What should I do to relieve a child’s fever?

Everyone knows that children have relatively poor resistance, and they often suffer from diseases such as fever and colds. However, some young parents have no experience in dealing with these situations, which brings them great psychological pressure. So what method is effective in relieving the symptoms of fever? Let me introduce it to you below.

When a child has a fever, a warm water bath can help relieve the fever. Dip a towel in warm water (the water temperature should not be too hot to touch) and wipe the neck, armpits, and thighs for 5 to 10 minutes. You can also use a commercially available "cooling patch" (or a household ice pack) on the forehead to help dissipate heat and reduce temperature. If necessary, you can take antipyretics. When your baby's fever exceeds 38.5 degrees, the doctor will consider using oral medications or rectal suppositories to reduce your baby's fever. Or when the above physical measures are not effective, oral antipyretics can be taken to reduce the temperature. At the same time, pay attention to ventilation, heat dissipation, wear loose clothes, and avoid wrapping yourself with a quilt. You can use air conditioning in the summer and control the room temperature at around 27℃. Remember to open windows regularly to allow air convection in the room.

However, it should be noted that when infants and young children under 3 years old have a high fever, physical cooling methods should be used first. Generally, antipyretic injections and antipyretic drugs are not required to avoid collapse and drug toxicity reactions. The use of other drugs should also be cautious. However, many parents believe that it is safe to help their baby reduce the fever as soon as possible. In fact, if it is a minor illness, the fever will last for about 2-3 days, and the normal attitude towards fever is to find out the cause behind the fever. It is unscientific to forcibly reduce the temperature. Don't just ask your doctor to reduce your fever, because sometimes a fever is caused by something else going on in your body.

I believe that after reading this, all parents will know how to deal with this symptom, so that they will not feel overwhelmed in the future, and will not deal with it casually when solving it. However, the editor would like to make a special reminder that if there are serious conditions such as high fever that will not subside, you must go to the pediatric outpatient clinic for examination and treatment in time.