[Case study]One kid’s recurrent fever due to flu

The patient is my youngest son, aged three, who has fever recently due to a widespread influenza outbreak in childcare. At the beginning of last week, the fever subsided after taking medication for one day, and at the end of this week, he had a slight cough, but we did not take special care of it and just let him stay as usual, and he took a lot of food in one party in the weekend. On Monday morning, he began to have a persistent high fever with a cough and no appetite. He refused to have his pulse checked and I just roughly felt the right Cun is big and the left pulse is taut, so I chose the prescription of Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang and Xiao Chai Hu Tang. However, in the evening, the high fever still did not subside, and considering that there was no stool for one day, I switched to the formula Sheng Jiang San. The next morning, the fever subsided with the discharge of sticky and smelly stool, and then his spirit returned to normal as if he had recovered from the disease. Therefore, he continued to take only light doses of Baohe Pill. However, in the evening his body temperature raised up again. this time he did not resist checking his pulse. His both pulses were floating, tight and restless. Thus I realized it was more like Daqinglong syndrome. He took the medicine overnight.  The next day, the fever subsided and he was sent to childcare. After returning home, everything was as usual, with no more fever. Although there is residual heat left, the momentum has weakened.

Looking back on this case,  one important factor in the recurrence of fever is “food stagnation”, that is to say, after getting well from the cold, and immediately eating too much food, once the child has taken too much food, it is easy to cause a recurrence of fever. In TCM, we call it a “Shi Fu” disease.