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Mar 13, 2023 · Recurrent fever syndromes typically (but not always) start when your child is a baby or toddler. Your child will experience episodes, or attacks, that cause fevers and other symptoms. Children may not have symptoms between episodes.
Sep 22, 2015 · September 22, 2015. DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Every few weeks my toddler will develop a fever that lasts a couple of days but then goes away. Other than the fever, she doesn’t have any other symptoms. Could it be periodic fever syndrome? How is that diagnosed, and is treatment for it different than treating a “normal” fever in kids?
To provide an approach to recurrent fever in childhood, explain when infections, malignancies, and immunodeficiencies can be excluded, and describe the features of periodic fever and other autoinflammatory syndromes.
- Gordon S Soon, Ronald M Laxer
- Can Fam Physician. 2017 Oct; 63(10): 756-762.
- 2017
- 2017/10
Feb 15, 2003 · Recurrent fevers are defined as three or more febrile episodes in a six-month period, occurring at least seven days apart, with no causative medical illness. These episodes can occur at regular...
Mar 25, 2016 · After excluding the most common etiologies, which include the consecutive occurrence of independent uncomplicated infections, a wide range of possible causes are considered. This article summarizes infectious and noninfectious causes of recurrent fever in pediatric patients.
- Sofia Torreggiani, Giovanni Filocamo, Susanna Esposito
- 2016
Children with periodic fever syndrome have recurrent fevers that usually last the same amount of time and are accompanied by the same or similar symptoms with each episode of fever. Those symptoms include swelling, joint pain, sores in the mouth or a rash.
Causes of fever ( see Table: Some Common Causes of Fever in Children) differ based on whether the fever is acute (≤ 14 days ), acute recurrent or periodic (episodic fever separated by afebrile periods), or chronic (> 14 days), which is more commonly referred to as fever of unknown origin (FUO).
