Dealing with infant fever - please share your experience

[megan2008]

sorry, I just read that they haven't identified the bacteria. basically, there is something causing the fever; could be viral or could be bacterial. If it is a virus, then anitbiotic will not make the sypmtoms go away and you just have to let you body fight it off. Basically, they are waiting to see if any bacteria will grow from the urine specimen and it can take a while for bacteria to show up. If he had a negative blood growth of bacteria, that is good, that means that (if there is bacteria causing the fever) it hasn't spread to the blood. Hope that helps.

 

[mscheerful]

When my son was 6 weeks old he had fever and we went to hospital and stayed there for 4 nights. The test came out that he had UTI so we went to have the tests done. I think it was 4 tests all together but after the 3rd test, the doctor told us that he did not need to do the last test because there is no relapse and only one episode of fever, that was when he was 6 weeks and no more when the 3rd test done, he was like 6-7 months old. Yes, he also had the meds for 21 days. The tests are all simple and nothing major, my baby was all right about it. My baby is now nearly 3, there is no relapse of UTI.