How to properly handle baby’s fever?

  Babies from childhood to adulthood, more or less some fever symptoms occur, pediatric fever how to do the 6 simple and correct fever reduction method.  1, maintain the air circulation at home: If the home has cold air, maintain the room temperature between 25 – 27 ℃. You can place the child in the air circulation, so that the body temperature slowly drop, so the child will also feel more comfortable. But if his limbs are cold and he is shivering, he needs warmth, so he should be covered with a blanket.  2, take off too much clothing: If the baby’s limbs and hands and feet are warm and sweaty, it means that they need to dissipate heat, so you can wear less clothing.  3.Warm water bath: untie the baby’s body clothes, with warm water (37 ℃) towel rubbed all over the body, so that the baby’s skin blood vessels will expand to disperse the body gas, in addition to water evaporation from the body surface, will also absorb body heat.  4, with antipyretic paste: helps to dissipate heat, but for smaller children is not recommended, because young children are not easy to turn the body, ice pillow easy to cause local too cold or to hypothermia. The use of antipyretic paste can also be used, the water in the gel-like substance of the antipyretic paste can be vaporized when the heat away, there will be no excessive cooling situation.  5, drink more water: to help sweat, and prevent dehydration. Water has the function of regulating the temperature, which can make the body temperature drop and replenish the water loss in the baby’s body.  6.Use antipyretic medicine: When the central temperature of infants and children (anal temperature or ear temperature) exceeds 38.5 ℃, you can moderately use antipyretic water or suppositories.  How to use fever reducing medicine correctly?  It is true that every baby must always have fever-reducing medication at home in case of emergency, so as to avoid temporary fever in the middle of the night. Aspirin is also effective in reducing fever, but for certain viral infections, such as chickenpox or influenza, aspirin may cause Reye’s syndrome and should not be used.  Suppositories are used to plug the anus and are absorbed by the rectum, so the effect is fast and can reduce fever when the child refuses to take the medicine, which is very convenient, but the dosage should be taken in small amounts. The fever-reducing injection is the most unsafe, and some children even go into anaphylactic shock. There are many ways to reduce fever, and you can definitely lower the temperature. Parents do not have to be in a hurry and lose a lot because of the small.  It is best not to use different antipyretic drugs randomly with each other, because the dose is not well controlled, it is safer to use them individually. Also, fever-reducing drugs should not be taken more than once or the dose should be increased to enhance the effect of reducing fever. Always remember that “medicine is also poison”, any drug (including antipyretic drugs) have their certain usage, eat too much that will produce toxicity. Many parents, because they love their children, give too much fever reducer to their children, but the fever does not go down, but gets worse, because one of the toxic reactions of fever reducers is to make the body temperature rise.  In short, parents do not need to get more and more nervous when their baby has a high fever, as long as they follow the various suggestions above, observe the baby’s mobility, hydrate, and reduce the fever moderately if necessary, the body temperature can mostly be reduced, and take the baby to the doctor again in time.