How to treat a child's viral fever

Fever is very common in our lives, especially for children, who may experience fever many times during their growth and development stage. There are many reasons why children have a fever, such as bacterial infection, and of course some viral invasion can also cause children to have a fever. So, how can we solve the problem of viral fever in children in a timely manner? Solving this problem is a guarantee for the health of children, so we must understand it.

The degree of fever alone cannot fully determine whether it is caused by a viral infection. Because in a few babies, viral infections can also cause high fever. If the baby only has a fever and other symptoms are not obvious or non-existent, we should suspect that it is caused by bacterial infection, viral infection, or a combined bacterial and viral infection. To confirm the diagnosis, it is best to go to the hospital for a blood test. We can judge from the blood test form that if only the number and ratio of lymphocytes exceed the normal range by a large margin, and the number of white blood cells is normal, then the fever is caused by a viral infection.

When it is confirmed that the fever is caused by a viral infection, you can consider physical cooling combined with medication to fight the virus, so that the baby will get better quickly. If the condition is more serious and accompanied by other symptoms, and it takes a long time, you must go to the hospital for infusion and treatment.

If the body temperature is below 38.5°, you can cool it down physically by applying a warm towel to the forehead, wiping both sides of the neck, vest, limbs, and soles of the feet. Feed your baby more boiled water to replenish water and speed up the excretion of the virus through urine. I personally do not recommend wiping with alcohol because it is really harmful to the skin. Baby's skin is tender and can easily cause allergies.

If the body temperature is above 38.5°, you need to use medicine to reduce the temperature.

During the antiviral process, you can also give your baby some antiviral drugs, which will help the baby resist the virus and get better faster.

Note: The treatment course for fever caused by viral infection is generally a little longer, about a week at the fastest and half a month at the slowest, so parents must be patient and not be impatient. The key is to take good care of the baby.

In order to prevent viral infection, parents need to give their babies more nutritional supplements, pay attention to nutritional balance, and let their babies exercise more outdoors and get more sun. This is the only way to quickly enhance the baby's immunity and reduce the chance of viral infection.

There are many solutions to children's viral fever, and the measures needed to be taken are often different for different situations. Generally speaking, physical cooling and medication can be used to solve children's viral fever problems, and the effect is relatively good. Of course, if these methods cannot effectively solve the problem, then the child should be sent to the hospital for treatment immediately. Everyone should remember this.