Is it okay to give baby a drip when he has a fever?

Fever is a very common symptom in the growth process of babies. Parents are usually the most worried after the baby has a fever. Once the baby has a fever, it may cause many complications. The baby's fever needs to be actively treated, but the treatment methods are different at different stages of the baby's fever. Sometimes the baby needs to take medicine when he has a fever, and sometimes he needs to be hung up with water. Is it good for the baby to have a fever and be hung up with water?

Is it okay to give intravenous drip to a baby with fever?

Intravenous infusion is not a method to reduce fever. The reason why the baby's fever subsided after intravenous injection is because the baby's body is dehydrated. The baby has a high fever, and the process of heat dissipation will take away a lot of water from the body. The intravenous injection provides some of the water, so the body temperature drops. However, in order to replenish water, it is not necessary to get an intravenous injection. Eating more light food or drinking more water during the baby's fever can also achieve the purpose of replenishing water. So mothers should not think that intravenous infusion is enough for fever. Infusion is not the best way to reduce fever.

Babies with fever should drink boiled water to replenish water

I want to correct a wrong view that replenishing water does not necessarily mean giving children glucose water!

Glucose is a monosaccharide. Excessive supplementation will not only increase the burden on the pancreas, but will also take away more water through excretion through the kidneys. It will also cause problems such as partial eclipse, picky eating, and tooth decay in babies. Therefore, the correct way to replenish water is to drink boiled water!

Can I just use a fever-reducing patch when my baby has a fever?

"My baby has a fever. Can a fever-reducing patch really help?" Fever-reducing patches can indeed reduce fever, but they only assist in lowering the temperature and do not cure the disease. Their fever-reducing effect is limited. Another reason why some parents like to use cooling patches is that they are worried that "fever will damage the brain" and think that this can protect the baby's brain.

In fact, fever will not damage the brain unless it is an extremely high fever exceeding 41°C or a fever caused by intracranial infection. Moreover, the temperature in the human body will be balanced through the flow of blood. It is impossible to lower the temperature inside the skull by cooling a small area of ​​skin on the forehead. There are also some cooling patches that contain substances such as borneol, mint, and eucalyptus oil. These things will make the local skin feel cool, but they do not really reduce the temperature.

There are many reasons for a baby's fever, which can be roughly divided into the following three categories:

① External factors: Body temperature is affected by the external environment, such as wearing too thick clothes in summer, too much clothes in winter, drinking too little water, and poor ventilation in the room;

②Internal factors: illness, cold, tracheitis, sore throat or other diseases;

③Other factors: Fever may occur after vaccination, but generally this fever can heal on its own.

Generally speaking, fever can improve the baby's own immunity, but frequent fever (more than four times a year) cannot be ruled out as being due to low immunoglobulin A or G. At the same time, don't ignore allergies (which can also cause fever). Moreover, if the fever is caused by allergies, immunoglobulin E will increase. Therefore, if your baby has a fever, you must find out the cause before deciding how to treat it. Parents should not blindly use so-called immunity-enhancing drugs!