What to do if your child has a low-grade fever? Parents must know

Low-grade fever is a common symptom in children. Children have weaker immune systems and often have low-grade fevers, so mothers must understand how to reduce fever in case of emergency. I will introduce to you several methods that can be used to cool down your baby at home, but if the baby is seriously ill, it is safer to send him to the doctor.

How to reduce fever for babies

From childhood to adulthood, babies will have some symptoms of fever to a greater or lesser extent. Some parents will be as anxious as ants on a hot pan and seek medical advice everywhere; some parents just want their children to reduce their fever quickly and give them all kinds of food and stuff. In fact, both too much and too little are a burden on the child's health.

There are many causes of fever in children, which can be roughly divided into the following three categories:

1. External factors:

2. Children's body temperature is affected by the external environment, such as wearing too many clothes when it is hot, drinking too little water, and poor ventilation in the room.

2. Internal factors:

Sickness, cold, tracheitis, sore throat or other illness.

3. Other factors:

Such as preventive injections, including measles, cholera, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and other reactions.

Fever is only one symptom of the disease, not all of it. Dr. Song Wenju, director of the pediatric department, said that when it comes to fever, doctors are concerned about the impact and progression of the disease itself, but parents usually only see the appearance of the disease, such as fever, vomiting, and coughing, and then become panicked. Little do people know that when doctors treat diseases, the most important thing is to discover the cause of the disease and find a way to completely cure it, rather than simply reducing the fever. So in some cases, the fever symptoms will be allowed to continue to appear in order to find the true underlying cause of the disease. Therefore, he reminded loving parents not to blindly ask doctors to reduce fever or treat fever symptoms, but to follow the doctor's advice, accurately find out the real cause of the fever and prescribe the right medicine.