How can I reduce my child's fever without medicine?

Fever is actually a healing function. The immune system, metabolism and blood circulation are stimulated and the body is doing hard work to cope with the infection are. Fever can also help your child to be healthy again as soon as possible. But high fever is also stressful for your child and, if it continues to rise (see also the third to last paragraph), and dangerous. To avoid having to resort to antipyretic drugs such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen have - or if you do not have at hand - you can also try alternative methods to reduce the fever your child. You should always be aware that these alternative procedures for reduction of fever children are exhausting. In infants and young children under 3 years, you should therefore not possible to apply. Here are some possible applications:

• Create a cool, damp washcloth on the forehead of your child, while it rests.


• Bathing your baby in the bath at a water temperature one degree lower than its body temperature. Enter to gradually cool water until the temperature is ten degrees below its body temperature. After ten minutes, take the child out of the tub and measure the fever . If the fever be dropped, you can repeat the process after a while - but only if the child does not freeze! Rub your child's body parts that feel hot, with a wet sponge. When the water evaporates on the skin, and creates cool the fever is reduced. Do not use too cold water. It may mean that your child shivering in the cold and the temperature rises. Similarly, you should your child do not rub with rubbing alcohol (an old-fashioned remedy for fever). It can cause an increase of fever and possibly even alcohol poisoning.
  


• Offer your child plenty of fluids and cooled food to, such as ice cream and yogurt, to help the body to cool off from the inside and to have enough liquid.


• Use a fan. Here, too, do not freeze your child. Turn the fan on a low setting. The air should not be aimed directly at your child, but let the air circulate around your child.


• Observe your child closely. If it is very hot, undressing his upper body and cover it with only a bed sheet. It begins to freeze, or getting chills it, pull it back a little and cover it with a warm blanket.


• Stay at home in a cool place. Or if you're outside, find a place in the shade.

Call your doctor immediately if your child is younger than 3 months and has a fever over 38 degrees.
When a baby is 3-5 months old, call a doctor if the fever to well above 38.5 degrees Celsius, or more increases.
If it is 6 months or older age, you need the advice of a doctor if the fever to 39.5 degrees centigrade or more rises. No matter how old your child is, call a physician immediately if fever is not only but also other serious symptoms indicating such as difficulty breathing or red spots on his skin is or can not bend the chin to the chest. You could be a sign of a serious bacterial infection. To your child for symptoms of colds and flu - fever, apart from - to help you look at our list of 10 safe home remedies to soothe a sick child .