What to do if a child has a fever at night

Generally speaking, children are most likely to have a fever at night, which is related to the sudden coolness of the weather at night. However, most parents are often at a loss when their children have a fever at night. Therefore, parents need to find a way to treat their children's fever at night as soon as possible. Let me introduce it to you below, I hope it will be helpful to you.

1. Provide more ventilation, pay attention to heat dissipation, and keep the indoor temperature between 21℃ and 23℃;

2. Let the child rest in bed and sleep more. Ensuring adequate sleep can be beneficial to the recovery of the disease. Open the blanket or take off too much clothes, wear loose clothes, and avoid wrapping yourself in a quilt;

3. Give them some fresh fruit and vegetable juice appropriately. If they accidentally overfeed, you can massage the child's abdomen to promote digestion, or eat some foods that promote digestion.

4. Apply an ice pack to the forehead, wipe the baby's joints with alcohol, take a warm bath, place the child in warm water 4℃~6℃ lower than body temperature for 5~10 minutes, then wipe the whole body dry with a large towel and gently massage the skin until it turns red; you can also use warm water at 32℃~34℃, which is not hot as the skin on the inside of an adult's wrist, to bathe the child, focusing on scrubbing the forehead, neck, armpits, groin and limbs. The whole bathing time is 10~15 minutes, until the child's temperature drops to 38℃, etc.). Generally, antipyretics such as analginic drops should be used only after the body temperature reaches 39 degrees. However, 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 toxicity reactions.

Regardless of whether the fever has subsided, parents should take their children to find out the cause of the fever as much as possible to see whether the baby has caught a cold or has a viral infection. It is unscientific to force the temperature down. At the same time, make sure your baby drinks more water, vitamin C juice, etc., and some nutritious soups such as pigeon soup, chicken soup, and fish soup, and eats light and easily digestible foods. Remember not to force your baby to eat, because after a fever, it will affect the baby's gastrointestinal digestive function, and it will be fine after recovery.

What should you do if your child has a fever at night? As mentioned above, when parents deal with fever in children, they can treat them according to the methods described in the article. In addition, parents need to pay attention to the fact that when children have symptoms of fever, parents should not rush to reduce the fever, but should find out the cause of the child's fever.