Children with high fever from tonsil surgery can take physical cooling, if the fever exceeds 38.5 ℃, then need to take medication.
When children have high fever after tonsil surgery, it is considered to be caused by transient bacteremia, in which case the body temperature usually does not exceed 38.5℃. Parents are advised to wipe the child’s body with a towel moistened with warm water to help the child cool down, and also need to increase or decrease the child’s clothing appropriately and pay attention to indoor ventilation.
If the child’s temperature exceeds 38.5 ℃ or persistent high fever, consider the possibility of postoperative infection, parents can use cephalosporins or penicillins under the guidance of the doctor to give children anti-infective drugs, and oral acetaminophen granules, ibuprofen suspension and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
In addition, parents can also follow the doctor’s instructions to the child to use compound borax gargle, compound chlorhexidine gargle and other gargles with anti-inflammatory effect.
When children have fever after tonsil surgery, parents should take their children to the doctor in time and follow the doctor’s advice.