What to do if your 3 month old baby has a low fever

When the baby is more than three months old, he is just about one hundred days old. Although the child has undergone great changes at this time, his body resistance is still very poor. If parents cannot take good care of the child in time, the baby may become sick and have a low fever. It is very troublesome for such a young child to have a low fever because we don’t know how to take care of him. Here we will introduce to you what to do if the baby has a low fever?

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

[Introduction] Fever is very common. After the human body has a fever, it needs to be improved in time, otherwise it will cause great damage to its own health, especially excessive fever, which has a great impact on the brain. Both high fever and low fever are harmful to the brain. It must be treated in time after discovery. What should I do if my baby has a low fever?

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

Many parents don’t know what to do when their baby has a low fever. When the baby has these symptoms, they should also be careful not to improve the condition at will, as this will not be beneficial to the baby’s health in any aspect.

Method 1: Warm and wet compress

Using warm water can also help dissipate heat, and it is very simple to do -

Specific steps:

1. Prepare warm water, the hot water temperature should be around 30℃.

2. Undress the baby, wet the towel, and rub the baby's body up and down with the warm towel.

3. Change towels every 10-15 minutes.

Method 2: Ice compress

Heat is mainly transferred through the exchange of heat between ice placed in large blood vessels throughout the body and the flowing blood. At the same time, it can reduce the oxygen consumption of brain cells, delay brain cell damage, and is beneficial to the body's microcirculation.

Specific steps:

1. Put the homemade ice cubes just taken out of the refrigerator into a plastic bag, tie it tightly, put it in 2-3 layers to prevent leakage, and then wrap a towel on the outside.

2. Apply ice packs to the back of the head, forehead, armpits, neck, groin and other places where large blood vessels pass.

3. Change it every 5-10 minutes until the high fever drops.

Tips:

1. The ice bag needs to be wrapped with a layer of cloth to prevent local skin frostbite. If the baby shivers, feels cold, turns blue in the face, or has purple skin in some areas, stop using the product immediately.

2. Boy babies should pay special attention to avoid letting the ice pack touch the scrotum area.

3. Use the prepared ice bag as an ice pillow, which has a good cooling effect.

Method 3: Use a cooling patch

Cooling patches, which are popular in Europe and the United States, have now become a common cooling product in Chinese families. When a child has a fever, just stick one on the forehead or other areas where large blood vessels run to achieve the effect of physical cooling. The reason why the cooling patch can play a cooling effect is mainly because it contains high-molecular hydrogel, which uses physical principles to concentrate heat into the gel, and then takes away the heat through water vaporization, thereby assisting in local cooling to reduce fever. In addition, some natural medicines contained in cooling patches, such as mint and borneol, also have a certain cooling effect.