Fever in newborns just ten days old can be seen in neonatal pneumonia, intracranial infection, sepsis, other conditions, mainly through medication.
1. Neonatal pneumonia: fever can occur during the course of the disease, can be accompanied by moaning, spitting or mental, appetite and other manifestations of the general, serious cases can appear respiratory distress, considering the disease of the child such as bacterial infections, the need to use drugs such as cefdinir anti-infective treatment, fever can be used to use lukewarm water wipes and other physical cooling, hypoxia manifestations of the need for symptomatic oxygen and other treatments.
2. Intracranial infections: such as bacterial meningitis, fever can occur, may be accompanied by depression, convulsions and other manifestations, improve the lumbar puncture examination can assist in the diagnosis, the treatment needs to be actively used such as ceftriaxone sodium and other drugs to fight infection, but also the use of mannitol to lower the cranial pressure, as appropriate.
3. Sepsis: it is a serious bacterial infection, and the above symptoms can also appear, perfect blood culture examination can help to clarify the diagnosis, and need to actively use antibacterial drugs, such as cefoperazone and other anti-infective treatment.
4. Other: newborn thermoregulation center is not well developed, such as in the surrounding environment temperature is too high, the blanket is too thick or crying and breastfeeding and other circumstances to measure the temperature, there can be a phenomenon of high temperature, the parents can think of it as fever, such babies to avoid the above factors and again correctly measure the body temperature is generally normal, no special intervention, dynamic observation can be.
Just ten days after birth of newborn fever is recommended to actively consult a specialist physician to assess and give reasonable treatment. The above medications should be used under the supervision of a physician.