Reflux causing fevers?

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Kayleigh has gotten low grade fevers for almost a year now. No other symptom just a fever of usually 99.8 not much higher. They normally last a day or two then disappear for a week or two. She has had several different test to rule “things” out but we’ve found nothing. Her ped told me today that he feels it could just be related to her reflux. Since starting zegerid her reflux is under control so I’m confused. I asked him what he meant and he told me he really couldn’t give me a good answer. Just that since she’s working so hard to not reflux that it may be running her body down. I don’t feel that he was trying to brush me off I think he’s as confused as I am. Does anybody else have this difficulty with their toddler? She used to have a horrible immune system but lately it seems to have improved.

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i have never heard of reflux causing fevers. i dont really see how thats possible.
what i do know is that fevers are a symptom of something, whether it be an ear infection, a urinary tract infection, whatever.
i dont know, this might sound dumb, but maybe its something she is eating…like if she is allergic to it, maybe thats how her body reacts? i dont know im taking a guess….
good luck.

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Lynn, my sister’s little boy who is 6 months old gets unexplained low grade fevers all the time. She found out that Logan’s temp just runs higs, 99 instead of 98.5 most of the time. I found out that (like me) my older son’s temp runs “cold” 97.8 instead of 98.5, so that means when HE gets a 99 fever it’s really like getting a fever of 100, weird weird I know but the doc told both of us that 98.5 is the average norm but some people are always a bit above or below? Just throwing the idea out!-I found this out the hard way with Austin. When he had strep, his fever was only 101 but he was shivering, shaking and acting like it was like 103 or higher, the er docs were a bit flustered too, until they looked at his recordes from his doc and saw that his “well” temp was always in the 97.5-98.8 range…(then again my sister and I have found that our kids tend to have little “weirdness” like that!!!!)

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Yeah, I’m one of those whose temp is normally below 98 so when I get a fever of 100 or 101 I feel horrible.

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i know that teething can cause a low grade fever.. maybe she is just teething on and off ?

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Natalia-I know the reflux causing fevers idea seemed really way out but we can’t find anything else. Totally weird! She’s had CBC’s taken, UA’s and they’ve revealed nothing no UTI or virus the only thing we’ve found consistent is that her white blood cell count rises slightly compared to when she’s fever free. Her body is fighting something we just don’t know what. So confusing!!

Aidansmom-When she is feeling well her temp is the norm 98.5 so I don’t think she is one of the above/below types. When she gets these she gets very lethargic(for her), doesn’t eat and sleeps alot. How scary for you though that would be tough to convince somebody that your lo was really sick if their temp was only 100. I think that everybody has a bit of weirdness in them….. some just display it more than others. LOL

Lauren-I know she has all the teeth she will get for the next few years so I don’t think I can blame that. But thanks that would have been something I wouldn’t have thought about at this age.

Thanks everyone. Today was a fever free day so she got to go to the movies with her grandma and cousins! Yeah!! it gave mom and dad a chance to finish painting before company comes!

[Anonymous]

Our daughter’s thermometer runs high too after a really high temp last
year of about 105. It’s like it reset her normal temp about a
degree higher, which doesn’t help her problems… lol

It is worrisome, we thought for the longest time that she had a
systemic infection of some sort, however the doctors don’t and won’t
listen to us… so who knows?

Hugs,

Michelle

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My temp is always low…so is my mom’s. Maybe hers always runs higher than usual?

Addy got an unexplained fever of 102.3 when she was 5 weeks old and was hospitalized for 5 days running tests. They never figured it out.

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You know, I would really love to hear if you get this figured out. My daughter, who outgrew (mostly anyway) her reflux at 9 mo. tends to get unexplained low grade fevers too. I’ve never thought that it was related to her reflux, but now that you mention it, it does have me wondering.

I think she still does have some reflux flareups at times… she will complain of “throw up” in her mouth, she still gets hiccups a lot, sometimes wakes up screaming in the night not from a nightmare but is sitting up in bed. I’ve never noticed if the low grade fevers tend to center around these times, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

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Well 6 months later and it still is happening just not as often. She’s actually gone about 7 weeeks fever free. Just not lately, she is suffering from a sinus infection and bloody ears. UGH they are freaky looking!

We still haven’t found any reasons for these fevers when she has no symptoms of illness. I do notice a slight increase in her reflux but it is quite minimal. The only thing I can attribute to them is being too much on the go. She needs down time. So when they strike we just get extra rest and stay home as much as possible.

Naomi~ Nothing wakes me up faster than “I need a Tums!” in the middle of the night. Well except maybe the I need to go potty! yell! LOL

I’ve still not quite given up on finding a cause we just have stopped formal testing for it for now.

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Bless her little heart. Is she on any other Rx drugs? I know that with my toddler, he ran low-grade fevers, inlcuding flu-like symptoms when he was on singulair. It helped him a lot with his bronchial spasms and allergies at night, but we took him off of it b/c he had an awful temper on it, as well as the fevers, night wakings, night sweats and fevers/flu symptoms. Just thought I’d throw that out there. We were spinning our wheels trying to figure out what it was for a while.

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Yes she is on Zyrtec and Zegerid daily and Xopenox as needed. And we have come to the conclusion that for her when her reflux is acting up like when I tried to remove her morning dose she gets a low grade fever. She had one since Monday morning and I took it three times today and luckily it was only 99.1 at the highest so 3 day back on 2x a day meds and it’s going away. Fingers crossed anyways! That’s good information about the Singular as it may be our next allergy med. I’ll be thinking twice before agreeing to the switch. Thanks

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My older dd (non-refluxer) often has this too. Her base temperature is usually a bit higher, closer to 99 or a bit higher even, we found. They don’t know what causes it- she’s had testing done. She’s also prone to higher fevers. In my search to figure out what it was, I stumbled upon something called periodic fever syndrome, but it didn’t apply to our situation. I have never heard of reflux causing fevers, unless there’s aspiration or sinus/ear infections. You might want to get some bloodwork done if you haven’t already just to make sure everything looks good.

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I’ve spoke with her ped a lot about this because at first I really thought he was just blowing smoke. But he explained to me that her body fights so hard against refluxing that it causes her become run down and therefore she gets a fever as her body fights and recoups.

It sounded a whole lot clearer when her ped said it then when I try and explain it. LOL

She’s had bloodwork done during a fever and after, also they’ve done numerous UA’s. There is nothing they have ever found that would contradict this theory so I guess for the time being it sticks. Oh yeah we also did some xrays and it didn’t show any aspirations but I guess it always is a possibility.

I am going to check out the periodic fever syndrome and see if it applies to us. Thanks for the info. Maybe I can bring new info to her ped. He always loves that. ROTFLMAO He’s a good sport so I shouldn’t laugh too hard but he does have this eye roll when I talk about new things.

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