Baby's constitution is relatively hot, so it often occurs. Fever is the most worrying thing for parents. If the fever is severe and cannot be reduced in time, it may burn the brain and nerves. There are many reasons that can cause a fever, and parents need to treat their baby according to the cause of the fever. So, what should a thirteen month old baby do if they have a fever of 39.5 degrees?
39.5 degrees is already a high fever, and the baby's fever is so severe that it needs to be reduced in a timely manner. You can take antipyretic medication. If the effect of reducing fever is not very good, you also need to cooperate with physical fever reduction. Parents can use warm water to wipe their baby's body, and also use medical alcohol to wipe their baby's armpits, neck, and groin area.
There is a reason for a baby's fever, and parents need to take the baby to the hospital for blood tests in a timely manner after Tibetan fever reduction to see what causes the fever. If fever is caused by inflammation, timely anti-inflammatory treatment is needed. Antipyretic drugs can only temporarily reduce fever. To truly reduce fever, it is necessary to treat the disease fundamentally. In addition, parents should be careful not to use antipyretic drugs indiscriminately and take them every 4 hours.
It may also occur during the baby's teething period, but the fever will not be very severe. If the fever does not exceed 38 degrees and is only low-grade, parents do not need to worry. They can apply antipyretic patches to the baby to physically cool down. Baby will sweat when cooling down, parents need to change their baby's clothes in a timely manner, and also need to give the baby plenty of water.
