What should I do if my 10-month-old baby has a fever of 38 degrees?

A ten-month-old baby has a fever of 38 degrees, which is a very serious situation. What should I do? When a person has a high fever, even many adults cannot bear it, let alone a ten-month-old baby? So what should you do if your ten-month-old baby has a fever of 38 degrees? The more anxious you are, the calmer you should be, because if parents cannot remain calm, it will be very bad for the baby. If the baby has a high fever, you should go to the hospital immediately for examination and treatment to determine what is causing the fever.

If conditions do not permit and medical treatment cannot be sought immediately, parents can use the following methods to deal with children who have a fever:

1. For infants under one and a half years old, the anterior fontanelle has not yet completely closed. Parents can cover the child's anterior fontanelle with the palm of their hand after the child falls asleep, and continue to cover it until the child's head sweats slightly. At this time, when looking at the baby, you will find that the nose is unblocked, the breathing is steady, and the temperature has dropped. At this time, parents can wake up the baby and feed him more warm water or brown sugar water, and the baby will soon recover. When covering the baby's anterior fontanelle with the palm of your hand, parents must not be anxious. It is best for the child's father to do it. Men have high temperatures and babies are prone to sweating.

2. Most children's fever is caused by colds. When they have a fever, their hands and feet are cold, their tongue coating is white, their face is pale, and their urine is light in color. Parents can use ginger and brown sugar water to dispel the cold for their children, and the effect is good. If 2 to 3 pieces of green onion cut into one-inch long pieces are added to the ginger and brown sugar water, the effect will be better. If the child is afraid of spicy food, you can add two slices of ginger, two pieces of green onion, and a few drops of vinegar to the porridge for the child. After cooking, remove the ginger and green onion and feed it to the child. It can dispel cold, induce sweating, and reduce fever. The effect is good, and children are willing to eat it. Parents can feed their children 2 to 3 times a day. Do not add onions after the child's fever subsides. Ginger can also be omitted when the tongue coating is no longer white.

3. If the child's hands and feet are not cold when he has a fever, but his face is red, his throat is swollen and sore, his tongue is yellow or red, his urine is yellow and has a strong odor, and his eyes are red, it means that the child has a lot of internal heat in his body and he cannot drink ginger and brown sugar water. Parents should let their children drink plenty of warm boiled water. You can also add a small amount of salt to the water to make it light salt water for the child to drink, which can eliminate internal heat. Only if children drink plenty of water and urinate more often, allowing the internal heat in the body to be discharged with urine, will their body temperature drop and the symptoms of getting a fever improve.

I believe that through the above introduction, mothers will probably know what measures to take when their baby has a fever of 38 degrees. However, some diseases can cause the baby to have a persistent high fever. At this time, it should be taken seriously. This high fever must not be treated as an ordinary cold or fever. Instead, the cause should be found to avoid any irreversible consequences.