What to do when your baby has a fever? Home practical physical cooling method!

1. Hot water foot soak: can be used at a temperature of about 40 ℃ of warm water to soak feet, water should not be over the ankle. Rub the baby’s two small feet, conducive to vasodilatation, but also to reduce the discomfort caused by fever. 2. Warm and wet compresses: that is, with a towel immersed in water at about 35 ℃, remove and wring out the water, applied to the forehead, every 10 to 15 minutes to replace. 3. Cover the fontanel: the baby is one and a half years old before the fontanel is not completely closed, parents can fall asleep in the baby, cover the baby’s fontanel with the palm of your hand, to the baby’s head slightly sweating. Generally speaking, cover 15 ~ 30 minutes or so the baby will sweat. 4. Rub the heart of the feet and limbs: first rub the heart of the feet, and then rub the calves, hands, arms, back, and finally the baby’s two small ear rubbing hot, and then rub the Hundred Points. After a while the baby sweats, the body temperature will come down. 5. antipyretic paste fever: with the towel method is similar, but its use is more convenient. If the baby’s body temperature does not exceed 38.5 ℃, can not be used. Precautions: 1. Give the baby to wear light clothes, conducive to heat dissipation. Never give the baby “cover sweat”, or may accelerate the baby’s body temperature rise. 2. Ensure that the baby fully rest, give the baby more water. Can drink some light salt water, is conducive to “fire”. 3, should give the baby to eat more fluid, nutritious, light, easy to digest food. For example, porridge, vegetable soup, fruit juice, egg custard and so on. Because high fever reduces the activity of digestive enzymes, affecting the baby’s digestive function, at this time to eat greasy food, not only can not be absorbed, on the contrary, it will cause vomiting or diarrhea, aggravate the body’s lack of water. 4. If the baby’s temperature exceeds 38.5 ℃ the most simple, safe and effective way to lower the temperature, or reasonable oral antipyretics. 5. When the baby fever temperature is getting lower and lower, fever interval is getting longer and longer, it means that parents can gradually peace of mind. Baby fever parents can refer to the following law, to determine the severity of the disease: if the fever cold hands and feet, pale, it means that the baby’s body temperature will rise; if the hands and feet warm, sweating, it means that the body temperature will not rise again. If the fever exceeds 39.5 ℃ or more, the spirit is poor, lethargy or have symptoms such as convulsions, should promptly seek medical attention.