What to do if your child has a fever in the middle of the night

Fever in kindergarten is a very normal phenomenon, and physical cooling methods are usually used. If a young child has a fever in the middle of the night, it will have a great impact on the child's physical condition. Parents are always worried that the fever will cause other diseases in the child. Let us now learn what to do if a young child has a fever in the middle of the night!

1 Parents should not panic if their children have a fever at night. The first thing to do is to test the child's temperature with a thermometer to see the degree of the child's fever, and then take corresponding measures.

2 If the child's body temperature is below 38.5 degrees and the child is in good spirits, you can give the child some water and rub the child's chest and back with the palms of your hands to make the child sweat and he will be fine.

3 When the child's body temperature is below 38.5 degrees, you can also use physical cooling methods, that is, use a hot towel to wipe the child's neck, armpits, palms, soles of the feet, etc. to help the baby cool down. Wiping the body with warm water is also a better cooling method, but it is not convenient to wipe the body when the baby is asleep in the middle of the night.

4 In addition to wiping with a hot towel, you can also use a cold towel to apply cool compress to the child's head. This can prevent the baby's brain from being burned when the fever occurs.

5. The family should have some antipyretic medicine for children. If the child has a fever of over 38.5 degrees in the middle of the night, the baby should be woken up immediately to give the medicine, and then the physical cooling method mentioned above should be used to help the child cool down.

6 If your child has a fever in the middle of the night and takes medicine, you should reduce or remove the baby's quilt appropriately. Don't wrap the baby in a thick quilt just because you are afraid that the baby will be cold. Wrapping the baby in a thick quilt will affect the baby's body's heat dissipation and cooling.

7. If the child has a fever of over 38.5 degrees in the middle of the night and the fever does not go down after taking antipyretics, and the baby is in a bad mental state, you should go to the hospital immediately. Do not delay the baby's condition to avoid causing other complications.

The above are solutions to problems with young children having a fever in the middle of the night. You can give your child some antipyretics or use some physical cooling methods, such as wiping the child’s body with a towel. If this method can reduce the fever in time, you must go to the hospital for treatment in time, determine the cause of the fever, and then treat it according to the corresponding measures.