What to do if your baby has repeated fever

It is a common situation for babies to have repeated fevers. The main reason for this situation is that babies have relatively low body resistance and poor adaptability to the external environment. They are very easy to be infected by viruses and cause diseases. Moreover, even after taking measures to reduce the fever, the fever will recur. So what should we do when the child has recurring fever?

Why do children have recurring fevers?

The main reason why children have repeated fevers is that they have poor ability to adapt to the external environment and their immune system has not yet fully developed. The slightest discomfort can easily cause symptoms, or their body temperature may rise again quickly after taking medicine to reduce the fever.

The main causes of fever are:

The invasion of bacteria and viruses causes respiratory and gastrointestinal infections, leading to fever. Parents should be especially reminded that if their child has a fever for more than three consecutive days without improvement or if the baby has a high fever or convulsions, they should seek medical attention in time to identify the cause and provide symptomatic treatment.

Because children have poor ability to adapt to the external environment and their immune systems are not yet fully developed, any discomfort can easily lead to fever symptoms, or their body temperature may rise again quickly after taking medicine to reduce the fever. Especially in the hot summer, if parents use the air conditioner improperly or the baby drinks less water and cannot adapt to the high temperature weather, it will cause repeated fever.

Treatment for children with fever:

Pay attention to your baby's sleep and rest

When a baby has a fever, the body's energy has to fight the disease, and at this time, the baby's energy is constantly being consumed. Good and sufficient sleep can effectively reduce the baby's body energy consumption. When the baby has a fever, parents should pay attention to the child's complexion, body temperature, mental state, etc., ensure the room is quiet, and provide the baby with a quiet and comfortable sleeping space.

Rehydrate

In fact, we all know that during fever and cold, the human body needs to drink more water to help detoxify the body. In fact, the same is true for caring for children with fever. Parents can feed the baby more water, or drink watermelon juice, pear juice and other fruit and vegetable juices to replenish water and increase or decrease vitamin intake, which is also a good choice.

Diet adjustment

If the baby is still in the breastfeeding stage at this time, he still needs to supplement breast milk normally. It should be noted that the child may have no appetite during the fever. The mother can feed the child in small amounts and multiple times. At the same time, as mentioned above, increase the water supplement appropriately. If the baby has already started to add complementary foods, then during the period of the child's fever, you need to pay more attention to the baby's diet. At this time, you can give the baby liquid, light, nutritious and easily digestible food. In addition to breast milk, there are also lotus root powder, rice paste, vegetable and fruit puree and other foods. When the child's fever condition improves, you can increase semi-liquid food, such as noodles, porridge and other foods according to the baby's appetite.