My wofe is 26weeks pregnant, she has got fever since morning, now the temperature is very high and she is having very bad headache, she had taken a paracetamol 500mg as prescribed by her doctor, but no effect, its been more than 8 hours now, what to do?
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If fever not subsided then this requires some blood investigations to find out the cause.
In pregnancy randomly medicine prescription may be harmfull.
Please do CBC; PS for MP; WIDAL FOR TITRE; URINE R&M.
You can administer the medication again at an 8 hour interval, you can do tepid sponging. The fever should be recorded at regular intervals and written on a diary so that the character and trend of the fever can be recorded. These following steps may help:
- Avoid cold food and water, preferably have hot food and water
- Don't skip meals have a liquid diet containing soups and progressively increase to solid diet as per how you can tolerate.
- Have food rich in vitamin C such as oranges to help build immunity.
- Drink plenty of fluids, drink 3 liters of water per day
- Do salt water gargling with lukewarm water thrice a day
- Do steam inhalation (plain steam) thrice a day and apply vaporub over your chest and nose
- Maintain good personal hygiene
- Rest plenty, body heals while at rest
If the condition persists or worsens you should meet the treating OBGYN at the earliest.
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