Tell me your baby’s age and temperature, and I’ll show you — in one line you can’t misread — whether this is an emergency, a see-a-doctor-today, or a watch-closely-at-home. This helps you decide what to do. It can’t examine your baby.
If your baby is hard to wake, floppy, struggling to breathe, has blue or very pale skin, a rash that doesn’t fade when you press it, or a fit — call 000 now. Don’t use this tool first.
This needs urgent help right now.
From what you’ve described, this can be a sign of something serious in a baby. Call 000, or go to your nearest emergency department now. Tell them your baby’s age and that they have a fever.
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This helps you decide what to do — it can’t examine your baby. If you think this is urgent, call 000 or go to emergency now.
Dr HB Lo · Integrative GP
Baby fever: when to worry · generated
General information to help you decide what to do. Not medical advice, and not an emergency service. If you’re worried your baby is seriously unwell, call 000 — don’t wait.
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Your baby
What this means
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EMERGENCY — 000 / ED now
Go straight to emergency, or call 000.
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SEE A DOCTOR TODAY
Your GP today, or after-hours / Nurse-on-Call if your GP is closed.
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WATCH CLOSELY AT HOME
Keep a close eye — and see a doctor today if anything changes.
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Call 000 now — whatever the age
These signs mean call 000 straight away, at any age:
Hard to wake, drowsy or floppy
Trouble breathing, breathing fast, or grunting
A rash that doesn’t fade when you press a glass on it
Your baby’s age, the fever, and the signs to watch — on one page to show at the emergency department or send to whoever’s with you.
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Once things have settled: the Post-Consult Debrief turns what the ED or your GP told you into a plan you’ll still have next week — and the Baby & toddler illness questions kit walks you through fever, rashes, and breathing worries by age.
General information — not a substitute for seeing someone.