How to care for children with fever

  1, “muffled sweat” method does not apply to small children. Once “covered”, the heat does not dissipate, more detrimental to reduce fever, and may even lead to muffled fever syndrome. Covering sweat is only helpful for wind chills, but the baby belongs to the wind chill or wind fever need to be judged by the doctor, and for children with a strong constitution, the moderate grasp of covering sweat is difficult for parents to grasp, in summary, parents are advised to use the method of covering sweat carefully, especially for infants and children, do not!  2, children with fever recommended the following two specific methods: warm water application and reduce clothing. Air conditioning around 26 ℃ – 28 ℃ to help dissipate heat.  3.When the body temperature does not rise above 38,5℃, fever can mobilize the immune system such as the phagocytic ability of white blood cells to help the baby overcome germs. At this time, as long as the child does not feel too uncomfortable, just reduce clothing to dissipate heat, even physical cooling is not a “prescribed action”, so as not to apply warm water day and night, and even affect the child’s sleep, it would be more than worth it. When the body temperature exceeds 38, 5 ℃, or when the child is obviously uncomfortable, it means that the increase in temperature quantitative change caused qualitative change, the negative factors have exceeded the positive factors brought about by it, then it is necessary to take oral antipyretic drugs, physical cooling has also become active with the drug “prescribed action”.