It is recommended to bring down the temperature, which has reached 38.9 degrees.
Starting from 38.9, the temperature begins to harm the body itself, so parents should give the child antipyretic.
In the material, we will tell you what to do if medications do not help to achieve a persistent decrease in temperature in a child.What is fever
Fever is a physiological process, during an infection in the child's body, the amount of so-called pyrogens increases (they can get with the virus or produced by the body itself), they increase the child's body temperature by at least a few degrees so that harmful microbes and viruses died.
It is because of this that you should not rush to lower the temperature if the child is sick (you yourself interfere with the body).
But sometimes the temperature rises too much, and the antipyretic drugs cannot cope with it.
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1. There is something wrong with him
Perhaps the child took too little dose, the medicine has expired, or it is generally a fake. In this case, it is necessary to have several antipyretic drugs.
2. Other conditions not met
You can't lie with a temperature under a warm blanket in a room where it's plus thirty. Or, for example, actively engage in sports.
Parents should make sure that the child drinks enough water and is not particularly active until his temperature drops.
3. The cause of fever is not SARS
Pyrogens caused by viral infections are easily dealt with by ordinary pharmaceutical products. But if there are too many of them, the temperature may stop getting lost.This happens, for example, when a viral infection develops into bacterial pneumonia.
In this case, it is advisable to contact the child's doctor.
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