Water compensation for children
When a child has a fever, the body is particularly susceptible to sweating. At this time, parents need to pay attention to supplementing a large amount of water for children so that the body does not fall into water shortage.
You can give your child plenty of warm water than normal, which can increase the amount of urine in the child, promote the release of toxins from the body and prevent dehydration.
Supplement vitamin C
Orange juice and vitamin C-rich fruit juices such as grapefruit, tangerine . are good drinks to help your baby increase resistance to be able to resist pathogens from outside. In addition, fruits such as grapes, watermelon, chilled dragon fruit . also provide water to soothe the body.
Use a warm towel to wipe your body
When a child has a fever, signs of full body heat, parents can use warm water to clean the body. This can cool children, especially the underarms, forehead, palms, soles of the feet and can be rubbed many times, the water temperature is about 37 degrees.
Soak the feet of warm water
When children have a fever, parents can use warm water to soak their feet to cool them. Water temperature of about 40 degrees is suitable. When soaking, soaking wet feet, the first thing parents can do is rub their ankles, making the water wet from less to more.
Let your baby wear cool clothes
Children are still feverish but still play flexibly, eat well, drink enough water and especially go to the toilet, urinate normally, you do not need to give your baby medication. The way to reduce a fever at home for children in this case is to let your child wear loose-fitting clothes so that the body will release less heat to help reduce fever.
Note : In case of a high fever of 38.5 degrees, parents should let their children see a doctor for timely treatment