What should I do if my 7-month-old baby has a fever?

What should you do if your baby has a fever at 7 months old? It is quite common for babies to have fever, and babies are relatively weak, so mothers must take good care of them. If a baby has a fever at 7 months old, the fever must be reduced in time. There are many ways to reduce fever, and physical fever reduction is a relatively simple method. No matter which method is used, you must not let your child be harmed, and the fever must be reduced in time. This is what mothers need to do.

The initial symptoms of a child's fever are red face, hot forehead, cold hands and feet, and poor spirits. In addition, there are symptoms of various systems, such as runny nose, sore throat, and cough in respiratory tract infections, abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea in gastroenteritis, and frequent urination, painful urination, and low back pain in urinary tract infections. The accompanying symptoms of various systems in infants are atypical, and may only include anorexia, vomiting, and diarrhea.

There are many diseases that cause fever. Parents should pay attention to the pattern of their children's fever and accompanying symptoms, and go to the hospital for examination in time and receive early treatment. The normal body temperature of the human body is 36-37℃, 37-38℃ is a low fever, 38-39℃ is a moderate fever, above 39℃ is a high fever, and above 40℃ is an extremely high fever. Director Li suggested that young mothers should not panic when they find their children have a fever, but can take some emergency measures at home to relieve the symptoms.

Every family should have a thermometer and antipyretics for emergency use. Children with fever should have their temperature measured every 1-2 hours. It is not advisable to use antipyretics when the child's temperature is below 38.5℃; when the temperature exceeds 38.5℃, physical therapy such as cooling patches or ice compresses can be used to reduce the temperature, or children's cooling tablets can be taken in appropriate amounts; when the temperature exceeds 39℃, the child should stay in bed, open the quilt or loosen the clothes to expose the skin, place an ice pack or a cold wet towel on the head, and go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible; in the event of high fever convulsions, the child will have staring or upward eyes, loss of consciousness, unresponsiveness to calls, cyanosis of the lips, face and body, and convulsions of the limbs. Parents should immediately press the child's "Ren Zhong" acupoint (at the midpoint of the nasolabial groove), with strong stimulation continuing for 1-3 minutes until the child cries, and then use the above method to quickly reduce the temperature, and also go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment immediately. Babies under six months old generally do not receive antipyretic injections or take antipyretic medicine when they have a high fever. The best way to reduce the temperature is a warm water sponge bath. Regardless of whether the fever subsides after emergency treatment, the child should be taken to the hospital for treatment.

Post-diagnosis precautions

After a visit to the hospital, when you return home, there are simple things a mother can do to make her baby more comfortable.

Drink more water. Drinking water helps to sweat and dissipate heat, lower body temperature and replenish the water lost by the child's body. Drinking water is not limited to plain water. You can let your child drink some of his or her favorite fruit juice, beverages, etc. to replenish water and vitamins, or drink more soup. When your child is sick and has no appetite, you can let him/her eat some cake, tofu, etc.

Pay attention to keeping warm. Insulation does not mean the warmer the better. When your child has a fever, remember not to let him dress in too many clothes or cover him with too thick a quilt. This traditional method of "covering up sweat" is not conducive to dissipating heat and reducing fever. Just let the child wear one more piece of clothing than the normal adult. For example, when the adult wears short sleeves, the child can wear long sleeves. When the adult wears one long skirt, the child can wear two.

Take a warm shower. Some mothers worry that giving their children a bath while they have a fever will aggravate the symptoms. After having a fever, you sweat a lot. If you don’t keep clean, it is easy to cause infection by other bacteria, so taking a shower is necessary, but you must use warm water, and the water temperature is best at 38-39℃. Wiping or bathing your child's entire body with warm water can dilate the blood vessels in his or her skin and increase heat dissipation. After taking a shower, wrap your child in a large towel to prevent him from catching a cold.

When the baby has a fever at 7 months old, the mother should not be anxious, but should find ways to reduce the baby's fever. If she cannot reduce the fever in time, she should take her baby to the hospital for treatment in time. If the baby continues to have a fever, it is very easy to damage the brain, so pay attention to reducing the fever in time to restore your baby's body to health.