What should I do if my 4-month-old baby has a fever and diarrhea?

A four-month-old baby is very sensitive to everything in the outside world and is slowly adapting. Every child has a different ability to adapt. Children who adapt well will get sick less often, while children with poor adaptability will get sick frequently. Fever is one of the most common diseases. Sometimes children will have diarrhea when they have a fever. What should we do? What should I do if my 4-month-old baby has a fever and diarrhea? Let’s learn more about it!

Keep your baby calm. If your baby has diarrhea, you should first calm your baby down and don’t let him cry out of fear, as this will aggravate the condition. Then distract your baby so that he doesn't feel uncomfortable.

Children's fever and diarrhea are mainly caused by the loss of a large amount of water and salt. If the baby is dehydrated to below moderate level, without severe vomiting and able to eat, you can feed the baby oral rehydration saline in small amounts and multiple times, once every 2 to 3 minutes, and feed 10 to 20 ml each time with a spoon; this way, small amounts will accumulate into large amounts, and the dehydration can be corrected in about 4 to 6 hours. If the child has severe diarrhea and is obviously dehydrated, the child should be taken to the hospital to see a pediatrician and given intravenous fluids.

In terms of dietary care, it is emphasized that meals should be eaten at regular times and in regular amounts, with appropriate temperatures, and that one should eat less or avoid greasy, fried, and spicy foods as much as possible to avoid excess nutrition in the body, which will promote dampness and heat generation. One should also drink less cold drinks and frozen foods to avoid damaging the yang energy of the spleen and stomach, and cultivate the habit of not being picky about food.

Help your baby reduce the fever physically. If your baby has a fever, first put a cooling patch on his forehead to help him lower his body temperature. If it does not exceed 38.5°, there is no need to rush to take antipyretics. If the fever exceeds this level, give your baby antipyretics under the guidance of a doctor.

Through the above description, we know what to do if a 4-month-old baby has a fever and diarrhea. In fact, this method solves many of our problems. We have no experience, and as for the child, he knows nothing. We cannot delay the child's treatment. With the above method, we can give the child timely treatment, so that the child will recover faster.