Just "tuned in to the silver list" and saw all these posts
about the recurring fever.
There is a specific tick borne illness called relapsing
fever. It's said to occur throughout the world except the
southwest Pacific. (Is that where Hawaii is?)
Anyway, migratory birds spread ticks, including infecting
ones just about anywhere in the world.
Apparently there is a blood test developed by the national
Institutes of Health's Rocky Mountain Laboratories that can
detect all 3 relapsing fever organisms if a blood specimen
is taken during acute episodes of the fever.
The symptoms generally occur 4 to 18 days after the tick
bite. From Karen Forschner's "Everything You Need to Know
about Lyme Disease and Other Tick-borne Illnesses:
"Onset of disease is characterized by a sudden
chill followed by a high fever and profuse sweating, giving
rise to the term 'shake, rattle and roll chills'.
Typically, bouts of fever (as high as 105ºF), last 2 to 9
days, followed by a week long period when the bacteria are
sequestered and there is no fever. This cycle generally
occurs from three to ten times, usually for progressively
shorter periods and with less severity."...
Now since you say the fevers occur every 4 weeks, not just a
week in between episodes, I would think to look into the
other tick-borne illnesses suggested by others: Lyme
disease (which generally follows a 4 week cycle),
ehrlichiosis (often symptoms are intermittent with periods
of no symptoms in between), & babesiosis (which can be
accompanied by periodic fever).
Please realize that blood tests for Lyme disease may be
falsely negative despite presence of infection.
It is understandable that your doctor is stumped, but
obviously some kind of infection is going on in cycles.
When I was a kid, we had something called the "Echo Virus"
which seemed to come back every two or 3 weeks for several
times. You know, to be honest, I now wonder if that could
have been unidentified mycoplasma infection. That's one
infection that can drag a person down fast.
Anyway, I hope your doctor will be "open minded" and
consider look into these tick borne illnesses as a possible
explanation for your child's recurring fevers. The
reference to Dr. Joseph Burrascano's Guidelines is possibly
the best available information for everyone. Somebody
already gave the link to it; the page I access the link from
is the Lyme Disease organization from New Jersey,
http://www.lymenet.org .
The book I mentioned above is an excellent resource
regarding tick-borne illnesses. I hope I didn't repeat here
too much of what others have said, but wholly agree your
child ought to be examined for these kinds of bacterial
infections. You might also try fielding your question at
news:sci.med.diseases.lyme . That newsgroup addresses all
tickborne illnesses, not just Lyme disease.
Sincerely,
Nancy B.
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-----Original Message-----
From: lm...@aol.com <lm...@aol.com>
To: silver-list@eskimo.com <silver-list@eskimo.com>
Date: Thursday, August 06, 1998 3:18 PM
Subject: Fever
>Aloha list! I was just refereed to this list by a nice
concerned person.
>I have a 3 yrs old son, Kanoe...whom has had an unexplained
fever for the past
>21 Months with *NO* other symptoms! This fever comes every
4 weeks and last
>for about 4-7 days at about 103-104! We have been to every
DR and he has been
>examined from Head to Toe and have not found a thing! We
have exhausted all of
>our resources and are now being refereed to DR Steihms at
UCLA. We live in
>Hawaii...if anybody has any suggestions we welcome them!
Being told at this
>point now that the DR's and their Specialist can't
diagnosis Kanoe that
>hopefully he'll grow out of them does not sit comfortable
with ME!!!!!! Thank
>You
>
>
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