“What is a high temperature for a 5 year old?”

Normal temperature is < 100.4F. Usually between 100.4 F to 102 F is low grade, 102-103.9 F is moderate, and > 104 F would be high fever. Fever makes us uncomfortable. However, finding out the reasons for the fever is more important. Children > 5 yo are at very low risk of febrile seizure. Fever does not cause brain damage but infection of the brain may. Please check with your friendly pediatrician.

Same as it is for anyone else. Fevers make you uncomfortable, but are helpful to the immune response to rid the body of infection.

104 to 105. It is not necessarily the fever height but how they are acting. If they have trouble breathing vomiting or actin different they need to be checked.