When should a patient with unexplained fever be promptly cooled?

No special treatment is usually required for patients with low and moderate fever, i.e. those with a temperature below 39°C. Patients with high fever should not use antipyretic drugs lightly and are advised to use them under the guidance of a doctor and not on their own.
However, patients who have a body temperature above 40°C, accompanied by convulsions, coma, respiratory distress and unconsciousness, or accompanied by shock, cardiac insufficiency, or high fever heat stroke, should be treated for emergency cooling, such as choosing intravenous rehydration therapy for cooling, and a few patients can be treated with antipyretic drugs if the fluid volume is sufficient, such as insufficient fluid volume and the use of antipyretic drugs, which can be due to The large amount of sweating caused by antipyretic drugs leads to water-electrolyte disturbances and hypovolemic shock, and in infants and young children with fever, more attention should be paid to the indications for antipyretic can be moderately relaxed.