How to deal with low fever in children

If your baby often has a fever when he is young, you must take him to the hospital for treatment in time. Even when the fever is low, you should use physical methods to quickly cool the baby down. If the baby always has a fever, it is likely to cause pneumonia and pediatric meningitis, which will seriously affect the child's intellectual development. It may even cause cerebral palsy if you don't pay attention to it. So how should you deal with a child with a low fever?

1. How to deal with a baby's low fever

Fluid replacement

To help 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, and 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.

2. What causes a low-grade fever in children?

There are many reasons why children have a low fever. If the baby has no obvious symptoms of discomfort, but has a low fever, what are the reasons?

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

2. Weather reasons: It is related to the weather. The baby’s water intake is insufficient and sweating is less, which leads to higher body temperature. When the weather turns cooler, your baby's body temperature will return to normal.

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Non-infectious low fever: If the baby has blood diseases, endocrine and immune system diseases, low fever may occur.