What to do when your 5-month-old baby has a fever of 37.6 degrees

5 months old baby 37.6 degrees let it drink more warm water, warm water swabbing, clean care, monitoring body temperature, timely medical care. 1. Drink more warm water: baby temperature 37.6 ℃ for the state of hypothermia, temporarily without medication physical cooling, give it more warm water to promote blood circulation and heat dissipation, will have the effect of lowering the body temperature. 2. Warm water swabbing: use warm water to wipe the baby’s palms, feet, forehead, armpits, groin and other places where blood vessels are more abundant, is conducive to lowering the body temperature, but also can be placed on the forehead antipyretic stickers, there will be a certain effect of lowering the temperature. 3. Clean care: body temperature 37.6 ℃ after physical cooling may sweat, with a warm towel repeatedly wipe the body is easy to sweat parts, sweating more wet clothes in time to replace the clean clothes. 4. Monitor the temperature and timely access to medical care: to closely monitor the changes in body temperature, elevated body temperature or poor mental health and other symptoms, the need for timely access to medical care, follow the doctor’s instructions to give fever-reducing drugs such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen (temperature over 38.5 ℃), if the combination of bacterial infections, follow the doctor’s instructions to give cephalosporin drug therapy. The baby’s fever does not subside but rises, poor mental health, etc., it is recommended to seek timely medical treatment.