What is the reason for fever in the middle of the night

I just had a mild cold and cough during the day, but I don't know why I woke up in the middle of the night and found that I had a fever. My whole body was burning with fever and my skin was burning hot. The main reason is that people's immune function will decline at night, which can easily aggravate the condition. Therefore, once you find yourself feeling unwell, you must seek timely treatment to better avoid worsening of the condition at night. At the same time, if you have a fever in the middle of the night, it is best to take cooling measures and drink more warm water.

How to decide whether to seek medical attention?

Because there is nothing absolute in medicine, we will talk about how to deal with it under normal circumstances.

In the early stages of the disease, within 3 days, if the baby has a fever in the middle of the night or the symptoms worsen, we do not recommend that parents take him to the hospital immediately. Because there are more patients in the hospital at night, the waiting time in the hospital will be relatively longer. Children who are sick are prone to irritability, and the hospital environment is not conducive to rest, which may worsen the child's condition. It is recommended that parents first take some necessary measures at home, such as medication and physical cooling.

If the body temperature really cannot be lowered, the parents feel they cannot handle it, or the baby's symptoms worsen and the parents cannot judge what the situation is, then the baby needs to be sent to the hospital for treatment.

In this case, there is no need to seek medical attention

If a baby with fever is in good spirits after the fever subsides during the day, but only has a normal fever at night with a body temperature of 38.5-39℃, and the body temperature can return to normal after taking medicine or physical cooling, and sweating may occur, then there is no need to go to the hospital for treatment.

Because fever is a normal immune response to some diseases, especially infectious diseases. Fever and increased body temperature can kill some viruses and bacteria that invade the body. This is a normal defense mechanism of the body. Especially for fever within three days, since the fever of a common cold usually lasts about three days, during this time, if the child does not have severe accompanying symptoms such as lethargy, headache, vomiting, abdominal pain, bloating, etc., you can first give the child physical cooling or antipyretic treatment at home, without having to rush to the hospital for treatment.

What should parents do if medical treatment is not necessary?

First of all, in this situation, parents should never cover their children with blankets. Parents can try to take some necessary medication or physical cooling treatments to reduce the temperature.

Secondly, there is one situation that parents should pay attention to: when the child's body temperature is rising, that is, in the period before the body temperature reaches its peak, the child may have chills and cold palms. This is related to his fever mechanism. At this time, parents should try to rub his hands and feet to warm them up or soak them in warm water. When soaking in warm water, be sure to keep the water temperature at around 37°C, not too cold or too hot.

This situation should be seen by a doctor

If the baby's fever worsens at night and remains high, especially when the temperature reaches 39°C or even above 40°C, and the fever is severe, and after adequate physical cooling and drug cooling, the temperature still does not drop significantly, and the child is in a bad mental state: listless or abnormally irritable, crying, or has headaches, vomiting, infants and young children may hit their heads, scratch their ears, or even have convulsions or abdominal pain, bloating, you should go to the hospital in time.

Be sure to pay attention to these things when sending a doctor on a winter night

If you really need to take your baby with a fever to the hospital, if it has been more than 4 hours since the last time he was given antipyretics, you must give him antipyretics again before going to the hospital. It should be emphasized that there should be at least 4 hours between the last time you took antipyretics before you can take them again. Common antipyretics include ibuprofen and acetaminophen.

When taking your child to the hospital, do not cover him or her with too many blankets. If the ambient temperature is around 25℃ (indoors, in a car), you can just wear thin autumn clothes and autumn trousers; if you go outdoors, you still need to wear cotton clothes, but don't wrap yourself too tightly. When a child has a fever, the measures taken should be relatively or as inclined as possible to "cool down". Because when the human body has a fever, heat dissipation is the main way to reduce fever, and children will not sweat after covering themselves with a blanket. If you cover him with too many clothes and blankets, the heat may cause convulsions.