Health & Fitness

Colorado's Dr. Dave Hnida Explains When To Worry About A Child's Fever

"Any fever in an infant, up to 3 months of age, always warrants a call to the pediatrician."

Children nationwide are being infected with the flu, RSV and COVID-19.
Children nationwide are being infected with the flu, RSV and COVID-19. (CBS)

With all the flu, RSV, and COVID going around (to say nothing of everyday respiratory viruses), the most obvious symptoms we see and hear include cough, congestion, and crud.

But hand in hand with these infections, or I should say hand to forehead, comes fever... a temperature that feels hotter than the surface of the sun. And for many parents, it's a high temperature in their kids that causes anxiety to skyrocket ... not so much the other stuff.

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