How to deal with a baby's fever of 40 degrees

Baby fever is a common disease, which is quite harmful to the child's health. Therefore, many parents must pay attention to it. The following content introduces in detail how to deal with a baby's fever of 40 degrees. As a parent, in order to help your baby recover as soon as possible when he has a fever, you can take a look at the following treatment methods.

Treatment

Drink more warm water, vegetable juice and fruit juice

Let your baby drink more water and replenish body fluids. This is the most basic method of reducing fever. It is very effective and practical and suitable for all babies with fever. Do not give your baby cold water, because fever is often accompanied by gastrointestinal symptoms and cough, and drinking cold water will aggravate these accompanying symptoms. Give your baby warm water.

Warm water bath

Wipe the whole body with a warm towel. This is a great way to cool down any baby who has a fever. The water temperature should be between 32 and 34 oC, and each wiping time should be more than 10 minutes. The key areas to wipe are the skin folds, such as the neck, armpits, elbows, groin, etc.

Warm bath

The water temperature is about 3 to 4 degrees Celsius lower than the patient's body temperature, and should be kept for 5 to 10 minutes each time.

Many parents think that babies should not be bathed when they have a fever. In fact, on the contrary, giving babies a warm bath can help cool them down. A warm bath is suitable for all babies with a fever.

Precautions

Generally, antipyretic drugs, such as Anesthesia drops and Tylenol, should be used only after the body temperature reaches 39-40 degrees. 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 toxic reactions. Various antipyretics such as aspirin and phenacetin can easily produce toxic effects in the neonatal period or cause collapse at slightly larger doses, so antipyretics should be used with caution when the newborn has a fever. When the room temperature is too high, try to lower it and slightly loosen the newborn's blanket to facilitate heat dissipation. If the baby is wrapped too tightly, the heat will not be able to dissipate and the body temperature will rise further. If the newborn's body temperature exceeds 39 degrees, you can use a warm towel to wipe the forehead, neck, armpits, limbs and thighs to promote heat dissipation from the skin. At this time, you should also feed your baby more boiled water to help excrete toxins.

The above comprehensively introduces how to deal with a baby's fever of 40 degrees. Therefore, many parents must have a specific understanding of these aspects. When their baby has a fever of 40 degrees, they must use the above-introduced treatment methods as soon as possible to reduce their child's high fever as soon as possible to ensure their child's health.