Been at the emergency roon all night....

[DaMulta]

Well my son(5 year old) had, had a bad fever eairly today of 103.8. But after a warm bath it went down to 101 and stayed there.


Well tonight right after I installed my new tubing I check it again and it was 105.5F:eek: and I could only get it down to 104 or so. So then it was off to the emergency room for hours apone hours. I swear those people just want you to leave:shadedshu


The funny part we went in at 10PM and left at 1AM with a temp of 99.....but I learned it wasent anything major and that you shouldnt really worry about a temp unless its 110F.

[JC316]

Well my son(5 year old) had, had a bad fever eairly today of 103.8. But after a warm bath it went down to 101 and stayed there.


Well tonight right after I installed my new tubing I check it again and it was 105.5F:eek: and I could only get it down to 104 or so. So then it was off to the emergency room for hours apone hours. I swear those people just want you to leave:shadedshu


The funny part we went in at 10PM and left at 1AM with a temp of 99.....but I learned it wasent anything major and that you shouldnt really worry about a temp unless its 110F.

Sorry to hear that. I hate hospitals and I can only imagine if I were a parent. Children can take a higher fever than adults anyway.

I personally can't stand the way they treat you in the emergency room, you could drop dead out there and they wouldn't care. I went in at 3pm, didn't get looked at till 5pm, and wound up having emergency surgery at 6am that following morning.

[W1zzard]

good to hear it's better now. and tbh i wouldnt give a shit if they say 110, 115, 120 or whatever is bad. when worried just go. you did the right thing.

[DaMulta]

Yea I think I did the right thing. I found out that he dosent have anything major, and that was a good thing to hear.

He starting to look really bad when we left.....scary stuff, and he is never ever sick. First time in over 1 year and a half.

[WhiteLotus]

the cure for most fevers/cold these days is rest - im sure he will be fine after a couple days in bed and lots of fluid.

[JrRacinFan]

Oh man, I hope he gets well soon!

Screw them doctor's, if you felt it was dire then it was! You are only trying to protect your family, and in which case would have been the only proper thing to do. :)

[KennyT772]

Past 110!? 107F is where brain damage starts and 115 is instant death... It's called death valley for a reason (summer temps hit 130F).

From Wikipedia
low grade: 38–39°C (100.4–102.2°F)
moderate: 39–40°C (102.2–104.0°F)
high-grade: 40–42°C (104.0–107.6°F)
hyperpyrexia: over 42°C (107.6°F)

[Ben Clarke]

low grade: 38–39°C (100.4–102.2°F)

lol, we all have a low-grade fever naturally :lol:

Amyway, glad to hear he's OK.

[KennyT772]

Based on the average body temp of 98.6 a low grade fever is considered 1.8F above your personal temp. If your normal body temp was 95F a low grade fever would be 96.8. Catch my drift? Personally my body temp is between 99.5-100.5 all the time, and my fevers are higher than that. I can't remember what the number was, because I havn't been sick in so long.

[Easy Rhino]

good to here your son is feeling better. im trying to remember the last time i had a fever. do adults even get fevers these days?

[JC316]

good to here your son is feeling better. im trying to remember the last time i had a fever. do adults even get fevers these days?

Depends on whats wrong with you. I always get a fever when I am sick. I regularly hit 102 when sick.

I hit 105.2*F once night, but that was due to infected intestines.

[hat]

Dude, better bet a better HSF for your son... :p
I had 106 once... bad, bad day

[DaMulta]

I hit 108 when I as a kid, and I remember it clearly....bad bad bad day.

My dad put me in a tub full of ice:(:(:(

Went to the doc and they gave me a shot of penicillin I believe, and the fever broke ASAP.



Yea 110 just sounds crazy, and I don't know why he told me that.

[DOM]

How much did you try to OC him lol j/k glad he's doing better :)

I dont think I ever gotten that high of a fever I never get sick that much

I guess all those times when I was younger playing mud war help my immunsystem :D

[Steevo]

Sorry to hear about that. But glad it turned out all right.




We had to take my son into the hospital once so far, nursemaids elbow. He pulled and twisted away from me and fell at the local video rental. It sounded much worse than it really was from what the doctor said. After the Two hour wait to see someone, even a nurse, it took all of 5 minutes to pop it back in place.

[Ben Clarke]

I went to hospital when I was 3, at about 3:00am in the morning. Had a really bad cough and it was keeping me and my parents awake so they took me to the hospital, I had to have an oxygen tank for 5 hours. The entire steam went smoky. Ah well, at least I had a book that taught me about colours. So I know how bad hospitals are. Glad he's doing better.

[Wile E]

I spiked a fever of 108F once. It was so bad I was hallucinating. I'm pretty sure the ice bath was real tho. lol

And I'm glad to hear your son is OK DaMulta. I have 3 children, and in your position, I would've done the same. My daughter recently spent 4 days in the hospital because she had a seizure out of nowhere. She wasn't feeling well for a few days, and had a mid-grade fever when it happened. They couldn't figure out what happened, but I figure it had something to do with the fever, as she never really gets them, even when she is sick. Never happened before, and so far hasn't happened again, and hopefully it stays that way. That was one of the scariest things I've been thru.

[niko084]

Hope everything is alright, sounds like it should be though.

I don't know exact numbers but I think its something around 107 for the average adult where you actually start to get permanent brain damage.

[Steevo]

I spiked a fever of 108F once. It was so bad I was hallucinating. I'm pretty sure the ice bath was real tho. lol

And I'm glad to hear your son is OK DaMulta. I have 3 children, and in your position, I would've done the same. My daughter recently spent 4 days in the hospital because she had a seizure out of nowhere. She wasn't feeling well for a few days, and had a mid-grade fever when it happened. They couldn't figure out what happened, but I figure it had something to do with the fever, as she never really gets them, even when she is sick. Never happened before, and so far hasn't happened again, and hopefully it stays that way. That was one of the scariest things I've been thru.




I have hallucinated from a fever once before. Very scary shit. I can remember it too.:eek:

[JC316]

I have hallucinated from a fever once before. Very scary shit. I can remember it too.:eek:


What were you hallucinating? I remember going loopy on morphine, freaky shit there, like being locked in 1408 :eek:

[Steevo]

That I was tiny and still in my bed, and some arsehjole was throwing things and it was hitting me all over and every time I tried to defend myself he started throwing more.




Apparently the hallucination was causing nerves to fire and thus the feelings of being hit by small objects.



Very strange. Almost like a dream.

[zekrahminator]

I remember, when I was a little boy (like 2 or 3 years old), hitting a fever of around 106. Scared the shit out of my parents, and I think I was hallucinating as well (either that or I was having freaky dreams). I remember being trapped in a big empty white space, and the white space was speaking to me, taunting me, tickling/torturing me, and I could not speak to the white space. Worst part was, the white space dreams didn't stop with my fever...I was dreaming about being trapped in that white space until I was 5/6 years old... that sucked.

Then again, I'm having trouble remembering anything before I was seven, so...I could be exaggerating.

[Thermopylae_480]

Well tonight right after I installed my new tubing I check it again and it was 105.5F:eek: and I could only get it down to 104 or so. So then it was off to the emergency room for hours apone hours. I swear those people just want you to leave:shadedshu


They do want you to leave. The longer you stay in a hospital the more likely you are to get a nosocomial infection. Many people die or become extremely ill from infections they receive in hospitals.