At children about one year the body temperature can fluctuate up to 38.5 wasps even in a healthy state as they still form heat exchange. But most often the increased temperature is a symptom of an onset of the illness. Therefore in this case it is necessary to cause on the house of the doctor.
How to help the child at a temperature before arrival of the doctor.
In most cases children feel at temperature increase bad: begin to be capricious, feel drowsiness and irritation. Therefore first of all it is necessary to take temperature and if it is higher than 38.5 wasps, then it is necessary to put the child to bed. If it is difficult to calm you him, then as option, it is possible to put the kid for viewing the animated film.
If temperature is higher than 38.5 wasps, then it is necessary to give to the child febrifugal. The instruction for application will help to define norm of medicine. For convenience at packings of nurseries febrifugal syrups there are measured spoons or syringes for babies. Instead of syrup it is possible to put a medicinal candle in back pass. Action of a candle takes place a little more slowly, but they reduce temperature not less effectively.
Temperature at the child should be taken with frequency in half an hour to watch how it changes. The result of each measurement needs to be written down on a leaf to show then to the doctor. If to the child it is cold, cover him with a blanket if hot, undress him and do not cover. It is important to know that febrifuges quicker and more effectively begin to work in total with plentiful drink. Therefore as often as possible let's the child drink. Even if he refuses drink, give to drink to him from a spoon. Let's drink in the small portions, but it is frequent. Water, the sweetened tea, berry fruit drink can act as drink.
The child's food at temperature increase.
If the child has no appetite, then it is not necessary to feed him violently. During a disease all forces of an organism are directed to fight against a virus. Nothing terrible happens if the child badly eats in the first days of a disease. The main thing that he drank a lot of liquid.
What to do at a low temperature.
If temperature of the child does not rise higher than 38.5 wasps of degrees, then it is possible not to give him febrifugal. If the child is capricious, make to him a cool compress on the head. Use water of room temperature for a compress (not cold!) with addition of couple of drops of acetic essence in it. The compress with vinegar will relieve a headache. Rubdown by cool water of a body of the child can reduce temperature. It is also possible to moisten a sheet in water and to wrap up in it all child. Such procedure can facilitate feeling sick. The enema with cool water can reduce temperature (37 gradusovos), but more often children do not like such procedure, they begin to cry that can worsen health.