How to reduce the temperature physically when the baby has a fever of 38.5?

It is a common physical illness for babies to have a fever in daily life. Babies with fever need to be treated in time, and if the baby's temperature is 38.5, it needs to be cooled down in time. Physical cooling methods can be used. You can wipe the baby's body with clean water or alcohol to achieve the cooling effect. At the same time, you should also pay more attention to the baby's body temperature.

1. 35% alcohol bath

Alcohol can dilate blood vessels and take away a lot of heat when it evaporates, which can help cool down infants and young children when they have a fever. Prepare 100 ml of 75% alcohol, add an equal amount of warm water, and keep the temperature at around 27-37 degrees Celsius. Do not let it be too cold, otherwise it will cause muscle contraction, causing the temperature to rise again. When taking a sponge bath, dip a towel or handkerchief in the prepared solution, start from one side of the neck, wipe from top to bottom along the outside of the arm to the back of the hand, then wipe from the armpit along the inside of the upper arm down to the palm, and after wiping one side, wipe the other side in the same way. When wiping the lower limbs, wipe from the outside of the thigh to the instep, and then from the groin along the inside of the thigh to the sole of the foot.

2. Take a bath with warm water

Taking a bath can help dissipate heat. If your baby is in good spirits when he has a fever, you can give him more baths and adjust the water temperature between 27 and 37 degrees Celsius. Be careful not to give your baby a hot bath, otherwise it will easily cause vasodilation throughout the body, increase oxygen consumption, easily lead to ischemia and hypoxia, and aggravate the condition.

3. Soak your feet in hot water

Soaking your feet can promote blood circulation and relieve discomfort. Another benefit of soaking your baby's feet when he has a fever is that it can help reduce the temperature. You can use a large basin or a small bucket for foot soaking. Pour 2/3 of the basin with water. The water temperature should be slightly higher than usual, around 40 degrees Celsius, and it should be based on what the baby can adapt to.

1. Milk

Milk can provide children with a certain amount of protein, and adding an appropriate amount of rice soup can provide some carbohydrates.

2. Rice soup

Rice soup can provide children with carbohydrates, and it has sufficient water content, making it easier for sick children to absorb it through their stomachs. Boil the rice until it is soft and remove the residue to get rice soup.

3. Mung Bean Soup

Mung beans are benign and have the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying and relieving summer heat.

In summer, you can drink watermelon juice, which has the effects of clearing away heat, quenching thirst, and diuresis. In autumn and winter, you can drink fresh pear juice, which has the effects of moistening the lungs, clearing the heart, relieving cough, and removing phlegm. Fresh orange juice has the effects of removing dampness, resolving phlegm, clearing the lungs, and dredging the meridians.

Fresh pear juice has the effects of clearing heat, moistening the lungs and relieving cough. It is suitable for babies with fever and cough.

Fresh apple juice contains a lot of vitamin C, which can not only supplement the baby's nutritional needs, but also neutralize toxins in the baby's body. After a child has a fever for a few days, he or she often does not want to eat. Parents will become very worried and ask the child to eat more after the fever subsides.

Physical cooling for baby's fever

In fact, the best way to reduce a baby's fever is physical cooling, and some habitual behaviors and methods in our daily life are physical cooling, such as: applying a fever patch on the child's forehead, wiping the body with alcohol, etc., these are all physical cooling methods. Below I will give you a detailed introduction to the physical cooling methods for babies with fever.