Temp and Heart Racing

I would get her checked for a bladder infection. We had a fever with our youngest when she was 10 months old that was only a fever. It lasted a week and while I chalked it up to teething it turned out to be a bladder infection. I took her in and had her on meds, they were the wrong ones for her (a fluke problem) and didn't work and she wound up with a kidney infection and septicemia, serious stuff that had us in the hospital for 9 days. Our pediatrician said that some bladder infections show no other symptoms but the fever.

Please don't leave it, she needs to be checked out by someone. My daughter has had to have multiple tests since because this could have caused perminant damage to her kidneys.

Let us know how it goes.

ps. As far as I know heartrate does increase with a fever because your body is working hard to fight the infections.

While it is highly unlikely (I don't say any of this to scare you), it sounds very similar to my friend's little girl. She is four years old now and has recently been diagnosed with period fever. It took them years to figure out why she continued to get fevers but wasn't really 'sick' per se. The doctors couldn't even figure it out for a long time. It was her mother who did months of research who finally came across it and suggested it to the millionth doctor they had taken her to. Then they finally diagnosed her. While there is no cure, she is now on medication that helps control all the symptoms. As I said before, it is highly unlikely and it is a very rare condition, but I thought I would get it out there just in case. I don't want anyone else to go through the same thing my friend had to go through so I thought I would pass it along. Here is a link with more info if you are interested:

http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/periodic_fever_sy...
Her daughter has the PFAPA type.

I hope she feels better soon and that you can get everything figured out quickly!! Good luck!

You NEED to take her to the Doctor.
This has gone on for too long.

If anything, call your previous Doctor and tell him/her.. and see what they recommend...

I would call the Dr if this is a regular occurrence. Arrhythmia is not something to mess around with. Yes a fever will cause an increased heart rate but it should not cause her heart to race.

Heart rate can increase with fever. I don't think the issue is the heart rate, although that certainly is scary and can be dangerous if you don't find a solution.

The real issue is that your daughter has unexplained fevers. Fever indicates infection. So, I would think you would need to find out where the infection is and then figure out how to fight it / let it run it's course etc.

What is her regular resting heart rate? I think for kids the norm is like 70-110. I would think as long as it's not over 130 or so with fever/exercise/emotion I would say you don't need to go to the ER, but I would definitely go to a walk-in clinic (even CVS/Walgreens clinic) to give you some insight on at what pulse you need to be concerned. In the meantime I would work pretty hard on getting a new Dr in the area!

Sometimes your insurance will have a 24 hour nurse help line where you can call and ask questions. You might want to take her pulse and then call that # if you have that available.

Fever does cause our heart to beat faster. Count the beats and call the advice nurse at the hospital ER. How old is your daughter? The smaller the body, the faster the heart beats normally and thus faster yet with a fever.

Because she has no symptoms except for the fever and faster heart rate, I suggest that she is OK. An exceptionally high and unhealthy heart rate causes the person to be weak, shaky, and unable to function. I suggest that she's now noticing the difference because she is older and in general more aware.

But, call the advice nurse, so that you can be sure she's OK. We don't know enough about your daughter and her health to be able to do more than make suggestions.