Elderly people with fever can be reduced by physical cooling, drug cooling and other measures, while further examination of the cause of treatment.
1. Physical cooling: you can use cool towels and ice cubes to apply cold compresses to the forehead, or you can use warm water to wipe the neck, chest, inner thighs, inner arms, palms and feet and other parts of the body to achieve the purpose of heat dissipation through the evaporation of the skin to lower the physical temperature.
2. Drug cooling: If the body temperature does not recover through physical cooling, or the body temperature exceeds 38.5 degrees, you can take drug cooling treatment, you can take aspirin effervescent tablets, ibuprofen tablets, nimesulide tablets and other drugs for treatment.
3. Treatment of cause: fever is just a symptom, need to go to the hospital in time to check the cause of fever, if it is caused by influenza, can be combined with oseltamivir antiviral treatment; if there is a bacterial infection can be used penicillin or cephalosporin antibiotic anti-infection treatment.
The elderly fever, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner to check, clarify the cause of the disease, and follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment.