Pediatric fever should be cold or hot compresses need to use different methods at different stages, generally can be divided into the stage of rising body temperature, persistent high fever stage, body temperature decline stage.
1. Rising temperature stage: usually the child’s peripheral circulation is not too good, the temperature rise stage may have chills, fear of cold feeling, this time you can appropriate hot compresses to relieve the chills, fear of cold symptoms.
2. Persistent high fever stage: into the persistent high fever stage, the child’s whole body temperature will increase, this time you can use a cold towel cold compresses, to help lower the temperature.
3. Decrease in body temperature stage: the decrease in body temperature stage will generally sweat, no longer cold compresses, you can use a warm towel to wipe the sweat, is conducive to fever.
It is recommended that children with fever should go to the hospital in time to find out the cause of the fever and be treated under the guidance of the doctor.