Do your kids get weird, when they've got a fever?

[bellebud]

Motrin IS ibuprofen, not acetaminophen. It's just another brand name for ibuprofen, like Advil. I do agree with you on the acetaminophen, it's very difficult on the liver, and we don't use it either

not to be picky - but isn't that what I said? I re-read my post - it's clear in my head, but sometimes that doesn't mean it's clear 'outside' of my head (LOL).

 

[Magpie]

Motrin IS ibuprofen, not acetaminophen. It's just another brand name for ibuprofen, like Advil. I do agree with you on the acetaminophen, it's very difficult on the liver, and we don't use it either.

The the OP, I really do think it is time to take him to the doctor, I'm not one to rush in, but a recurrent fever like that along with a cough is a sign of a bacterial infection. I would get him checked out. So the walls will stop moving for him, at least.

Yeah... I'm going to take him to the clinic tomorrow morning. His fever's back, and high, despite having taken 400mg of Ibu an hour ago, and he's got "water in his ear and it hurts" according to him.

I think we're looking at a bacterial ear infection, which has probably been percolating unknown to him for awhile.

(He wouldn't necessarily notice a plugged up ear as he doesn't have the greatest hearing anyway.)

 

[dchi]

Yes my daughter acted really bizarre with a fever she had when she was 6 years old. She was in the living room and looked out towards the family room and started talking towards the room and said, he needs to stop bouncing that ball and wearing those wierd pants. There was no one in that room. Needless to say I took her to the Dr's first thing in the morning and her Dr diagnosed her with pnemonia. That was 21 years ago. Nothing like it ever happened again.

 

[charming23]

I know I am really sick with a high fever when I get that way. Anything over 100 degrees and I say things that make no sense at all. Although that seems to be subsiding and I now just have really vivid dreams/nightmares instead.

 

[grafxgirl]

All those drugs can cause bleeding ulcers or tears in the stomach because they are all a type of medicine called Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS). The only one not an NSAID is acetaminophen, but it can also cause liver damage and stomach bleeding.

"There are some 20 traditional nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDs, including aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil and Motrin), naproxen (Aleve), indomethacin (Indocin), and piroxicam (Feldene).

These drugs can bother the GI tract in a number of different ways, says Robert Hoffman, MD, chief of rheumatology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. "Gastritis, esophageal reflux disease [heartburn or GERD], and bleeding ulcers are all problems that can develop from NSAIDs."

 

[luvsJack]

When oldest ds was under 2, he called ants "bite yous" (from us telling him "those will bite you") He was sick with an ear infection and his fever went up during the night. He woke up in his crib around 2 AM SCREAMING for me and saying "bite yous, bite yous, bite yous!" Scared me to death! I ran and got him and took him to my bed which settled him some but he would still say "SEE MOMMA! BITE YOU!" and point. It was a loooonnnngg night.

The next morning when I called the doc, he said it could have been the fever or it could have been the antihistimine he was taking.

 

[bumbershoot]

Do any of you have kids who do this when they're sick?

Not my son, but I do it. I can go VERY hallucinatey when I'm fevering. I find it fun.

And because I'm already messed up in my head because of the fever, I do NOT put drugs into my system to make it worse. One 200mg pill of ibuprofen can make me stoned...during one period of my life I was prescribed 600mg pills, and it made me hallucinate like nothing ever did before. I was also being given oxycodone which gave me cotton mouth...nothing like hallucinating that the baby is a robot and needs its back opened to change batteries, but not be able to speak to ask your husband if that sounds right....

If I need to bring down my fever, I take a tepid bath, I do NOT medicate, because the combo can get very frightening! I do the same with DS.

A personal friend who is a chemist who 'makes' these drugs told me that Tylenol (acetaminophen) is actually SO bad for us. He will never allow it in his house. It was actually grandfathered in to be allowed to still be on the shelves... if it were made today, it wouldn't get through the testing.

Fascinating. I only rarely took acetominophen until I was pregnant and had muscle and bone aches so bad that I did feel the need to take drugs for it...and I still have weird things going on almost 7 years later that I link back to the acetominophen.

not to be picky - but isn't that what I said? I re-read my post - it's clear in my head, but sometimes that doesn't mean it's clear 'outside' of my head (LOL).

I think it was the last part. The sentences sounded like they were going in the direction of "the hospital uses ibuprofen", but you were actually saying that they use acetominophen despite its problems... If you're thinking that the paragraph is going to end with the hospital using ibuprofen, the sentence you used sounds opposite of what it seems you meant:

"And it's funny that it's what all the hospitals around here use, not motrin."

 

[HeatherH]

not to be picky - but isn't that what I said? I re-read my post - it's clear in my head, but sometimes that doesn't mean it's clear 'outside' of my head (LOL).

You know what, my bad, I misread what you said! When you said "motrin/tyelnol" recall I thought you were lumping them together as the same drug. And I never heard that brand-name Motrin was recalled? Maybe because I always buy generic. And that last sentence about the hospital was confusing too. Sorry about that!

And to the OP, glad you are getting your son in, I think you're right about the ear infection. Hope he feels better soon!

 

[dchi]

Please let us know what his Dr says.

 

[Magpie]

Please let us know what his Dr says.

Oops, sorry I'm late!

Yes, it was an ear infection - sort of! Apparently the ear he said hurt, wasn't the ear that looked red. It was the other ear.

The doctor hemmed and hawed and finally agreed to put him on some antibiotics. He's been on them for the last several days - and he's stopped with the fevers!

It was a long illness, though, and now his phys-ed teacher is saying he's a few pounds underweight (I guess he wasn't eating much). My son is thrilled, because underweight kids in this family get whole milk. He ran right off to the store and bought... goat's milk! Weird kid. But he's drinking it, and he's happy and healthy, so that's all that counts.