How to deal with a child with a fever of 38 ℃

Children with fever 38 ℃, need to strengthen care, symptomatic treatment (such as physical cooling) and causative treatment (such as viral infections caused by acute upper respiratory tract infections can be oral antiviral combination of the four seasons) treatment.
1. Enhanced care: children with fever of 38 ℃, should pay attention to rest, drink more water, appropriate according to the room temperature, increase or decrease clothing, pay attention to the ventilation of the room and so on.
2. Symptomatic treatment: for children with fever, body temperature of 38 ℃, usually using warm water wiping, warm baths and other ways of physical cooling, and dynamic monitoring of body temperature, such as a persistent rise in body temperature over 38.5 ℃ or due to fever produced by the discomfort of the symptoms are obvious, can be used under the guidance of the physician antipyretic ibuprofen and other symptomatic antipyretic drugs.
3. Treatment of the cause:
(1) Infectious diseases: such as acute upper respiratory tract infections, the above symptoms can occur, mostly accompanied by nasal congestion, runny nose and other symptoms, such as viral infections, mostly self-limiting diseases, can be taken orally antiviral combinations, bacterial infections need to be used in the use of antibacterial drugs such as cefaclor treatment. If tuberculosis can also appear the above symptoms, can use rifampicin, isoniazid and other drugs anti-tuberculosis treatment.
(2) non-infectious diseases: such as acute leukemia, the disease can be repeated fever, fever type is not certain, accompanied by skin and mucous membrane hemorrhages, etc., bone marrow aspiration examination can assist in the diagnosis, considering the disease requires the use of drugs (such as vincristine, etc.) chemotherapy and other treatments.
Children with fever of 38 ℃ can be seen in a variety of diseases, it is recommended to actively consult the doctor, under the guidance of specialized physicians. The above medications should be used under the supervision of a physician.