What should I do if my child has a fever of 38 degrees?

Many parents don't know what to do when their children are sick. In fact, children have more fragile constitutions and find it difficult to resist some minor illnesses because their immune systems are not yet fully developed. Once parents find that their children are sick, they should seek treatment in time. The following are some simple treatment methods for children with a fever of 38 degrees. I hope they will be helpful to you.

1. Diet therapy for fever: Watermelon water: squeeze the watermelon pulp and drink the juice. Lotus leaf porridge: cook white rice into porridge, add lotus leaves and simmer until ready to eat. Mung bean porridge: 25 grams of mung beans, 15 grams of rice, and an appropriate amount of white sugar. Cook the mung beans and white rice into porridge, then add sugar and eat it. Honeysuckle tea: 10 grams of honeysuckle, boiled in water and added sugar. Raw reed root porridge: 15 grams of fresh reed root, 25 grams of polished rice. Boil reed root in water until it is half cooked, then cook porridge with the juice. Five-juice drink: pear juice, water chestnut juice, fresh reed root juice, Ophiopogon japonicus juice, and lotus root juice. Mix well and drink cold, or stew and drink warm. Sea cucumber porridge: 10 grams of sea cucumber, 25 grams of white rice, cook into porridge.

2. Pay attention to dressing appropriately: If the patient is a child, special attention should be paid because they cannot express their feelings yet. In fact, dressing children in too many clothes or placing them in extremely hot places may cause fever. At the same time, do not make the room temperature too high. Doctors usually recommend not exceeding 20℃. At the same time, the room should be properly ventilated to help recovery, and the light should be soft to help the patient relax.

In fact, it is very common for children to have a fever, so parents should not be overly nervous. If you find a problem, you can follow the above methods to give your child simple treatment. If the high fever persists, it is recommended that parents take the child to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time to help the child get rid of the illness and reduce pain as soon as possible.