What to do if your baby has a fever and doesn’t sweat

A baby’s fever without sweating may be caused by bacterial or viral infections and other reasons. You should let your child drink plenty of fluids, carry out physical cooling, and if the temperature is over 38.5 degrees, you can use drugs such as ibuprofen to reduce fever. A baby’s fever may be caused by a bacterial or viral infection. Whether the fever is sweating or not, parents should let the child drink more water, more water can promote the sweat, sweat can take away the heat, which is conducive to lowering the body temperature. In addition, parents can also stick a fever-reducing patch for the child, for physical cooling. However, if the baby’s fever does not sweat and the body temperature exceeds 38.5 ℃, you can use ibuprofen for cooling treatment. However, ibuprofen may cause the child to develop dizziness, headache, gastrointestinal bleeding and other adverse reactions, should be careful to use under the guidance of the doctor. If your child’s temperature does not go down or is accompanied by other symptoms after the fever is lowered by active physical cooling, medication and drinking plenty of fluids, you need to go to the hospital in time to actively find the cause of the fever and give targeted treatment.