Has anyone ever heard of a Fever Virus?
By tonika1980
@tonika1980 (155)
United States
October 1, 2009 12:16pm CST
My 6 year old daughter started running a fever Monday evening. She had no other symptoms, which kind of scared me, so I took her to see her doctor on Tuesday. They did a Strep test, and checked her all over, to tell me nothing more than she has a Fever Virus. I was told she will run a high fever for 3-5 days, most likely with no other symptoms. If she isn't better by Monday I am to take her back in to have blood work done. Well, she has indeed kept a high fever. Left unchecked it steadily rises. The only break she gets is when I am keeping the medicines down her. It scares me though, because I have always heard that fevers are your body's way of fighting off infection or sickness. Which leaves me to wonder...why the fever. I have never in my life heard of a "Fever Virus". Has anyone heard of it, or was that the doctor's way of copping out of giving a true diagnosis?
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5 responses
@reneh2o (87)
• United States
4 Oct 09
So sorry you are going through this..if she has had a fever that long it definitely seems like something other than the flu..I know what you mean about getting one sickness and on to another..It feels like we have been dealing with the same thing..
As soon as you feel a sickness coming on..eat a crushed raw garlic clove with some juice a couple times a day until symptoms subside..that along with grapefruit seed extract pillls is how I have been staying healthy.
@tonika1980 (155)
• United States
5 Oct 09
We eat muscadines and drink muscadine juice. As long as we catch the sickness in it's early stages we can keep from getting too sick. Unfortunately, my Strep hit all at once, with no warning, so that plan didn't work. I'll have to try the garlic, though. Anything to keep us out of the doctor's office.
@tonika1980 (155)
• United States
4 Oct 09
They did a flu test, but I am not sure if it was a swine flu test. After 6 days of non-stop fever, it has finally gotten down to the point where it isn't getting above 101. I am hoping that she loses the fever completely soon so that she can go back to school. She's missed a whole week due to it. I should be getting the results from her urine and blood tests tomorrow. Hopefully I will be told that there is nothing bad wrong with her! Unfortunately, though, I have come down with what looks to be Strep, so we are going to have a whole new line of sickness to fight off. If it didn't hurt so bad, I would scream!
@anashero (1)
• United States
2 Oct 09
I really think that if you keep her on meds like motrin or tylenol for a week she will get better. virus' cant be killed by anything that we can throw at it, so standard procedure is to treat the symptoms but if the only symptoms that a patient has is the fever than you treat that with a fever reducer. i think what the dr did was a quick shot to see if that would work (to see if the virus would run its course in a couple of days then go away) if not then he will probably bring you back and do some blood work to see if the lab can id it.
chances are with kids that she caught something and just may not be showing any symptoms, more than like with a low grade fever. was it under 102.0? kids have a high tolerance for these type of things which is why they dont crash until they hit around 104.0.
@tonika1980 (155)
• United States
3 Oct 09
After having given her the fever reducers all week, they are not working so well anymore. If it were a low grade fever I might not be so concerned, but it's like there is no cap on how high it will go. She got up to 104.5 today in just an hours time. It takes a while for the medicine to help any at all, and as soon as four hours have passed, up goes the temp! I'm just hoping this all works out and she is better by Monday. I hate that she is having to miss so much school.
@ladym33 (10979)
• United States
11 Oct 09
No I have not heard of that, but the last time my son had the flu he got a really bad fever. It was terrible very scary. I had to go in to his room and make sure he was constantly drinking so he did not get over heated and dehydrated and I had kept a cold rag on his head that I had to constantly rewet with cold water to help keep his fever down, it took several days for the fever to break it was quite scary.
@ProudMommy22 (705)
• United States
2 Oct 09
My Oldest Boy had a fever like that however it did last a week...They didnt tell me nothing but other than it was ajust a fever and it would go away needless to say it was not just a fever. I ended up having to take him to the hospital and he had scarlet fever not just a random fever.I was told Scarlet fever is not a good thing and its very bad to have...Its crazy though. However, Not i dont trust his doctors if i know something is not right and they tell me its no big deal i will get a second opinion. My Cusion also had the same problem with her little boy they told her he had a cold and she took him to the hospital and he had pneumonia...So I guess they could be right but if you are worried id get a second opinion.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
1 Oct 09
Well, to me it sounds like the doctor's way of copping out. I know that last year when my daughter wasn't feeling well and I took her to the doctor's office, they told me just that she had a virus. They weren't able to give a true diagnosis for the virus that she had. I was satisfied with that because she started to feel better after a couple of days.
A fever is the body's way of showing that it is fighting an infection of some kind, so I don't know how there could be a virus that simply showed the only symptom as being a fever. I believe there is something underlying that the doctor didn't find at the initial appointment.
@tonika1980 (155)
• United States
1 Oct 09
That's what I thought. If she doesn't get any better over the weekend, she will be back at the doctor, and I will be requesting every possible test to be run on her. It scares me to think that there could be something bad wrong with her, and I am unable to do anything to really help. Oh, sure, I can keep poking Tyelenol and Motrin down her, but that just eases the fever for 3-4 hours. Then it is all back again, and I have to go through the routine all over. It is getting really old.
I have always had trouble with doctor, though. One of my girls had a rash all over her body, so I took her in to see the doc. We were referred to a dermatologist. And all I got out of those trips was to be told she had a skin irritation. My husband has horrible pains in his side, goes to the doctor, and thousands of dollars later is told that he is perfectly fine. That's a bunch a bull! If a pain is bad enough to make a grown man tear up, there is something wrong! If there was a way for me to diagnose my family myself, I would. At least then I would know they were actually being taken care of!
