Is it okay for a child to take a bath when he has a fever?

When children have a fever, some parents panic. They start looking for the root cause of the fever and are also worried that if the fever continues, the child's brain will be damaged or he will develop pneumonia. In addition, when children have a fever, many parents don’t know whether to bathe them, because they are worried that their children will catch a cold if they bathe, and the cold and fever will get worse. So let’s now find out whether it is good for children to take a bath when they have a fever and how to reduce the fever.

Some mothers let their children endure the fever no matter how high it is, and refuse to take antipyretics. Believe that fever is good for children, or believe that antipyretic drugs will seriously harm children's health. What these mothers may have to face is: the child's fever does not go down overnight, the high fever makes the child extremely uncomfortable, irritable and crying, and without sufficient rest, which is not conducive to the body's immune response. Moreover, a high fever also poses a risk of febrile convulsions.

Young children can be bathed when they have a fever, but some parents are reluctant to bathe their babies when they have a fever, mainly because they are afraid that their children will catch a cold. In fact, if the method is correct, bathing can not only lower the body temperature by 0.5℃~1℃, but also calm down children who seem irritable due to fever and help them fall asleep peacefully.

Alcohol baths can also reduce fever effectively, but if used correctly, they will cause the child to cry severely (rubbing the chest and back with alcohol is the wrong way to do it), making it difficult for parents to do so, so it is not recommended for parents. Doctors and nurses in hospitals use this method, which can achieve relatively ideal cooling results. Ice patches and cold compresses are very auxiliary methods of cooling down. They can be used, but the effect is not great. Applying ice patches to children is, in a sense, comforting the mother.

If a child has a fever, parents must be careful not to let the child dress in too many clothes or cover him with too many quilts, because parents think that the child will feel hot and afraid of cold, and think that the child should be covered with more quilts to make the child sweat. In fact, this practice is wrong. Children's sweat glands are underdeveloped, and dissipating heat through the body surface is one of the best ways to dissipate heat.