What should I do if my child has a fever in the middle of the night?

What children fear most is catching a fever in the middle of the night. If the child lives in a city, it is OK because the hospital has an emergency room to receive the child. However, if the child lives in a rural area, there is no way to seek medical treatment in time if the child has a fever in the middle of the night. Therefore, as parents, we need to understand in detail what to do if the child has a fever in the middle of the night, so that we can make the correct treatment plan when the child has a fever and avoid affecting the child's health due to the fever.

Parents should not panic if their children have a fever at night. The first thing to do is to test the child's temperature with a thermometer to see the extent of the child's fever, and then take corresponding measures.

If the child's body temperature is below 38.5 degrees and the child is in good spirits, you can give the child some water and rub the child's chest and back with the palms of your hands to make the child sweat and he will be fine.

When the child's body temperature is below 38.5 degrees, you can also use physical cooling methods, which is to use a hot towel to wipe the child's neck, armpits, palms, soles of the feet, etc. to help the baby cool down. Wiping the body with warm water is also a better cooling method, but it is not convenient to wipe the body when the baby is asleep in the middle of the night.

In addition to wiping with a hot towel, you can also use a cold towel to apply cool compress to the child's head. This can prevent the baby's brain from being burned when the fever occurs.

Some children's antipyretic medicine should be kept at home. If the child has a fever of more than 38.5 degrees in the middle of the night, the baby should be woken up immediately to give the baby medicine, and then the physical cooling method mentioned above should be used to help the child cool down.

If your child has a fever in the middle of the night and takes medicine, you should reduce or remove the baby's quilt appropriately. Don't wrap the baby in a thick quilt just because you are afraid that the baby will be cold. Wrapping the baby in a thick quilt will affect the baby's body's heat dissipation and cooling.

If your child has a fever of over 38.5 degrees in the middle of the night and the fever does not go down after taking antipyretics, and your child is in a bad mental state, you should go to the hospital immediately. Do not delay your child's condition to avoid causing other complications.

What should you do if your child has a fever in the middle of the night? Although this article has introduced it very clearly, parents still need to be reminded that fever can be divided into low fever and high fever. Generally, it is not recommended for children to take antipyretics for low fever, because many antipyretics have a certain impact on the child's body organs. Therefore, for the health of the child, it is best to adopt physical antipyretic measures for low fever.