Quick HELP, please- Fever after tonsillectomy

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HI,

My son just had his tonsillectomy on Tues. (4 days post-op now) and

just spiked a fever. Seems to be a episode vs. infection as

his glands are swollen- usually it's his glands and enlarged tonsils

that give it away, but now he has no tonsils, so I have to go on the

glands. There's no sign of infection on observation.

Just put a call into the on-call resident at the hospital and waiting

to hear back to see if I'm allowed to give him Orapred during this

healing phase.

We can only allowed to give him Tylenol vs. Motrin/Naprosyn, not only

for fear of normal post-op bleeding, but also because he was recently

diagnosed with Von Willebrand's Disease (a bleeding disorder where he

can't stop bleedingg/ clot wekk on his own- kind of like Hemophilia,

but not nearly as bad).

Have any of your kids who had their tonsillectomies gotten fevers

right after surgery? Is that normal? Did the surgery " disturb "

things where it set him off?

Any help would be great. Not too happy about this.

Thanks,

Kathy

-Mom to ny- 5- Vienna, VA