With the recent hot and cold weather, many babies have been caught up in the big bad “fever”. So what do you do when your baby has a fever? Fever is a symptom, a normal immune response in the body, which helps to destroy pathogens and improve resistance. Pediatric fever is a common symptom of many pediatric diseases. 1, low fever (body temperature 37 ~ 38.5 ℃), not harmful to the body, for some diseases, but also help the body recovery, so there is no need to take special cooling anti-fever measures. 2, moderate fever (body temperature 38.5 ~ 39 ℃) and high fever (body temperature more than 39 ℃) if it lasts too long, it can cause damage to the body, especially to the central nervous system has a negative impact, so measures must be taken, early treatment, careful care. How should parents care for their children with fever and what should they pay attention to? In short, we need to understand the “three preferences” and “three contraindications” for febrile children, observe carefully and take care of them. Baby temperature below 38.5 you can use physical cooling such as soaking in a warm bath, drink more water, warm water baths neck, armpits, thighs, etc., these parts of the blood circulation is fast, superficial blood vessels, easy to dissipate heat, or use antipyretic paste. More than 38.5 degrees can be used as appropriate to reduce fever. Pediatric antipyretics preferred Tylenol, acetaminophen antipyretics, is currently the safest single-party pediatric applications, if not Tylenol, Merlin ibuprofen antipyretic is also possible. Fever children “three appropriate” 1. It is advisable to keep the home air circulation. As we all know, heat dissipation, mainly through convection, conduction and evaporation three mechanisms, so the circulation of air, conducive to heat dissipation and cooling. 2. It is advisable to drink more water, drinking water can replenish the water evaporated due to fever. Sweating after drinking water, the evaporation of water, can help reduce fever. In addition, increased urination can also make part of the heat carried out by urine, accelerating the reduction of fever. If you sweat a lot, you should dry it in time to prevent a cold. 3. Appropriate antipyretic measures should be used. Physical cooling is a method of reducing fever using the principles of convection, conduction and evaporation of physical heat dissipation, which is safe, easy and reliable, and is the preferred antipyretic measure. For example, opening windows and doors, or using fans to accelerate air circulation, is a method that uses the principle of convection, and can be used in all households. The view that you can’t open windows and blow fans when you have a fever is wrong. Of course, you can’t blow a fan on a sick child. According to the principle of heat conduction, ice or cold water can also be used to reduce fever head and neck, armpits and bilateral groin method. Ice, ice bags need to be wrapped in a layer of cloth outside, to prevent local skin frostbite. Swabbing with warm water around 30℃-40℃ can make the skin capillaries dilate and accelerate the evaporation of water, which is also a fairly simple method of reducing fever. When physical cooling methods are not effective, appropriate antipyretic drugs can be used under the guidance of a doctor. For feverish children, you must also pay attention to the following three taboos 1, avoid tightly closed doors and windows, too much clothing. Doors and windows closed, not conducive to air circulation, too much clothing, hindering the distribution of heat and evaporation, are not beneficial to reduce fever. 2, avoid the abuse of antipyretic drugs. Antipyretic drugs have side effects, and some can even cause white blood cell hypotension, bleeding, hemolysis and other serious reactions, more with no benefit. 3, avoid antipyretic too fast. Fever reduction too fast, too fierce, can cause a large loss of body fluids in children, causing a drop in blood pressure, and even shock, so the fever should be gentle, should not be too fast. Fever in children is only one manifestation of various diseases. The absence of fever does not necessarily mean that there is no disease, and the remission of fever does not mean that the disease has been cured. Therefore, the key lies in the treatment of the original disease. Mothers, it is important to remember: the temperature regulation mechanism of young children is very weak. The tighter the wrap, the faster the temperature rises and the greater the damage to the body. Please parents remember must must not give fever small children cover the quilt, to reduce clothing to do physical cooling, and give children more water.