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Can an anxiety attack bring on a high fever?
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 282628" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Yes. difficult child 3 still gets fever when his anxiety isan issue. We went for years, letting him off school if he had a fever. He would want to go to school but be vomiting. So when Icheckedhis temp and found a fever, I made the call to keep him home. Ofcourse the vomiting and fever wouldresolve but we'd let him stay home. THen after him being well all the rest of the day, next morning - vomiting andfever again. Itwould go on all week, he would be well most of the weekend (except when the subject of school came up) then Monday morning - vomiting and fever again. Or he might get to school and I would get a call to come fetch him, he was vomiting and had a fever.</p><p></p><p>He lost over half of an entire school year, spread over the year, because of this. His teacher WOULD NOT let us even suggest anxiety as a possible cause. It was at the end of the school year when a doctor finally said to us, "We've ruled out all other possibilities. Why has severe anxiety not been considered? It is all tat is left."</p><p>WHen I explained about the teacher's insistence (and how she 'knew' about it form her own experience with her daughter, who had food allergy problems) as well as the fever and vomiting, the doctor said that difficult child 3's anxiety was so extreme that it was causing the fever and vomiting directly. He had made himself physically ill, even though it was not deliberate, difficult child 3 wasn't even aware he was doing it to himself. It also didn't help difficult child 3 to have heard his teacher repeatedly insisting that we find what the physical cause was.</p><p></p><p>We've observed this since then too, although he is getting better at managing his anxiety.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 282628, member: 1991"] Yes. difficult child 3 still gets fever when his anxiety isan issue. We went for years, letting him off school if he had a fever. He would want to go to school but be vomiting. So when Icheckedhis temp and found a fever, I made the call to keep him home. Ofcourse the vomiting and fever wouldresolve but we'd let him stay home. THen after him being well all the rest of the day, next morning - vomiting andfever again. Itwould go on all week, he would be well most of the weekend (except when the subject of school came up) then Monday morning - vomiting and fever again. Or he might get to school and I would get a call to come fetch him, he was vomiting and had a fever. He lost over half of an entire school year, spread over the year, because of this. His teacher WOULD NOT let us even suggest anxiety as a possible cause. It was at the end of the school year when a doctor finally said to us, "We've ruled out all other possibilities. Why has severe anxiety not been considered? It is all tat is left." WHen I explained about the teacher's insistence (and how she 'knew' about it form her own experience with her daughter, who had food allergy problems) as well as the fever and vomiting, the doctor said that difficult child 3's anxiety was so extreme that it was causing the fever and vomiting directly. He had made himself physically ill, even though it was not deliberate, difficult child 3 wasn't even aware he was doing it to himself. It also didn't help difficult child 3 to have heard his teacher repeatedly insisting that we find what the physical cause was. We've observed this since then too, although he is getting better at managing his anxiety. Marg [/QUOTE]
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