Fever

The AAP issued guidance on evaluating and managing fevers in infants aged 8 to 60 days who have a temperature at or above 100.4°F but appear otherwise healthy.

A 10-year-old girl is brought to your clinic by her mother, complaining of left-sided facial swelling with mild-to-moderate pain.

Children infected with SARS-CoV-2 may not show typical symptoms such as fever, cough or dyspnea, according to a retrospective cohort study of more than 12,000 pediatric COVID-19 patients in the United States.

A previously healthy 10-month-old male is taken to the local ED with fever and congestion for 3 days. He is diagnosed with an upper respiratory tract infection, or URI, and treated symptomatically without antimicrobials.

Researchers uncovered what they called “an enormous burden of dengue fever among children with undifferentiated febrile illness in Kenya.”

A previously healthy 5-year-old female presented for evaluation after 3 weeks of intermittent fever and worsening cough. The history of this illness began 23 days earlier.

Prolonged fever lasting more than 7 days after illness onset can help physicians identify patients at high risk for adverse outcomes from COVID-19, according to a study.

A previously healthy 6-year-old female presents to your clinic for evaluation of a left axillary lump and subjective fever.

Almost 90% of patients who recovered from COVID-19 reported at least one persistent symptom, according to a study of 143 patients published in JAMA.

Treatment with canakinumab resulted in rapid, sustained improvements in active systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis, regardless of whether the patient had a fever at initiation, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.