What to do if a six-month-old baby has a fever of 38 degrees

Children at the age of 6 months often have a high fever that won't go away. At this time, parents will be as anxious as ants on a hot pan, looking for medical treatment and medicine everywhere, and giving the child all kinds of food and drinks. In fact, this will cause a certain burden on the child's physical health. After all, the child is still very young at 6 months old. Don't panic when he has a fever of 38 degrees. First sound the alarm and do corresponding preventive work.

What are the causes of fever in newborns?

Anyone with some medical knowledge will know that fever is the body's response to resist disease, and fever can enhance the baby's own defense capabilities. So when the baby has a fever, as long as the baby's fever symptoms do not seem too serious and the baby's mental state seems good, and the body temperature does not exceed 38.5℃, parents can use physical cooling at home to reduce the baby's fever.

However, it should be noted that for babies under one month old and babies with severe malnutrition, the baby's fever symptoms are that the body temperature not only does not rise, but drops, and may be below 35°C. This situation is very dangerous and should be sent to the hospital for emergency treatment in time. There is a characteristic of fever in children: if the child's hands and feet are cold and his face is pale, it means that the body temperature will continue to rise; once the child's hands and feet are warm and sweating, the body temperature can be controlled and will drop quickly.

There are many reasons that can cause fever in babies, which can be summarized into the following three factors:

Internal factors: fever caused by cold in babies, fever caused by teething in babies.

External factors: Children's body temperature is affected by the external environment, such as wearing too many clothes when it is hot, drinking too little water, and poor ventilation in the room.

Other factors: such as babies having fever after vaccinations, etc.

Precautions

Fever is only one of the symptoms caused by the disease. When doctors talk about infant fever, they care about the impact and progression of the disease itself. However, parents usually only see the appearance of the disease, such as fever, vomiting, coughing, baby's fever of 38.5 degrees, baby's repeated fever, and they just keep asking the doctor what to do if the baby's fever does not go away.

Therefore, in some cases, in order to find out the cause of the baby's fever, the fever symptoms will continue to appear. Here we remind loving parents not to blindly ask the doctor to reduce the fever or treat the fever symptoms. Instead, you should follow the doctor's advice, accurately find out the real cause of the fever, and prescribe the right medicine.