What to do if a child has a fever of 38.5 degrees

Children have weaker constitutions and their body temperature is higher than ours. It is also more easily affected by the external environment. Fever and colds are common. A child's fever of 38.5 degrees is considered a high fever. The most urgent task is to reduce the fever. Many mothers have damaged their children’s brains due to high fever. Of course, it is not that serious, but we still need to find a way to reduce the fever. Let’s find out what to do if a child has a fever of 38.5 degrees?

There are many reasons for infant fever, which can be roughly divided into the following three categories:

1. External factors: Body temperature is affected by the external environment, such as wearing too many clothes in hot weather, drinking too little water, and poor ventilation in the room.

2. Internal factors: illness, cold, tracheitis, sore throat or other diseases.

3. Other factors: such as preventive injections, including measles, cholera, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and other reactions.

A baby's fever is only one of the symptoms of a disease, not all of them. Parents usually panic when they only see the appearance of the disease, such as fever, vomiting, and coughing. When doctors treat diseases, they first focus on finding the cause of the disease and the method that can completely cure it, rather than simply reducing the fever. So in some cases, the fever symptoms will continue to appear in order to explore the real cause of the disease. Therefore, parents who love their children, remember not to blindly ask the doctor to reduce the fever and treat the fever symptoms, but should follow the doctor's advice, accurately find out the real cause of the fever, and prescribe the right medicine.

If the child's temperature reaches 38.8℃, but the child is energetic and does not feel uncomfortable, there is no need for antipyretic treatment. When the child's temperature exceeds 38.3℃, but the child is listless, irritable and in pain, treatment should be given. A high fever above 39℃ can easily cause convulsions in children. Children under 6 months old should be treated in time when they have a fever because their condition changes rapidly. Infants under 3 months old should be cautious about using drugs to reduce fever, and physical methods should be used to reduce fever. Physical methods should also be used to reduce fever when the drug is not effective or the temperature exceeds 39℃ within two hours after the drug is used. It takes a certain amount of time for drugs to reduce fever to take effect. When the child's temperature suddenly exceeds 40℃, physical methods should be used to reduce fever immediately. Children's fever is mostly caused by colds, and the cause is mostly viral infection. Chinese medicine treatment has certain advantages. Such as children's cold oral liquid, children's heat-clearing and detoxification oral liquid, children's throat-clearing granules, antiviral oral liquid, Shuanghuanglian oral liquid, etc.

The above are the treatment methods for children's fever. There are certain differences between children and adults in the choice of medicines. In order to prevent children from having a fever, we should pay attention to letting them wear more clothes when it is cold, drink more water in hot seasons to prevent heatstroke, etc. Providing children with a good development environment is the basis for their growth.