Fever Infant

Fever is a condition where the brain reprogrammed body temperature above normal temperatures are above 38C. However, the real heat when the temperature is less than 38.5C. Due to the increasing demands of these temperatures the body will produce heat which would cause the baby has a fever.

In addition to damage the health of infants, in some cases there are up to cause death, tragic indeed but of course this can be prevented if we know the proper way

Fever is not a disease, fever is a symptom (fever) that something is going on in our bodies. Cough, vomiting, diarrhea, also not a disease but a symptom. Faced with these symptoms, the most important thing to do is find out what causes it.

Indeed, all children, not to mention a baby, have the ability to raise the temperature of the body as a reaction against diseases caused by germs or viruses that attack the body, that's why babies get a fever, so we as parents should give vaccinations and immunizations as soon as possible which would help protect infants from germs and virus attacks.

Also if the baby had already had a fever, here are some simple ways you can practice yourself at home if your baby suddenly of fever, such as drinking a lot, because fever can cause dehydration further compress the child with warm water not cold water because if given cold water, the baby's brain will think that the cold temperatures outside the body so the brain will tell your body to raise its temperature by shivering to produce heat.

As a result, instead of the child's body temperature down, but the added heat, if its body temperature did not show any changes in the given good febrifuge, of course, that contain acetaminophen or paracetamol.