Fever In Baby

 

My baby has a temperature. Should I be worried?

Your baby wails, his skin is hot and you suffer with enstsetzlich. But fever - a rise in body temperature than is normally expected - rarely hurts. On the contrary: It is the reaction of the body to fight off a disease.

At what temperature my baby has a fever?

Normal body temperature of an infant is 36.5 to 37.5 degrees Celsius. Babies have a higher temperature than older children and every day it rises and falls during the after midnight. Normally, one does not speak of fever in a baby if it has less than 37.7 degrees C in the morning, or 38.2 degrees C in the evening.

Why do people get fevers?

Fever is one way the body to cope with infections. Macrophages, the policemen in the body, are constantly on patrol. When they find something that is not in the body (such as bacteria, virus or fungus), then you destroy the intruder as best they can. At the same time they call for help and signal the brain to regulate body temperature up. The heat kills some bacteria directly, most viruses are thermolabile. . It also seems that the production of white blood cells and other chemical substances to stimulate the body needs to fight the foreign body following reasons or side effects could be responsible for the fever of your baby:

• In response to vaccination


• Cold


• Flu


• Sore throat


• Ear infection


• Respiratory infections (like pneumonia)


• Croup


• Urinary tract infections

How do I know that fever is dangerous?

More important than the actual temperature, the behavior of your baby. If it is almost 40 degrees Celsius is, but good food and drink, and you react to calm down easily can, then you need to worry less, than if it was below 39 degrees, but without cries or whimpers disruption is weak, poorly drinking and not responding to anything. Call the doctor if your child is behaving strangely, had seizures, or a chronic illness or do you simply worry. you need a doctor immediately if:

• the temperature of a baby who is younger than three months, rising by 37.8 degrees.


• the temperature of a baby between three and six months of 38.2 degrees is increasing.


• the temperature of a baby who is older than six months, rising from 39.2 degrees.


• every fever that lasts longer than three days.

What is a febrile seizure?

If your child's temperature rises suddenly, quickly, it is pale and stiff, twitching uncontrollably, and perhaps even faints, then it has a fever-induced seizure. It's scary to see the child but rarely hurt. Although they take a seemingly endless, a spasm usually ends at the latest after 20 seconds. If a convulsion lasts longer than four minutes, then call an ambulance or take your baby in a hospital emergency room immediately. Do not cramp your baby during a hold, or to suppress the spasms. Simply loosen the clothing and make the child a pacifier or a bottle from his mouth (it will not swallow his tongue). If it is not the first time, you usually have an anticonvulsant suppositories at home, you should then enter the rectum. After the febrile seizure, you can call the doctor.

I note that my feverish child?

Parents usually notice it when you touch the babies or kiss your brow (studies have found that the method in 75% of all cases gives absolutely correct results). For the exact temperature you take a thermometer . For children under three years, you should take none of that goes into the mouth. If your baby is too small, then measure the rectal butt. It is more accurate than the measurement under the armpit. There is about half a degree measured too low, so they expect it to in your mind.

How can I treat a fever?

You have to do anything, as long as your child does not feel uncomfortable or have ever had febrile seizures. Here are a few measures that help the baby have to deal with the fever:

• Pull him light cotton clothing (do not unpack it a, so that it exudes the fever).


• Put it in a cool room. If necessary, put a fan next to the crib, use only a sheet or thin blanket to cover.


• Give him lots of fluids. Small babies need a lot of what they normally drink - that breast milk or formula milk . If you have already introduced other liquids, then you give him water, ice, clear soups, or diluted fruit juice.
• Try a bath. Put your child in a lukewarm bath and rub his body gently with a soft sponge or washcloth. Dry the baby is not off, let the water evaporate. This is the fever within 10 to 20 minutes. You can also create hot legs in a leg wound. But they take a dish towel that you dip in warm water, wring out and wrap around the calves of her child. The child can then transfer heat to the coil, so that the temperature decreases.

Read more tips on how to reduce fever, of course. If the baby fever bad, then why not get a doctor to prescribe antipyretic suppository. Keep in mind that fever is a healthy reaction of the body, with which he defends itself against infections. Give a child under 12 years without ever consulting the doctor aspirin. This could be a rare but - called Reye's syndrome lead - fatal disease. (If Walgreens on, because there were higher doses of aspirin given to us-very rare!)

What should not I do?

• Prescribe your child no strict bed rest. Although it should not overdo it, smaller operations are quite good.


• Starve a fever not - babies need lots of calories and plenty to drink.


• Do not worry too much. Some babies have a fever and they will still magnificent. Others suffer a little, but with proper care, your baby will soon be back on the dam.