My daughter (12 years) is suffering from fever (100 - 101 +) (with sore throat and running nose) for last 3 days, though fever comes down with paracetamol and she is already on antibiotic (clarithromycin - 500 mg twice a day) still fever comes back after every six hours, unable to decide on next course of action, please advise
Hi, This is an upper respiratory infection / pharyngitis. It takes about 48-72 hours after starting antibiotics to see the response. So you can wait till then provided she is not very lethargic and taking food as usual. Give paracetamol every 6 hours for initial two days, Chat Doctor. If not coming down by 48-72 hours, kindly take her back to doctor for reviewing the diagnosis, or changing the antibiotics. Hope I have answered your question. Let me know if I can assist you further. 