There are many physical cooling methods for children with fever, such as warm baths, reducing clothing, using fever-reducing patches, electric fans, and so on.
Fever is one of the common clinical symptoms of childhood, children’s body temperature center is not well developed, body temperature can be affected by a variety of factors, after meals, exercise, crying, too thick clothing, room temperature is too high and emotional fluctuations, etc. can make the body temperature slightly up to 37.5 ℃ or so. If only a single body temperature of 37.4 ℃, the general condition is good, and there is no self-awareness of symptoms, is not pathological.
Normal body temperature is generally 36-37 ℃, 37.5-38 ℃ for low fever, 38.1-38.9 ℃ for moderate fever, 39-41 ℃ for high fever, ≥ 41 ℃ for ultra-high fever.
If the child’s fever is not serious, axillary temperature <38.5°C, without obvious discomfort, physical methods can be used to lower the temperature, such as the use of warm towels applied to the child's forehead, warm baths, reduce the wearing of clothing, antipyretic patches, antipyretic blankets, fans and reduce the temperature of the room, etc., which can be used to take away the body's heat through conduction, convection and evaporation, so that the child with fever can feel comfortable.
Physical cooling methods such as rubbing the body with alcohol or lukewarm or cold water are not recommended to avoid chills, goose bumps and crying, which may increase the child's discomfort.
When the body temperature reaches or exceeds 38.5 ℃ need to follow the doctor's advice to use ibuprofen, acetaminophen and other drugs for antipyretic treatment.
There are many reasons for children's fever, parents need to go to the hospital in time to find out the cause of the child's fever while reducing the child's fever, and treat the child under the guidance of the doctor.