Is 38 degrees a fever for a one year old baby?

One year old baby armpit temperature 38 degrees belongs to fever. According to the fever scale, the normal armpit temperature is 36-37.3 ℃, 37.5-38.0 ℃ belongs to the low fever, one year old babies are often due to upper respiratory tract infections, toddler rashes and other diseases, but also often due to teething, vaccination and other non-disease causes. Baby 38 ℃ need to reduce the baby clothing, cover, control the environment temperature at 24-26 ℃, to avoid covering sweat, you can use warm water to wipe the baby’s palms, feet to help dissipate heat. Give your baby more water, you can drink appropriate diluted fruit juice to help replenish water, greater than 38.5 ℃ can use ibuprofen or acetaminophen to reduce fever. Timely to the baby fever can relieve the discomfort caused by fever, reduce crying, but if the fever caused by bacterial infection, need to follow the doctor’s advice to use amoxicillin and other antibiotic treatment to effectively control the fever, to avoid recurrence. One-year-old baby armpit temperature of 38 degrees, it is recommended that timely medical treatment.