Tips for reducing fever in a five-month-old baby?

Parents must take good care of their five-month-old babies in daily life. Babies at this age are prone to many diseases, among which fever is a relatively common disease. For new parents, when the baby has a fever, many parents don’t know what to do. In fact, after the baby has a fever, it is best for parents to use antipyretic methods to reduce the fever in time. So what are some tips for reducing fever for five-month-old babies?

What are some tips for reducing fever in a five-month-old baby?

1. Drink plenty of water

To help sweating and prevent dehydration. Water has the function of regulating temperature, which can lower body temperature and replenish water lost in the baby's body.

2. Warm water bath

Undress your baby and rub his whole body with a warm water (37°C) towel. This will dilate the blood vessels in the baby's skin and release body heat. In addition, when water vapor evaporates from the body surface, it will also absorb body heat.

3. Clearing the Lung Meridian Lung Meridian location: the tip of the ring finger.

How to operate: pinch the tip of the baby's ring finger with your thumb and index finger, and push down from the index tip to the base of the finger 50 times to clear the lung meridian.

4. Push Tianhe Water Tianhe Water Positioning:

In the middle of the inner side of the forearm, there is a straight line from the wrist crease to the elbow crease.

Operation method: Dip your thumb in a small amount of ice water and push Tianhe water 50 times. Tianhe Water runs from the baby's wrist line to the elbow line.

5. Cold compress

If your child suddenly has a high fever at night, you can use cold compresses to help lower the body temperature. Place a cold wet towel on your forehead, wrist, and calf. When the cold compress reaches body temperature, change it. Repeat until the fever subsides. You can also wrap ice cubes in a cloth bag and place it on your forehead.

Basic ways to deal with a fever in babies:

1. Drink more warm water, vegetable juice and fruit juice

If a baby has a fever, you can let the baby drink more water to replenish body fluids. This is the most basic method of cooling down, and it is also very effective and practical, suitable for all babies with fever. However, it is important to remember not to give your baby cold water, because fever is often accompanied by gastrointestinal symptoms and cough, and drinking cold water will aggravate these accompanying symptoms. Give your baby warm water.

2. Warm water bath

A warm water sponge bath means wiping the whole body with a warm water towel. This is a good way to cool down and is suitable for all babies with fever. The water temperature should be between 32 and 34 oC, and each wiping time should be more than 10 minutes. The key areas to wipe are the skin folds, such as the neck, armpits, elbows, groin, etc.

3. Warm water bath

The water temperature is about 3 to 4°C lower than the patient's body temperature, and should be kept for 5 to 10 minutes each time.

Many parents think that babies should not be bathed when they have a fever. In fact, it is just the opposite. Giving babies a warm bath can help cool them down. A warm bath is suitable for all babies with a fever.

4. Low temperature chamber method

Place the sick child in an environment with a room temperature of about 24°C to allow the body temperature to slowly drop. In order to allow the baby's skin to come into contact with the outside air and help cool down, the baby needs to wear less clothes. If conditions permit, you can also use air conditioning to lower the room temperature. This method is suitable for babies under 1 month old, especially in summer. As long as you open the baby's clothes and put him in a cool place, his body temperature will slowly drop. If your baby has chills and shivering when having a fever, you should not use the low-temperature chamber method.

5. Cooling patch

Cooling patches are a new product in recent years and are very popular, but their cooling effects are average and not as good as exaggerated in advertisements. Put a patch on the baby's forehead, the baby's head will feel more comfortable, and parents will also feel more at ease. It should be beneficial and harmless.