Why does my baby have a fever? The reason is so complicated

Babies are very prone to high fevers, and the reasons are very complicated, such as environmental influences, wrong food, bacterial infection, etc. Many times parents don’t know the reasons, but they should at least know how to deal with fevers.

1. Non-disease factors:

The baby's body temperature is easily affected by the external environment: high temperature (heatstroke), wearing too many clothes, insufficient water intake, water loss (sweating, diarrhea), poor ventilation in the room, before and after strenuous exercise, the effects of certain special drugs, and other factors such as preventive injections may also cause fever. If the body temperature becomes unstable, the possibility of illness should be considered.

2. Disease factors:

(1) Fever in infants under 3 months old

Bacterial infection is the most common (such as group B streptococcus); other infections such as respiratory tract, urinary tract, gastrointestinal tract or otitis media can also cause fever. The most serious infectious disease is sepsis. Therefore, when a newborn has a fever, it is important to take the baby to a doctor for examination so that early diagnosis and treatment can be given.

(2) Fever in infants and young children older than 3 months

The most common ones are colds, otitis media, and urinary tract infections. Otitis media is usually caused by bacteria or viruses from a cold infecting the middle ear through the Eustachian tube. Except for severe otitis media where pus can be seen flowing into the ear, most abnormalities cannot be seen from the outside.

3. The baby’s living environment is too clean. Some people may ask, is there anything wrong with being clean? There is nothing wrong with being clean, but you can't overdo anything. For example, some mothers use 84 disinfectant at home. They treat their baby's bottles and toys with 84 disinfectant, making the child's living environment almost sterile. This is not acceptable. Our living environment cannot be separated from bacteria, otherwise allergic diseases will increase accordingly, the child's immune system will be disordered, and when they leave the protection of their small family and come to kindergarten, they will be stimulated by a different environment and will have a runny nose and cough. This is actually allergic rhinitis and allergic cough caused by allergies, and has nothing to do with colds.