Physical cooling methods for small children commonly include warm water baths, warm water baths, and sticking hot pads.
1. Warm water bath: you can use warm water to rub the child’s forehead, neck, armpits, thighs and other parts of the body, can play a role in heat dissipation, help to reduce body temperature.
2. Warm water bath: you can use warm water to give your child a bath, also helps to lower the body temperature, but the bath time should not be too long, usually about 3 to 5 minutes, and the temperature should not be too high, basically about the same as the body temperature can be.
3. Apply antipyretic patches: you can use antipyretic patches on your child’s forehead, which can also play a role in lowering the body temperature.
Physical cooling is mainly applicable to the child’s body temperature is not very high, if the child’s body temperature is high, more than 38.5 ℃, in addition to physical cooling, but also need to actively go to the regular hospital, follow the doctor’s instructions to use antipyretic drugs, but also to find out the cause of the fever, targeted treatment with drugs.