My 12 year old son has ran a high fever in the evening for three days now. No other symptoms, no complaints.?

Question

The fever goes away after I give him Motrin and is gone til the next evening. He has no symptoms of anything, just the fever. What could this be?

Answer 1

Sometimes a viral fever called 5th disease presents like this and ends with a fine rash over the trunk and extremities just as the fever breaks and the person feels fine. It may not be measles, German measles, chicken pox, or scarlet fever, all of which have distguishing characteristics in onset of fever, rash and other signs and symptoms.

It is called 5th disease because is typically is one of the childhood diseases where fever and rash is found, but it is usually the fifth or last one to happen.

Answer 2

chances are he is battling an infection could possibly coming down with chicken pox, measles or mumps, keep an eye on him give him something to take down the fever and don't let him bundle up, to bundle up makes it worse to get rid of.