What temperature is considered a fever in children?

For us adults, our normal body temperature is 37 to 37.5℃, but children's body temperature is lower than that of adults, so we cannot use the adult body temperature standard to measure whether children have a fever. So, for children, what body temperature can indicate that they have a fever? Next, let me introduce it to you.

A body temperature of 37.5-38℃ is low fever, 38-39℃ is moderate fever, and above 39℃ is high fever.

Low or moderate fever is beneficial to the growth and development of children. Fever is the body's response to a viral or bacterial invasion. This reaction helps to eliminate invading viruses and bacteria, thus promoting the normal growth and development of children. No medicine is needed unless the fever is high.

If the body temperature reaches 39 degrees or above, medication must be taken immediately. If high fever persists for too long, many important functions of the body may be disordered; the high consumption of oxygen and nutrients increases the burden on the heart and blood vessels; excessive brain excitement leads to febrile convulsions or excessive inhibition causes drowsiness; digestive dysfunction; weakened resistance and pneumonia, etc. However, antipyretic drugs have serious side effects and should not be used unless absolutely necessary.

Whether it is paracetamol, compound aspirin (APC), or other various antipyretic drugs, they are all synthesized from aspirin, caffeine, and phenacetin. Therefore, antipyretics have significant side effects: irritating the gastric mucosa, destroying appetite, aggravating gastric ulcers or even bleeding, causing long-term small-scale gastrointestinal bleeding and thus leading to iron deficiency anemia; inducing blood diseases; damaging the liver and kidneys; severe allergic reactions manifest as exfoliative dermatitis combined with liver and kidney poisoning and death.

What temperature is considered a fever in children? Parents should know this question. We all know that babies have relatively poor physical fitness, so parents should pay more attention to their baby's physical condition. Moreover, when the baby has a fever, do not use medicine blindly to avoid causing greater physical burden on the baby. After all, medicines have certain side effects.