What to do if a one-year-old baby has repeated fever due to bacterial infection

Children getting sick is what parents worry about the most. However, the most common thing is fever. The so-called fever is mostly a bacterial infection, especially for children around one year old. Children tend to have fever more often at night. What if we cannot get to the hospital in time and there is no cold medicine at home? Next, I will teach you some methods to reduce fever and identify whether a child has a fever.

The initial symptoms of a child's fever are red face, hot forehead, cold hands and feet, and poor spirits. In addition, there are symptoms of various systems, such as runny nose, sore throat, and cough in respiratory tract infections, abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea in gastroenteritis, and frequent urination, painful urination, and low back pain in urinary tract infections. The accompanying symptoms of various systems in infants are atypical, and may only include anorexia, vomiting, and diarrhea. There are many diseases that cause fever. Parents should pay attention to the pattern of their children's fever and accompanying symptoms, and go to the hospital for examination in time and receive early treatment. The normal body temperature of the human body is 36-37℃. 37-38℃ is a low fever, 38-39℃ is a moderate fever, above 39℃ is a high fever, and above 40℃ is an extremely high fever. Director Li suggested that young mothers should not panic when they find their children have a fever, but can take some emergency measures at home to relieve the symptoms.

Every family should have a thermometer and antipyretics for emergency use. Children with fever should have their temperature measured every 1-2 hours. It is not advisable to use antipyretics when the child's temperature is below 38.5℃; when the temperature exceeds 38.5℃, physical therapy such as cooling patches or ice compresses can be used to reduce the temperature, or children's cooling tablets can be taken in appropriate amounts; when the temperature exceeds 39℃, the child should stay in bed, open the quilt or loosen the clothes to expose the skin, place an ice pack or a cold wet towel on the head, and go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible; in the event of high fever convulsions, the child will have eyes staring or rising, loss of consciousness, unresponsiveness to calls, cyanosis of the lips, face and body, and convulsions of the limbs. Parents should immediately press the child's "Ren Zhong" acupoint (at the midpoint of the nasolabial groove), and continue strong stimulation for 1-3 minutes until the child cries, and then use the above method to quickly reduce the temperature, and also go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment immediately. When babies under six months old have a high fever, they generally do not receive antipyretic injections or take antipyretic medicine. The best way to reduce the temperature is a warm water bath. Regardless of whether the fever subsides after emergency treatment, the child should be taken to the hospital for treatment.

Post-diagnosis precautions

After a visit to the hospital, when you return home, there are simple things a mother can do to make her baby more comfortable.

Drink plenty of water; keep warm; shower with warm water.

After reading this article, I believe everyone must be very surprised, why are the methods we think of reducing fever wrong? But it’s not too late to know now. For those children who are uncomfortable because of fever, and for those parents who are worried but at a loss because of their children’s fever, please forward this article and let them learn too!