How to treat a child with a high fever of 40 degrees?

Some children have weak constitutions and need careful care from their parents. Once they get sick, they need timely treatment to ensure their health. Some children have fever, and it is a high fever. If the children are not treated in time, it is easy to cause dangerous situations for the patients. So how to treat a child with a high fever of 40 degrees? Let me introduce it below.

When a child has a fever, physical cooling is recommended. If the temperature is below 38.5 degrees, you can bathe frequently with warm water and wipe the skin of the limbs and back with a warm towel until it flushes (the skin on the chest, abdomen and neck is sensitive and easily irritated and causes chills, so don't wipe it). Do this every 20 minutes or so to effectively reduce the temperature. You can even give your child a bath with warm water, just be careful not to let the child catch a cold again. If the temperature is above 38.5 degrees, it is recommended to use Motrin (ibuprofen) to reduce fever, which is very effective. If there is no sweating and fever reduction one hour after taking Motrin, and the body temperature even rises above 39, you can use some 30% alcohol to wipe the body to reduce the temperature (but the skin of infants is delicate and alcohol is very irritating, so it is not recommended for infants). If it still doesn't work, you may need intramuscular injection of antipyretics and further treatment

Antipyretic analgesics:

1. Fever is too high (over 39 degrees), especially if the baby has high fever convulsions;

2. Although the fever is not too high, the child has obvious headache, insomnia, impaired consciousness, and has difficulty resting;

3. Those whose heart and lung functions are endangered due to persistent fever, or those who are intolerant to high fever.

Generally speaking, if the baby's body temperature is below 38 degrees, there is no need to take antipyretics. Just drink plenty of water (small amounts and multiple times) and rest in bed. If the body temperature is above 38.5 degrees, you can use a towel soaked in warm water to place it on the forehead, armpits, thighs and other parts to cool down.

During a high fever, the motility of the gastrointestinal tract slows down and the baby usually has no appetite. Do not force the baby to eat, because the baby with a high fever needs to evaporate heat energy in the form of sweating and consumes a lot of water. Therefore, during the fever period, give your baby more water and mainly feed him liquid food.

The above is my opinion on the baby's fever of 40 degrees. If the baby has the above problems, the child needs timely treatment, so as to ensure the health of the child and avoid the dangerous situation of the child due to the above problems. If there are problems, timely treatment is required. Finally, I wish the child good treatment.