Body temperature – one of key indicators of activity of an organism depending on many physiological processes. The newborn child has not the advanced system of thermal control and up to 3 months the body temperature constantly changes, sensitively reacting to its fluctuations in the room or on the street.
Instruction
1. Take body temperature at the child at rest. The kid should not cry, be in wild spirits or to be physically active. If he cried and was overexcited, wait half an hour and only then take temperature.
2. Now for measurement of body temperature at newborns children use mercury medical, electronic thermometers or the temperature indicator. Mercury thermometer. By this adaptation temperature is determined only in axillary (or inguinal) the hollow. Wipe skin in a fold dry since moisture cools mercury. Then take the baby on hands and place the thermometer an armpit that the tip completely was located in a fold. Press the handle of the kid to a body and fix it the hand. Hold the thermometer that it did not drop out. Measurement by means of mercury thermometers is taken within 7–10 minutes. After completion of the procedure stir up means or take under a stream of cold water.
3. The electronic thermometer enjoys wide popularity presently since allows to determine temperature more precisely, quicker and more safely. It is simple in application, has the digital memory allowing to remember data of several measurements, and the signal reporting about the end of a procedure. However, in axillary folds it is not suitable for exact determination of temperature as very dense contact with a body is for this purpose necessary. The truth new thermometers with round rubber suckers on the end appeared recently. They allow to take temperature in armpits and even in an ear. The most modern the infrared contactless thermometer is considered for today. It is capable to determine body temperature even in a dream, without disturbing at the same time the child. At measurement of oral temperature place the electronic thermometer in a mouth under language and wait for a sound signal. The average duration of the procedure is from several seconds to 4 minutes. For determination of rectal temperature grease a thermometer tip with children's cream (it is possible vaseline) and put the kid on a back. One hand raise the child's legs, and another accurately insert the thermometer into back pass. Depth of introduction has to be about 2 cm. Before use of means attentively read the instruction since this depth can be different depending on a thermometer design. You hold the thermometer between index and average fingers, holding with others buttocks of the kid.
4. The temperature indicator is a strip with the small squares or divisions, sensitive to heat, having digital marks, and changing color at temperature change of a body. Apply a strip indicator to the child's forehead approximately for 15 seconds. There are means which need to be placed under language. Indications of measurement can be recognized by the last small square which changed color and the corresponding designation on it. The similar method gives exact evidences about temperature increase only if it exceeds 37.5 degrees.