A Study on Clinical Profile of Children with Fever more than 5-day Duration in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Tirupati
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2024-11
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International Research Organization for Life & Health Sciences
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Introduction: In children, fever is generally a sign of infection. Fever due to other causes including malignancy is rare. The prognosis for the most common forms of pediatric infections is usually excellent, but this is not the case for some bacterial infections and malignancies. Aims and Objectives: (1) Aims: To study the clinical profile of children with fever more than 5-day duration in children 1 month to 12 years of age. (2) Objectives: To document the clinical profile of children with fever more than 5-day duration. To document the outcome of children with fever more than 5-day duration. Materials and Methods: Study design: Prospective study. Setting: In-patients from a tertiary care hospital. Participants: 106 (mean age: 5.9 years) children between 1 month and 12 years with fever more than 5 days duration (fever – axillary temperature >99°F and oral temperature >100°F). Results: Among 106 children (57 males and 49 females), 83% had a fever for 6–10 days, 44.4% had vomiting, 41.5% had chills/rigors, 25.5% needed oxygen supplementation, 55.7% needed intravenous fluids, 30.2% had hospital stay >10 days, 59.4% had intensive care unit stay, 32.1% were diagnosed as scrub typhus/spotted fever; 91.5% improved, 3.8% died. Conclusion: Children with prolonged fever had overall better outcomes when brought earlier to the hospital setting. Most of the cases (91.5%) recovered without complications. Early and proper work-up and intervention improve the outcome in prolonged fevers.
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Fever, Infectious disease, Prolonged fever
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Babu AC, Kumar PM, Manohar B.. A Study on Clinical Profile of Children with Fever more than 5-day Duration in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Tirupati. International Journal of Scientific Study. 2024 Nov; 12(8): 36-41