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[|Human|] my two year old has a cold since monday accompanied by lack of appetite and intermintent stomach pains that seems to coincide with the intake of food AND sinus pain, body ache and a fever that lasted three days and returns occasionally the past two days
[|AI|]  Hi... Thank you for consulting in Chat Doctor. It seems your kid is going through a viral illness. Fever of few days without any localizing signs could as well a viral illness. Usually rather than fever, what is more important is the activity of the child, in between 2 fever episodes on the same day. If the kid is active and playing around when there is no fever, it is probably viral illness and it doesn't require antibiotics at all. Once viral fever comes it will there for 4-7 days. So do not worry about duration if the kid is active. Paracetamol can be given in the dose of 15 mg/kg/dose (maximum ceiling dose of 500 mg) every 4-6th hourly that too only if fever is more than 100F. I suggest not using combination medicines for fever, especially with Paracetamol. Regards -