Two month old baby has cold hands and feet

We all know that babies at two months old are still in the newborn period. At this time, babies are still relatively fragile. Some parents will not take their babies out because there are many people and many germs in the outside world, which is far less safe than the environment at home. Although they are well protected by their parents, some babies will suffer from various diseases due to their physical constitution. So what is the matter with the cold hands and feet of two-month-old babies?

1. When the baby is in the mother's arms, the mother's diet is not based on the growth of the fetus, the diet lacks nutrition, and excessive intake of cold foods, such as ice cream, cold drinks, etc., the baby will have cold hands and feet for a long time

2. Before the baby develops a fever, his hands and feet will be cold, and then he will immediately develop a high fever;

3. Newborns have low physical strength and are more afraid of cold than ordinary people. They must wear more clothes and shoes. New parents must be careful and patient in raising their children and grow up with their babies. Only in this way can the babies grow up healthily and lively.

It is normal for children to have cold hands and feet, because unlike adults, the temperature of the hands and feet can be transmitted to the heart. There is no way to tell if the baby is too young. My baby is more than 4 months old and is the same. Just check the back of the baby's neck and chin. If they are warm, it means the baby is not cold. If the neck is cold, then the baby is not wearing enough. You cannot rely on the baby's hands and feet to sense whether the baby is wearing too much or too little.

What to do if your two-month-old baby has cold hands and feet

It is common in clinical practice that babies have fever but cold hands and feet. The child has a high fever but cold hands and feet. After the body temperature gradually drops, the hands and feet slowly become warm again. In fact, this is a phenomenon of false cold and real heat. Although the child's hands and feet are cold, his internal organs are in a feverish state. This is especially common in infants under 3 years old.

Children's limbs contain less blood than their internal organs, and the blood supply to their limbs is insufficient, so they are more likely to feel cold than adults. In addition, the development of children's nervous system is not yet complete, and the autonomic nervous system responsible for managing vasodilation and contraction is prone to disorder, resulting in the small blood vessels at the ends of the limbs being in a spasmodic contraction state and becoming cold when high fever first occurs.

Unfortunately, many parents, upon noticing their children's cold limbs, mistakenly believe that their children have caught a cold and are afraid of the cold, and immediately wrap the children tightly with quilts. As a result, the children's body temperature cannot be dissipated in time and keeps rising, causing high fever and convulsions, which has an adverse effect on the children's physical recovery.

When a child's hands and feet are cold, parents can measure the child's temperature with a thermometer, touch the child's armpits, or feel the temperature of the child's exhaled air face to face. Breastfeeding mothers can also determine whether their child has a fever by feeling the warmth of the child's mouth through the nipple while breastfeeding. If a child's hands and feet are cold, but his armpits, forehead, mouth and other parts are burning, timely antipyretic measures should be taken and the child should go to the hospital to find out the cause of the fever.

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