Physical as well as medication options are available for lowering the fever to 39 degrees in the middle of the night.
1. Physical cooling, mainly through the conduction of heat dissipation, such as local cooling can be used ice packs, antipyretic patches to assist in cooling, or the whole body rubbing alcohol, etc. to achieve the purpose of cooling.
2. Drug cooling, can take drugs such as acetylsalicylic acid, ibuprofen, acetaminophen and other antipyretic and anti-inflammatory drugs.
Fever is just a symptom, fever caused by more diseases, some may be life-threatening, regardless of the use of the above cooling methods after the temperature has not dropped should go to the hospital in a timely manner to improve the relevant examination to identify the causes of fever, targeted treatment to prevent delays in the condition.