What Should And Should Not Do When Children Have Fever?

Fever is a very common symptom in children. Young mothers are often very worried when their baby has a fever and are confused about what to do.
What to do when a child has a fever?
With a moderate fever of 38-38.5 degrees Celsius, the child's body can tolerate but with a high fever of 39-40 degrees C or higher in a long time can cause a child to have convulsions, causing brain oxygen deficiency.
Children with febrile convulsions are most common between the ages of 6 months and 5 years old

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A baby who has a fever above 39 degrees Celsius usually has a seizure that goes away when the body temperature drops below 39 degrees Celsius.
Therefore, mothers need to quickly reduce fever when children have high fever. Need to take off clothes for children, use antipyretics, cool down cool fever, breastfeed or drink plenty of water and take children to health facilities
Cool to cool down the baby when:
- Baby has a high fever above 40 degrees C.




- Baby has a high fever with convulsions or signs of going into seizures.
Preparing instruments:
- 5 small towels to wipe cool.
- Brass of warm water.
- Thermometer.
Perform:
- Put baby on his back on the bed.
- Take off your baby's clothes.
- Get the baby's temperature
- Hand washing.




- Prepare cool water:
Put some cold water in a brass bowl.
+ Add hot water, equal to ½ of cold water.
+ Check the temperature of the water by immersing your elbow in a tub of water, feeling warm like baby shower water.
- Wipe cool
+ Dip 5 towels into the water and squeeze dry.
+ Put 2 towels in the armpit, 2 towels in the groin and 1 wipe all over the body.
+ Do not apply to the forehead because it has less antipyretic effect. Do not apply on chest because of increased risk of pneumonia.
+ Change towels every 2-3 minutes.




+ Monitor the water temperature, add hot water if it is no longer warm.
+ Take baby temperature every 15 minutes, stop cooling off when the temperature is below 38.5oC.
+ Dry and wear thin clothes for children.
What not to do when children have a fever?
- Do not warm, wear layers of clothes for children when they have a fever.
- Do not squeeze lemon into baby's mouth and eyes.
- Do not use ice to wipe blood to reduce fever.
- Do not pull the hair, patting the child when the child is convulsing, making children more excited and convulsive.

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