2-year-old baby has fever and hot hands and feet

It is quite common for a 2-year-old baby to have a fever and hot hands and feet. This is mainly caused by a cold due to not keeping warm. It is recommended that mothers should pay attention to adding clothes for their babies. When a 2-year-old baby has a fever and his hands and feet are hot, he should be allowed to drink more water and wipe his body with warm water, and he should be kept warm. For specific methods of reducing fever, you can consult a doctor for advice.

If your baby's fever is below 38.5°C, you can use the following physical cooling methods to reduce the fever. If it exceeds 38.5°C, you should go to the hospital.

1. Drink plenty of water

Give your child plenty of water to replenish body fluids. This is the most basic method of cooling down, and it is very effective and suitable for all babies with fever. The reason why most parents think that intravenous infusion is effective has a lot to do with intravenous fluid replenishment. Some children are unwilling to drink water when they have a fever due to sore throat and other reasons. Drinking water is the most important thing at this time. You can choose various fruit juice drinks, but of course the best is boiled water.

2. Wipe your body with warm water

Wiping the whole body with warm water is a good way to cool down, suitable for children of all ages. The water temperature should be between 32℃ and 34℃. Each wiping time is more than 10 minutes. The key areas to wipe are the skin folds, such as the neck, armpits, elbows, groin, etc. For children with high fever or older children, a warm water bath can be used. The water temperature can be slightly lower than body temperature. Children will not be able to accept a temperature that is too low.

3. Alcohol bath

Babies' skin is very thin and alcohol is highly permeable, so it is easily absorbed through the skin and may cause symptoms of alcohol poisoning. Alcohol baths can also irritate the skin, causing capillaries to constrict and hindering heat dissipation. It is generally not recommended for children, especially infants.

4. Reduce ambient temperature

Children need to exchange heat with the surrounding environment to reduce fever. The lower the ambient temperature, the more conducive it is to reducing fever. The best ambient temperature is 20℃~24℃ (depending on the season), which is conducive to a slow drop in body temperature. For young babies, especially in summer, if you just open their clothes and put them in a cool place, their body temperature will slowly drop. If a child has chills and shivering in the early stages of a fever, it means that the child's body temperature is still rising and this method is not suitable.