Fever
UK sources of information and / or support
Patient UK (this website)
Has an information leaflet on fever in children.
Feverish illness in children
A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Feverish illness in children.
Further sources / more detailed information
Some non-UK sites
The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.
- Non-UK disease / illness sites
- Non-UK self-help / support group sites
More detailed medical information
The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.
- PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
- Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
- Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
- Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
- Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
- Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.
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Related pages in Patient UK
Health Topic information leaflets related to this topic (^ top of page)
Febrile Seizure (Febrile Convulsion)
Fever (High Temperature) in ChildrenPatientPlus articles related to this topic (^ top of page)
Fever and Night Sweats
Heat Related Illness
Pyrexia of Unknown Origin (PUO)
The Ill and Feverish ChildUK guidelines related to this topic (^ top of page)
Guidelines on FeverLinks to other selected websites related to this topic (^ top of page)
Temperature (High)Patient UK Newspaper (^ top of page)
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