What to do if your 10-month-old baby has a fever

Anyone who has infants and young children at home knows that special attention should be paid to fever before the baby is 3 years old. Infants and young children in this period have fever more frequently, and if not handled in time, it may have a great impact on the physical development of the infant or young child. So what should you do if a baby around ten months old has a fever? How to deal with it properly? This article will tell you the answer.

When you find that your baby has a fever, the first thing you should do is measure the temperature of the baby's armpit with a thermometer. The purpose of this is to determine the baby's accurate body temperature. If the body temperature is over 37 degrees and does not exceed 37.5 degrees, what the mother should do is: let the baby drink more warm water. Some babies will cooperate in drinking, while others will cry. Therefore, mom and dad need to cooperate. One person holds the baby, and one person feeds the baby.

If the baby's temperature exceeds 37.5 degrees, you should start wiping the baby's body with warm water. The main areas to wipe are: both sides of the cheeks, behind the ears, hand joints, palms, foot joints, soles of the feet, and back. Note that the wiping direction is from top to bottom. If you have a fever-reducing patch at home, you can take it out and stick it on your baby's forehead. If the baby cooperates, you can also cut the cooling patch into two halves and stick it on the temple.

No matter which method you use to reduce fever, you should measure your temperature again after a period of time. If the temperature exceeds 38 degrees, give your baby antipyretics immediately. Antipyretics are available at pharmacies. Always keep it at home. If you don’t have it at home and your baby happens to have a fever at night, you must go out and buy it. Otherwise, if the baby has a high fever in the middle of the night, it will be troublesome. The above are all ways you can do to help your baby reduce fever. If your baby has a high fever that does not go away or has repeated fevers, be sure to take him to the hospital in time, because the baby's fever may be caused by other reasons. For example, a sore throat.

If a ten-month-old child has a fever and the fever is severe and won't go away, the editor recommends that you immediately send the baby to the hospital for treatment, because long-term high fever will have a great impact on the baby's future development, and in severe cases it will affect the baby's intelligence. The above is all for today. I hope it can help you solve related doubts.