What should I do if my 1-year-old baby has a high fever?

Some newborn babies have physical problems, especially some babies have high fever problems, which seriously affect the baby's physical health. Therefore, once the baby has this problem, it is necessary to pay attention to timely treatment to ensure the health of the body. So what should I do if a one-year-old baby has a high fever? Let me introduce it to you below.

1. Factors causing fever

1. Non-disease factors

The body temperature of infants is easily affected by the external environment: high temperature (heatstroke), wearing too many clothes, insufficient water intake, water loss (sweating, diarrhea), poor ventilation in the room, before and after strenuous exercise, the effects of certain special drugs, and other factors such as preventive injections may also cause fever. If the body temperature becomes unstable, the possibility of illness should be considered.

2. Disease factors

(1) Infants under 3 months old with fever

Bacterial infection is the most common (such as group B streptococcus); other infections such as respiratory tract, urinary tract, gastrointestinal tract or otitis media can also cause fever. The most serious infectious disease is sepsis. Therefore, when a newborn has a fever, it is important to take the baby to a doctor for examination so that early diagnosis and treatment can be given.

(2) Fever in infants and young children older than 3 months

The most common ones are colds, otitis media, and urinary tract infections. Otitis media is usually caused by bacteria or viruses from a cold infecting the middle ear through the Eustachian tube. Except for severe otitis media where pus can be seen flowing into the ear, most abnormalities cannot be seen from the outside.

In addition, urine tests are also important when children have a fever for no apparent reason. When children and adults have urinary tract infections, they may experience frequent urination, painful urination, or even urinary incontinence and back pain. Young infants may only have anorexia, spitting up, diarrhea, jaundice, etc., and no urinary tract symptoms can be seen, so it is very easy to misdiagnose. A small number of urinary tract infections are caused by congenital malformations of the urinary organs, such as the incorrect shape of the kidneys, the incorrect angle at which the ureters enter the bladder, etc., and require surgical treatment.

The above is my opinion on this issue. If the child has the above problems, the child needs to pay attention to take appropriate measures in time to ensure the health of the body and avoid dangerous situations in the baby's body due to this problem. Finally, I wish the baby a speedy recovery.