Children sleeping at night with a temperature of 38.5 degrees may be due to colds, acute enteritis and other conditions, can be treated through medication, physical and other methods.
1. Colds: A child’s temperature of 38.5 degrees at night may be due to a cold, which is usually accompanied by nasal congestion, coughing, sneezing, etc. If it is caused by a viral infection, you can give medication such as oseltamivir phosphate as prescribed by the doctor. If it is caused by viral infection, you can follow the doctor’s advice to give oseltamivir phosphate and other drugs; if accompanied by bacterial infection, you can be given penicillin and other drugs.
2. Acute enteritis: children sleeping at night with a temperature of 38.5 degrees may also be due to eating unclean food at night, cold stimulation and other causes of acute enteritis, usually accompanied by nausea, diarrhea, abdominal pain and other symptoms, it is usually recommended that the use of ceftazidime and other drugs for treatment.
Diet should be light and easy to digest, not too hot; fever, you can take ice packs, warm baths and other physical methods to lower the temperature, body temperature more than 38.5 degrees, you can take oral acetaminophen, ibuprofen and other drugs.
If a child’s temperature of 38.5 degrees at night is not relieved, or is accompanied by other symptoms, he or she should go to the hospital in a timely manner to clarify the cause of the fever and receive targeted treatment with the help of a doctor. All of the above medications should be used under the guidance of a doctor, avoid self-medication.