What to do if your child has a fever at night

Young children's bodies are not fully developed, and their resistance is low. They will get sick if they are not careful. This makes many mothers feel particularly distressed. Young children often have a fever at night, and it is especially inconvenient to go to the hospital at night. So what should we do if young children have a fever at night? Let’s take a look at it together below.

1. When a child has a fever, the first thing we should do is to take the child's temperature. If it is below 38 degrees, give the child some water and coax him to sleep. The child may recover on his own after a night, or you can go to the hospital for a blood test the next day to see what the cause is.

2. If the child's body temperature exceeds 39 degrees, then we need to reduce the child's fever. The first recommended method is physical cooling. For example, use warm water to wipe the child's face, palms, soles of feet, neck, thighs and other places to help reduce fever.

3. If the child's temperature does not go down after rubbing with warm water, it is recommended to give the child some antipyretic medicine, such as fever-reducing patches for the forehead, and oral antipyretic medicine, such as Motrin. The fever will generally go down quickly after taking it. It should be taken every 4 to 6 hours, so you can take the medicine and wait for the hospital to open.

4. If the child still feels uncomfortable after taking the medicine, the fever does not go down for a while, and the temperature is still very high, you can wrap an ice pack in a dry towel and place it on the back of the child's head and also on the forehead to prevent high fever from damaging the brain. If you don't have an ice pack, you can use a wet towel wrapped in a plastic bag.

5. In addition to the above methods, you can also use medicated cotton dipped in medical alcohol to wipe the palms, soles of the feet, and thighs of your child to help reduce fever.

Through the above introduction, we now know what to do if a young child has a fever at night. We must take the child to the hospital for examination on the next day. A child's fever indicates that there is inflammation in the child's body. We must pay attention to it. During the child's treatment, we must also let the child drink plenty of water and pay close attention to the child's body temperature.