Many mothers are familiar with the situation when the child's body temperature changes within one, two, or even three degrees within one day. Since morning the kid behaves absolutely normally, active, cheerful, and after a few hours it becomes listless, cheeks are covered with an unhealthy blush, eyes shine. When the temperature of a child jumps for reasons unintelligible to parents, it makes them worry.
Causes of temperature changes
What do pediatricians say about why a child has a fever during the day? Most often, the culprits are the inflammatory processes that can occur in a baby in a hidden form. Often, the baby jumps the temperature due to ARVI, tonsillitis, inflammation of the internal organs and other pathologies. Sometimes the reason can be quite harmless and natural process. If the temperature rises in the baby, then perhaps the first teeth begin to erupt, or maybe it just overheats. Preschoolers may be feverish due to stress or long walks on a hot summer day, when the body has lost a lot of fluids. The main task of parents in this case is to recognize the symptoms. It is not superfluous to know the indicators of the body's temperature norm, so as not to panic at the sight of the next overcome division on the thermometer.
The temperature norm
First, every child has the right to an individual body temperature. It is easy to determine by measuring several days in a row in various states (before sleep, during sleep and after waking). Please note, the temperature can differ significantly if the baby is wrapped up in a warm blanket, scared, crying or overly excited. For example, in infants the norm is 37 and even 37.5 degrees. If the rest of the baby does not show any signs of anxiety, then there is no reason to panic.
Secondly, the temperature at different times of the day is different. If in the morning the child has a traditional 36.6, then the temperature peak, when the thermometer can be up to 37.2, falls at 16.00. The boundary value, after which one should already take some measures, is 38 degrees.
Shoot down the heat correctly
It happens and such that after the transferred inflammation, for example, bronchitis, the temperature of the baby jumps for a week, causing the parents to be nervous. So-called subfebrile jumps of danger do not represent, but to hand over in a week-two repeated analyzes nevertheless costs or stands.
With the temperature of infants should be careful. It can grow very significantly in a matter of minutes. Do not wait until it starts to go off scale. Today, there are well-proven drugs that will help bring down the heat. Children's nurofen, ibuprofen, panadol and other antipyretics quickly
Eugene Komarovsky recommends not to bring down the temperature to 38.5 degrees, if the baby tolerates it tolerably. This is quite logical, because lowering the temperature artificially, we reduce the protective forces of the child's body, which were only intensified to combat alien invaders.
If the temperature is too high or periodically increases, it goes down, be sure to show your child to the doctor to eliminate the cause.