If your child has Fever please print and answer these questions before seeing your clinician:
1. How high was the fever? How was the temperature measured?
2. Since when was the fever? (Document duration of fever)
3. What is the pattern of the fever? ( persistent, progressively increasing, intermittent, etc.)
4. Are there other symptoms accompanying the fever? ( coughs, chills, runny nose etc.)
5. Was there ear ache, ear pulling, abdominal pain, diarrhea, joint pains, other systemic complaints?
6. Is there headache, neck rigidity, or behavioral changes?
7. Was the immunization complete?
8. Is the child taking any medications?
9. Has the child been exposed to someone sick in the family, in school, exposure to pets, ticks, travel outside?
10. Does the child have any other known illnesses
You child's clinician might ask more questions depending on your answers.