A child with a high fever of 39.5 degrees is not recommended to take a bath to lower the temperature.
1. A child with a high fever of 39.5 degrees is usually weak, and it is recommended to rest quietly and avoid excessive activity. Although bathing can make the surface of the body vasodilatation, so that the blood flow speed up, but should not be used as a method of cooling. Clinical cooling can be done through physical cooling and drug cooling, physical cooling is applicable to 38.5 ℃ or less, commonly used methods include warm water wiping, reduce wearing clothes and so on.
2. Body temperature of 39.5 degrees belongs to the category of high fever, if the body temperature can not drop in time can easily lead to the child to have high fever convulsions, the need for timely medication to lower the temperature, such as ibuprofen, acetaminophen and other antipyretic and analgesic drugs.
If your child has a high fever, you should go to a regular hospital in time, and the doctor will give you the rules to deal with, do not deal with it on your own, in order to avoid the adverse consequences.