Medindia » Medical Education » Distance Education » Introduction
 FEVER IN CHILDREN
.Introduction
.Thermoregulation in children
.Thermoregulation in neonates
.Recording the body temperature
.Sterilization of thermometer
.Pattern recognition
.Clinical approach to a child with fever
.Rational Therapy for control of Fever
.Fever in children commonly encountered problems
.Steroids not indicated in undiagnosed fever
 Pharma
 CME Lessons
FEVER IN CHILDREN

Introduction

Fever is a cardinal features of illness. It represents the chief complaint in nearly 30% of visits to those who provide health care for children. Fever in children can be categorized as,


a) fever of short duration with localizing signs, for which diagnosis can be established by clinical history and physical examination,

b) fever without localizing signs, for which a history and physical examination do not suggest a diagnosis but laboratory tests may establish an etiology

c) fever of unknown origin which is less common but is a source of major concern for the patients, parents, and the health care providers.



Comment & Contribute
Comments should be on the topic and should not be abusive. Comments are normally moderated and are reviewed after they are posted.
* Your comment can be maximum of 2500 characters
I agree to the terms and conditions
If you have a question about health related issues, you can now post it in our Ask An Expert section on our community website Medwonders.com and get answers from our panel of experts.
Member Comments ( 1 )
i dunno what to do my son is 6yrs and he has fever with headache,stomach ache,chest pain and frequent cold and barking cough on geting tests done his WBC and ESR is high and gastrin level is high have given a course of antibiotics but to no relief

(Posted by eshan, India Date : 9/26/2009 )