What to do if your child has repeated fever due to bacterial infection

When a child's immunity is low, bacteria can easily multiply in his body. After invading the body, pathogenic bacteria will produce metabolites and toxins, causing repeated bacterial infections and fever in children, which has an adverse effect on the child's physical health. Bacterial infection symptoms progress slowly, and parents need to be careful to distinguish them from viral infections. Common causes of bacterial infections include: poor immunity, colds, chills, malnutrition, etc. What should I do if my child has repeated fever due to bacterial infection?

What should I do if I have a fever due to bacterial infection?

1. Pay close attention to changes in your child's body temperature.

When a child has a fever, the most important thing is to quickly dissipate the heat from the child's body to prevent the body temperature from rising further. Therefore, be sure to let your children wear less clothes.

Physical cooling.

If the child's body temperature does not exceed 38.5, physical cooling is the safest way to reduce fever for children. Compared with antipyretic drugs, physical cooling has no side effects. Commonly used physical cooling methods include warm water bathing, hot water foot soaking, ice pack cold compress, alcohol wipe bath, etc. Medication to reduce fever.

If the child's temperature exceeds 38.5, it is best to use medication to reduce the temperature. Always keep antipyretic drugs at home or buy them at pharmacies or hospitals.

2. Use antibiotics.

It is recommended to go to the hospital for a blood test first to determine the cause before treatment. If it is a bacterial infection, you need to choose the right antibiotics and the treatment will be very effective. If it is a viral infection, you can take Isatis root granules, etc. Fevers caused by viral infections usually follow a certain pattern and will subside on their own after a certain period of time.

3. Drink plenty of water. Children with a fever must dissipate heat by sweating, which results in the consumption of a large amount of water. Therefore, what children need to replenish most during a fever is water rather than food.

4. When a child has a fever, his diet must be mainly liquid or semi-liquid, such as milk rice soup, milk powder, millet porridge, fresh juice, mung bean soup, etc.

The reasons why children have repeated fevers are that the inflammation is not controlled and the antibiotics used are inappropriate. Therefore, parents must report the situation to the doctor and adjust the antibiotics their children take according to the doctor's instructions.