Charting Those Fever Symptoms

Fever as a symptom is an important clue to reach to a diagnoses in any illness.

- Dr. Bijal Shrivastava

A five-year-old girl suffering from a seven-day fever, who was under a course of different fever reducing drugs at the regular six-hour interval but without measuring it, came in for a check-up. The medications served to reduce the fever and this led her parents to think that she was alright, as there was no fever, further delaying their visit to the clinic. When she finally came to us after a week, the infection had increased and she was diagnosed with pneumonia. Needless to say, she required to be hospitalised.