What to do when your newborn has a low-grade fever

Newborn babies with low fever may be due to physiological elevated body temperature, may also be caused by dehydration fever, and may be caused by infection, different causes, different treatment methods.
1. Physiological factors: the newborn’s body temperature is easily affected by a variety of internal and external factors, such as the child has just cried, or the environment temperature is too high, may lead to the baby’s body temperature transiently increased, generally without special treatment, the child quiet down, the environment temperature will naturally return to normal.
2. Dehydration fever: dehydration fever is a kind of dehydration, resulting in reduced evaporation of water from the skin, body heat dissipation, which leads to fever, the disease can also lead to neonatal hypothermia, treatment should be given to the child to supplement the water, and let the child out of the high temperature environment can be relieved.
3. Infection: newborn immune system is not yet well developed, viruses, bacteria and other pathogenic microorganisms can invade the body, resulting in newborns with low fever symptoms, treatment, if viral infections caused by more symptomatic treatment can be taken, such as warm water baths and other physical methods to lower the temperature. If there is a bacterial infection, you need to use amoxicillin and other drugs for anti-infection treatment.
After eliminating physiological factors, if the symptoms of low fever in newborns continue to be unrelieved, it is recommended to consult a doctor to find out the cause of low fever and ask the doctor to deal with it. If medication is needed, follow the doctor’s instructions.