How to recognize the baby\'s fever

Fever is usually caused by infection of pathogenic microorganisms such as viruses or bacteria. When the baby\'s forehead hot or uncomfortable when you look, you should consider that children may be fever, you can immediately use the thermometer to measure the baby\'s body temperature. Apart from the outside to find the high and low temperature for parents, should also be looking for cause the heat as soon as possible causes. Looking for cause should be the doctor\'s work, but the doctor only observed moments baby, infant diseases difficult to understand the whole process. When the doctor, the doctor asks to parents of the parents of one of the aims is to understand to judge roughly. If parents decide the more timely, accurate, is more conducive to diagnosis and treatment of child diseases.

For infants of fever, doctors first needs to know is whether the baby around with similar patient; the existence of similar patients, will have an important effect on disease diagnosis in infants. Therefore parents baby crowd around the first step is awareness on the prevalence of infant fever.

Fever is a defensive reaction of the human body at the beginning of many diseases. Baby smaller defense response capacity, the weak, so general easy fever of infants less than 6 months. Once the fever, that is, to see a doctor as soon as possible. Infants less than 6 months baby fever prompted heavy condition.

June-3 years old baby fever, parents should also view at any time whether the child\'s skin rash. It is necessary to observe the rash appears first of the site, to understand the rash development order. Parents also need to be aware when the infant irritability, crying, the usefulness of hand ears. This phenomenon, available flashlight watch infant ear canal, such as a liquid deposition or outflow, shows children suffering from otitis media, it is timely to the ear, nose and throat doctor. Fever most commonly associated with watery nasal discharge, sneezing and coughing in infants, this is because the symptoms caused by acute upper respiratory tract infection. But need special attention, in the performance increase at the same time there have been signs of rapid breathing fast and, then developed the illness, may be suffering from pneumonia.

Infants of fever accompanied by crying, restlessness, excitement, once converted to sleepiness or constantly upset, particularly high fever continues back, and accompanied by vomiting, often indicate central nervous system infections, meningitis is the most common.

After the baby fever, accompanied by diarrhea or vomiting, shows the baby\'s digestive system is affected. Parents need to observe the behavior of infant stool or vomitus; small glass bottles also leave a small amount of fresh samples, taken to the hospital to check. In addition, after baby fever most commonly expressed as less milk, loss of appetite. By changing diet and feeding patterns and cannot solve, should consider whether the infant oral infections, even has developed ulcers.

Understand the causes of infant fever does not mean that you can go to the hospital, parents who can provide reliable, accurate history, often contribute to infant diagnosis and treatment of disease. For inexperienced parents do not own diagnosis, treatment of fever of infants, so as to avoid delays in diagnosis and treatment of disease.