What to do if your baby has a fever of 37.9

Every child is very important to the family. However, children will always have some health problems in the process of growing up. Among them, baby fever is the most common disease, but it often makes parents worry, because long-term fever is particularly prone to cause pneumonia, etc., and it is also particularly detrimental to the baby's health. Then many parents will find that their baby has a fever of 37.9, but it doesn’t feel particularly serious. They don’t know what to do in this situation and whether they need to take the baby to the hospital for treatment. Let’s learn about what to do if the baby has a fever of 37.9.

What to do if your baby has a fever of 37.9

There are many causes of fever in children. If accompanied by cough and other symptoms, you may need to pay attention to whether it is bronchitis.

The normal skin temperature of a newborn is maintained at 36-37℃. This temperature has the lowest oxygen consumption and can ensure the baby's normal metabolism.

Newborn babies, especially premature babies, have poor temperature regulation function and their temperature regulation center is immature. When the environmental temperature changes beyond the baby's own temperature regulation ability, it will cause the baby's body temperature to be too low or feverish.

When taking your baby's temperature, keep the following in mind:

1. Generally, the baby's body temperature in the afternoon will be slightly higher than that in the morning. If you want to record the baby's body temperature, you can choose to measure the baby's body temperature at fixed times every day, such as after the baby gets up, before taking a bath, or in the evening, and measure it about three times a day.

2. If your baby is found to have a fever, parents can provide the doctor with previously recorded information such as the baby's fever date, time, temperature changes, fever frequency, number of days and related symptoms when seeking medical treatment as a reference for diagnosing the condition.

3. You cannot use an oral temperature meter to measure body temperature like adults, because newborn babies are too small to cooperate with adults, and their oral cavity is very small, which can easily cause danger.

How to deal with a baby's fever

If your baby has a fever and the body temperature does not reach above 38.5, you can use some physical cooling methods. You can use some alcohol cotton balls to rub behind the baby's ears repeatedly to reduce the temperature.

When a baby has a fever, physical cooling should be the main method. Keep the air circulating in the home and maintain the room temperature between 25℃-27℃. In addition, you can give the baby a warm bath, that is, undress the baby and rub the whole body with a warm water (37℃) towel. Give the baby plenty of water. If the baby's body temperature (rectal temperature or ear temperature) exceeds 38.5℃, you can use antipyretic solutions or suppositories appropriately.

1. Maintain air circulation in the home: If the home has air conditioning, maintain the room temperature between 25℃-27℃. You can place your baby in an air-conditioned room or use an electric fan to blow around him to slowly lower his body temperature and make him feel more comfortable. But if the limbs are cold and the patient is shivering violently, it means that the patient needs warmth, so he should be covered with a blanket. But parents must remember that they must not let their babies face the air conditioner or electric fan to cool down.

2. Take off too many clothes: If the baby's limbs and hands and feet are warm and the whole body is sweating, it means that the baby needs to dissipate heat, so he can wear fewer clothes.

3. Warm water bath: Undress the baby and use warm water (37℃) to wipe the baby's hair.

Rub the baby's whole body with a towel, which can dilate the blood vessels in the baby's skin to release body qi. In addition, when water vapor evaporates from the body surface, it will also absorb

The above is an introduction to what to do if your baby has a fever of 37.9. Don’t panic when you encounter such symptoms. First, you must understand the cause and then physically cool down the baby. Don’t give your baby some medicine as soon as he has a fever. After all, medicine is three-point poison and may cause certain harm to the baby. In addition, don’t let the baby wear too many clothes during the baby’s fever.