Newborn fever needs symptomatic treatment, including physical cooling, medication and cooling treatment, at the same time need to consult a doctor in time to clarify the cause of the cause of treatment.
1. Symptomatic treatment:
(1) Physical hypothermia: Physical hypothermia can be achieved through warm water baths, antipyretic patches, or lowering the environmental temperature and other measures.
(2) Drug antipyretic: when the temperature of the newborn is lower than 38.5 ℃, physical cooling can be used, but if the child’s temperature is more than 38.5 ℃, then the drug antipyretic should be taken, such as acetaminophen, ibuprofen and so on.
(3) Heat dissipation treatment: attention should be paid to avoid excessive wrapping, because the neonatal thermoregulatory center is not yet fully developed, excessive wrapping may lead to reduce heat dissipation and increase body temperature, while appropriate water to facilitate body heat dissipation.
2. Treatment of cause: newborn fever should be timely consultation, clear cause of the targeted treatment or treatment, such as urinary tract infection caused by fever, available ciprofloxacin anti-infection.
Pay attention to the observation of the child’s condition changes, if necessary, timely to the hospital, after a clear cause to give targeted treatment. The above medications should be used under the guidance of a doctor, avoid self-medication.