Where should I massage my baby when he has a fever?

Fever is a disease that is more common in babies. When a baby has a fever, he or she will experience nausea, vomiting, fever, and diarrhea. These situations have a huge impact on the baby, so timely measures need to be taken to treat them. Medication is not a good method for young babies. Massage can be used to treat them. So where should you massage when the baby has a fever? Let me introduce it below.

1. Let the child lie on the bed, and the parent uses two thumbs to push back from the center of the child's eyebrows to the hairline, about fifty times.

Second, let the child lie on the bed and massage the entire spinal line of the child's back, that is, the straight line from the child's highest thoracic vertebra to the coccyx. Use the pads of the index and middle fingers to massage from top to bottom. This massage method needs to be performed hundreds of times, and it is best to do it about 200 times to be most effective. The strength used needs to be observed in the child's reaction.

Other ways to reduce fever:

1. Maintain air circulation in the home: If the home has air conditioning, maintain the room temperature between 25-27℃. You can place the child in an air-conditioned room or blow an electric fan around him to slowly lower his body temperature, which will make the child feel more comfortable. But if the limbs are cold and the patient is shivering violently, it means that the patient needs warmth, so he should be covered with a blanket.

2. Take off too many clothes: If the baby's limbs and hands and feet are warm and the whole body is sweating, it means that the baby needs to dissipate heat, so he can wear fewer clothes.

3. Warm water bath: Undress the baby and rub the whole body with a warm water (37℃) towel. This will dilate the blood vessels in the baby's skin and release body qi. In addition, when water vapor evaporates from the body surface, it will also absorb body heat.

4. Sleeping with an ice pillow: It helps to dissipate heat, but it is not recommended for younger children because it is difficult for young children to turn their bodies, and the ice pillow can easily cause local overcooling or hypothermia. You can also use a cooling patch. When the water in the gelatinous substance of the cooling patch evaporates, it can take away the heat and will not cause excessive cooling.

5. Drink more water 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.

6. Use antipyretics: When the core temperature (rectal temperature or ear temperature) of an infant or young child exceeds 38.5°C, you can use antipyretic solutions or suppositories appropriately. If you have a fever, it is best to see a doctor. But sometimes it is inconvenient to reduce the fever at home first. Generally, if the body temperature is below 38, there is no need to reduce the fever.

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