Baby low fever convulsions

If the baby has a persistent low-grade fever, it will lead to complications. The most common one is low-grade fever convulsions. When this happens, parents will always panic and don’t know how to take care of their babies. In fact, at this time, you should calm yourself down and physically cool down your baby first. Only by lowering the body temperature can you prevent complications from becoming more serious. You can also give your baby some sedatives.

1. Infectious low fever

Including bacterial infections and viral infections. Such as tuberculosis infection, chronic biliary tract infection, chronic pyelonephritis, chronic urinary tract infection, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, chronic otitis media, chronic sinusitis, subacute endocarditis and HIV, etc. Among infectious low-grade fevers, tuberculosis infection is the most common, and its main manifestation is low-grade fever in the afternoon, which may also be accompanied by symptoms such as cough, fatigue, and sweating at night or after waking up.

2. Non-infectious low fever

Including hyperthyroidism, rheumatic fever, lupus erythematosus, blood diseases, tumors, drug fever, etc.

3. Other reasons

Psychological factors such as emotional instability and excessive tension can also cause central temperature regulation disorders, resulting in unexplained low fever.

Some people who work in high temperatures, pregnant women or women during ovulation may have a slightly higher body temperature than normal, but if they leave the high temperature environment or after giving birth or ovulation, the body temperature will return to normal. This is called physiological high body temperature, not low fever. Long-term low fever can be seen for many reasons, which are generally divided into two categories: organic and functional. The most common organic cause is infection, such as tuberculosis, chronic focal infection, post-streptococcal infection state, chronic viral hepatitis, systemic giant cell inclusion disease, syphilis, etc., and non-infectious causes include hyperthyroidism, rheumatic fever, lupus erythematosus, blood disease, tumors, drug fever, etc.

Functional long-term low fever includes autonomic dysfunction (primary low fever), summer fever, etc. The clinical characteristics of functional low fever are that the body temperature is 0.3℃~0.5℃ higher than that of normal people, not exceeding 38℃, and the fever type has a relative regularity: the daytime temperature difference is not large (the difference is 0.5℃), it may be accompanied by manifestations of autonomic dysfunction, all examinations are normal, and the patient's health is not affected by long-term low fever. This can be distinguished from organic low fever. Functional low fever mainly relies on long-term dynamic observation and the diagnosis is made after excluding various organic diseases.