What should I do if my baby has a fever after receiving the meningococcal vaccine?

In order to prevent some diseases, parents often choose to take their children for vaccination. However, due to the weak constitution of babies, they often have a fever after vaccination. This situation often scares many parents. So what should we do if the baby has a fever after receiving the meningococcal vaccine? Next, let us learn about the relevant knowledge in this regard. I hope the following introduction can be helpful to you.

After receiving the meningococcal vaccine, it is easy to have adverse reactions such as fever or diarrhea. Let the baby drink more water and apply a fever-reducing patch. If the temperature does not exceed 38.5 degrees, you can do nothing and just drink more warm water. If the temperature continues to be above 38.5, you must go to the hospital. Keep warm, wipe off sweat in time, drink more water, and change clothes.

After children receive the meningococcal vaccine and have a fever, their diet should mainly consist of liquid or semi-liquid food. The diet for older children is mainly liquid or semi-liquid food. Commonly used liquid diets include milk, rice soup, mung bean soup, low-fat meat soup and various fresh fruit juices. Drinking some mung bean soup with a small amount of sugar in summer can not only cool you down but also help replenish water. If the fever is accompanied by diarrhea and vomiting, but the symptoms are mild, you can let the patient take small amounts of homemade oral sugar and salt water solution multiple times. The preparation ratio is to add one level spoon of sugar and half a beer bottle cap of salt to 500 ml of water or rice soup. Children around 1 year old can take 500 ml within 4 hours. At the same time, you can also eat some foods that supplement electrolytes. For example, citrus fruits, bananas, etc. contain more potassium and sodium, milk and soy milk are rich in calcium, and rice soup or pasta are rich in magnesium. If the symptoms are more severe, you should temporarily fast to reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and seek medical treatment.

After a child receives the meningococcal vaccine and has a fever, he or she can be switched to a semi-liquid diet until the condition improves. As the child's body temperature gradually drops and his appetite improves, you can gradually change to a semi-liquid diet, such as lotus root powder, milk powder, porridge, egg custard, noodle soup, etc. The principle is to eat light and easily digestible food, and eat small meals frequently. There is no need to blindly avoid certain foods to prevent malnutrition and decreased resistance. Children with cough and phlegm often swallow the phlegm into their stomachs because they cannot cough it up. Severe coughing can also cause stomach discomfort. If they eat too much, they are prone to vomiting. Therefore, parents should pay special attention and not let their children eat too much, or feed them seafood or overly salty or greasy dishes, so as to prevent allergies or respiratory irritation and aggravate symptoms.

The above are the countermeasures for babies who have a fever after vaccination. Generally speaking, babies will have a slight fever after getting vaccinated, so parents don’t need to be too nervous. However, if the fever is severe or high and lasts for a long time, parents must pay attention to it. You should take your baby to the hospital immediately for a relevant check-up, and at the same time, your baby should be fed with first-class food.