What should I do if my baby has a fever of 38 degrees but is sleeping?

If the baby has a fever of 38℃ but is asleep, parents can first take physical therapy to reduce the fever. If the temperature does not go down or continues to rise, you need to wake up the baby for medication. If the effect of taking drugs is limited, then you need to immediately send a doctor for emergency treatment. 1, physical cooling: the most commonly used physical cooling method is to give the baby stick fever patches. Anti-fever stickers can be attached to the baby’s forehead or both sides of the neck. Through the use of antipyretic stickers, can promote the body heat evaporation, play the role of physical cooling. In addition, you can also use a warm towel to wipe the baby’s body, wipe the focus of the forehead, the sides of the neck, armpits, elbow, thighs, popliteal fossa and other arteries travel area. If after physical cooling, the baby’s body temperature gradually decline, parents can continue to take physical cooling methods to ease the baby’s discomfort, usually gradually fever; 2, medication: if the physical cooling has no effect, the baby’s body temperature still continues to rise, more than 38.5 ℃, or the baby appeared to be obvious chills, chills, the baby should be immediately awakened to the baby, given oral antipyretic drug therapy. There are two main antipyretic medications available for babies, one is ibuprofen and the other is acetaminophen. For babies over 6 months old, oral ibuprofen or acetaminophen are available; for babies over 2 months old and under 6 months old, parents can only choose acetaminophen, and usually antipyretic drugs take effect about half an hour after taking them; 3. Emergency treatment: After babies have taken fever-reducing medication, if the temperature has not dropped to less than 38.5 degrees Celsius for more than an hour, or is still rising, it is recommended that parents immediately take the baby to the hospital for emergency treatment. Regardless of which treatment is taken, the temperature must be closely monitored during the period, and it is best to measure the temperature every half an hour, while the environment is suitable to maintain at about 25℃, not too cold or too hot. In the physical cooling wipe should pay attention to, not white wine or alcohol to warm water to wipe the baby’s skin, so as to avoid alcohol through the skin is absorbed by the body, resulting in adverse reactions. In addition, during the treatment period, the baby’s diet should be based on nutritious fluids and semi-fluids, such as common shrimp congee and noodles in clear soup, in order to promote physical recovery.