How to recognize pediatric fever

Recognizing pediatric fever can be done by observing the child’s face, touching the forehead, and measuring the body temperature. 1. Observe the child’s face: after the child has a fever, the face may be hot, flushed, dry mouth, no spirit, this time to be alert to the possibility of fever. 2. Touch the forehead: the forehead of the child will be hot after the fever, you can feel the initial temperature by touching the forehead. If the forehead is obviously hot, the body temperature may be high, fever. 3. Measurement of body temperature: thermometer measurement of body temperature is a more accurate method of identifying fever, general measurement of axillary temperature is the most common, axillary temperature more than 37.3 ℃ can be considered fever. Suspected pediatric fever, it is recommended to take the child to the hospital in time to do the examination, identify the diagnosis and give targeted treatment and treatment.