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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hepatitis A? Hope they figure out whatever it is soon, OP. There are so many possibilities in India. Glad you are at the hospital and being taken seriously.[/quote]

I had Hep A years ago and don't remember fever and chills as OP is reporting.  Google tells me there can be a low grade fever, which is between 98.6 and 100.4. Since she has a fever of 102, I am thinking it is something else.  Malaria would seem a good guess, though I hope for Op's sake it is not.[/quote]

Between 98.6 and 100.4 is just normal body temperature.  A low grade fever is over 100.4, up to 101.5- 102 or so. [/quote]

Healthline disagrees with you.

https://www.healthline.com/health/persistent-low-grade-fever

Emedicine puts a low grade fever at between 100 t0 101.  Fevers is this range can usually be ignored, but if they persist for days they should be investigated. 101 to 104 is an intermediate grade fever.  Over that is high grade.

https://www.emedicinehealth.com/fever_in_adults/article_em.htm#what_temperature_is_a_high_fever[/quote]

100.4-101.5 is not that different from 100-101.  We're just arguing semantics.  My point was that "anything over 98.6 is considered a fever!" is erroneous, and results in people dragging their healthy kids into the doctor because "they had a fever of 99.0 this morning!" which is not, by anyone's definition, a fever.  That's all I meant. [/quote]

PP. I agree with not dragging kids into the doctor with low fevers or even intermediate grade fevers.  I have a child with an autoimmune disorder, however, and low grade fevers have meaning in that context.  If a fever is over 101 then the cause is likely other than from the autoimmune disorder.[/quote]

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