My 7 year old son has had a constant virus since the middle of January. It consists of severe headache, fever (100-102), sore throat, vomiting and fatigue. He has seen his pediatrician multiple times and has been tested for strep each time. The strep test has been negative each time. He recently had blood tests conducted and all of the results came back normal. The symptoms seem to get better after 4-5 days and then 2 weeks later he has them all over again. I am extremely concerned and not sure what more to do.
HI...by what you quote I feel that your son might be having a recurrent viral illness. To relieve your distress I will tell you how a viral illness behaves. So that you will be in a better position to understand. Fever of few days without any localizing signs could as well a viral illness. Usually rather than fever, what is more important is the activity of the child, in between 2 fever episodes on the same day. If the kid is active and playing around when there is no fever, it is probably viral illness and it doesn't require antibiotics at all. Once viral fever comes it will there for 4-7 days. So do not worry about duration if the kid is active. Regards - 