Causes and solutions for repeated low-grade fever in babies

It is normal for babies to have a fever. Because babies have poor resistance, any problem will cause the baby to have a fever. Therefore, many parents whose babies have repeated low-grade fevers want to understand the causes and solutions to their babies' repeated low-grade fevers in order to prevent them from causing physical harm. In order for you to understand it more clearly, please take a look at the following introduction.

Causes of low-grade fever in babies

Physical reasons: The baby's metabolism is fast, and body temperature fluctuations within 1°C are considered normal.

Dietary factors: The baby has indigestion and food accumulation. He is likely to have symptoms such as low fever, loss of appetite, and vomiting. At this time, you may need to make dietary adjustments or use digestive medications to treat it.

Infectious low-grade fever: After the baby becomes ill, due to insufficient treatment, the disease will recur and there will also be intermittent low-grade fever.

Low fever after infection: After the baby suffers from infectious diseases such as measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, bacillary dysentery, and Japanese encephalitis, the function of regulating body temperature has not fully recovered, resulting in persistent low fever.

Chronic infectious low fever: such as tuberculosis, chronic tonsillitis, otitis media, sinusitis, urinary tract infection, etc., which cause the baby to have continuous low fever.

Non-infectious low fever: If your baby has blood diseases, endocrine and immune system diseases, he may have a low fever.

Next, let’s see what to do if your baby has a low fever.

What to do if your baby has a low-grade fever

Drink fluids: to promote sweating and prevent dehydration. Water has the function of regulating temperature, which can lower body temperature and replenish water lost in the baby's body. The best way to check if your baby is drinking enough water is to see if the color of his urine is clear.

Hospital treatment: If your baby has a low-grade fever for more than a week, you'd better take your baby to see a doctor. The doctor should choose blood drawing, X-ray, B-ultrasound and other examination methods based on the baby's symptoms. If your baby has a low-grade fever for more than 2 weeks, your doctor may need to do more in-depth examinations.

Diet therapy: Pay more attention to your baby's daily diet, add more variety to the food, try to make sure the food is soft and well-rotten to ensure your child's nutrition. You should eat milk, meat (you can eat chicken, fish, etc.), vegetables (more green leafy vegetables), etc., while controlling snacks.

In addition, if your baby has a low fever due to infection, the doctor will prescribe antibiotics for treatment after diagnosis. You will need to give your baby a course of treatment (usually 3-5 days or after the temperature returns to normal for 2 days). If you stop taking the medicine halfway and then use it again, it will affect the efficacy and easily cause drug resistance, and may also cause recurrence of the disease.

The above is a detailed introduction to the causes and solutions for babies' repeated low-grade fevers for many parents whose babies often have low-grade fevers. Therefore, for parents, when the baby has repeated low-grade fevers, they must pay attention to it, understand the reasons, and how to treat it. Give the child effective treatment as soon as possible so that the child can recover faster.