What to do if a 6-year-old child has a fever

For children aged 6, colds and fevers are quite common. There are many causes of fever, but the methods to treat it are similar. Since children's body temperature is easily affected by external factors, many parents are very afraid that their children will have a fever, but they don't know what to do. What should I do if a 6-year-old child has a fever? Is there any simple way to help children reduce fever?

It is common for six-year-old children to have a fever. There are many causes of fever, such as upper respiratory tract infection and various acute infectious diseases. Moreover, body temperature is easily affected by external factors, so parents should not panic if their children have a fever. What to do if a six-year-old child has a fever? First of all, we should distinguish whether it is physiological or pathological. For physiological fever, such as when children wear too many clothes or after activities, no treatment is required; for pathological fever, what should we do if a 6-year-old child has a fever?

You may try the following methods to reduce fever. 1. Warm water bath: use warm water of 32 to 36 degrees Celsius for sponge bath or immersion bath. A sponge bath is to scrub or massage the child's entire skin with warm water; when taking a bath, the child's entire body should be immersed in the water. A warm water bath can stimulate children's skin, dilate capillaries, accelerate blood flow, increase heat dissipation, and clean or dilate the openings of sweat glands to facilitate sweating, thereby cooling down quickly and effectively. Each warm water bath should last for 5 to 10 minutes.

2. Alcohol bath: Wipe with 25% to 35% alcohol. Parents can dip a handkerchief into the prepared alcohol solution, starting from one side of the child's neck, wiping from top to bottom along the outside of the arm to the arm, and then wiping from the armpit to the palm. The treatment method for the other side is the same. For the lower limbs, you can rub from the outside of the child's thigh to the instep, and then from the groin to the sole of the foot. Rub your armpits, groin, soles of feet, and palms with force, repeating back and forth several times. Alcohol can dilate the capillaries on the skin surface, increase heat dissipation, and quickly reduce the temperature. However, you must be gentle when operating on babies to prevent skin damage.

Regarding the question of what to do if a 6-year-old child has a fever, I don't know how much you know about this. As long as the child's fever is not very high, you can use physical cooling methods to help reduce the temperature. Don't take medicine, get injections, or infusions as soon as you have a fever. Although these can make you get better quickly, they will still cause certain harm to the body. So you don't need to go to the hospital and try to recuperate at home.