Should I wake up a child who is sleeping with a fever?

Children who sleep with fever need reasonable fever reduction, such as physical cooling or medication. If only physical cooling is needed, the baby does not need to be woken up; if fever-reducing medication is needed, the baby needs to be woken up. Fever is a common symptom of pediatrics, can be seen in a variety of diseases, such as respiratory infections, intracranial infections, etc., elevated body temperature can make children produce obvious discomfort, some may be due to elevated temperature or the impact of the condition of the symptoms of convulsions, therefore, for children with fever first need to symptomatic antipyretic, children in the sleeping children should be symptomatic antipyretic, such as physical cooling or the use of ibuprofen and other drugs. If the baby’s temperature <38.5 ℃ only need to carry out physical cooling, this time there is no need to wake up the baby. Commonly used physical cooling methods include applying warm water to the child's forehead, warm baths, reducing the amount of clothing worn, antipyretic patches, antipyretic blankets, fans and lowering the room temperature. If the baby's temperature exceeds 38.5 ℃ also need to use ibuprofen, acetaminophen and other antipyretic drugs, this time you need to wake up the baby to give medication. There are many causes of fever in babies, and it is important to treat the cause of the fever in order to recover the body temperature, so it is recommended to consult a doctor in time to be evaluated and treated by a specialist. All of the above medications should be used under a doctor's supervision, avoid self-medication.