How to treat a two-year-old baby with a fever of 39 degrees?

Baby fever is the most common disease in children. There are many reasons why a two-year-old baby has a fever, so if you want to help your baby reduce the fever, you must first find out the cause. If the baby's fever has reached 39 degrees, parents must take the child to the hospital for treatment in time. However, if the baby suddenly has a high temperature at night, how to treat it? Now let the editor teach you how to help a two-year-old baby reduce fever!

(1) Drink more warm water, vegetable juice and fruit juice. Let your baby drink more water and replenish body fluids. This is the most basic method of reducing fever. It is very effective and practical and suitable for all babies with fever. Do not give your baby cold water, because fever is often accompanied by gastrointestinal symptoms and cough, and drinking cold water will aggravate these accompanying symptoms. Give your baby warm water.

(2) Warm water bath, that is, wipe the whole body with a warm water towel. This is a great way to cool down any baby who has a fever. The water temperature is more suitable at 32-34 degrees, and each wiping time should be more than 10 minutes. The key areas to wipe are the skin folds, such as the neck, armpits, elbows, groin, etc.

(3) Warm water bath: The water temperature should be about 3-4°C lower than the patient’s body temperature, and each bath should last for 5-10 minutes. Many parents think that babies should not be bathed when they have a fever. In fact, on the contrary, giving babies a warm bath can help cool them down. A warm bath is suitable for all babies with a fever.

(4) Low-temperature chamber method: Place the sick child in an environment with a room temperature of approximately 24°C to allow the body temperature to slowly drop. In order to allow the skin to come into contact with the outside air and help cool down, people need to wear less clothes. If conditions permit, use air conditioning to lower the room temperature. This method is suitable for babies under 1 month old, especially in summer. Just open the baby's clothes and put him in a cool place, his body temperature will slowly drop. If your baby has chills and shivering when having a fever, you should not use the low-temperature chamber method.

After reading the above analysis by the editor, I believe everyone now knows how to take care of your baby when he suddenly has a fever! The above contents are some physical treatment methods. If a two-year-old baby has a high fever of 39 degrees and it does not subside, the editor recommends that parents should take the child to a regular hospital for examination and treatment in time.