When your child is sick, it is often hard to tell the difference between the cold and flu. Here are a few easy tips:
Influenza
• Sudden onset of fever, chills, sore throat, cough, runny nose
• Child may also have headache, muscle aches, tiredness, nausea, vomiting
Cold
• Stuffy nose, sneezing, scratchy throat, hoarse voice, dry cough
• Child may have slight fever
• Child generally keeps up with usual activities
More important than the symptoms is how your child is acting. Take your child to the pediatrician if he/she is not acting normally (e.g., is very sleepy, has little energy to play, is irritable and cannot be comforted, is having trouble breathing, or is not drinking). Any child younger than three months who has a temperature greater than 100.4 should see a pediatrician.
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What other advice can you give for at what point you take your child to the doctor when they have a fever? My mother in law would take them to the doctor if they were a bit warm, but I don't think that ONLY a fever is a problem with no other symptoms and wouldn't talk my kid to the doctor.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your question, Darbie. I will answer it in Friday's post.
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