What is the reason for the baby's temperature to be too low after taking antipyretics? What should I do if the baby's temperature is too low after taking antipyretics?

Many parents are worried when their baby has a fever. Young children have weak immunity. Adults may be fine after taking antipyretics, but babies may have abnormalities. For example, if a baby's body temperature is too low after taking antipyretics, what is the reason and what should be done?

What happens if the baby's body temperature is too low after taking antipyretics?

When children have a high fever, it is easy for them to have a low body temperature during the antipyretic treatment. The reason for this is that the dosage of antipyretic drugs is too large, or multiple antipyretic drugs are used in combination, causing the body temperature to drop too quickly. During the process of temperature drop, there is a lot of sweating, which takes away the body heat, causing low body temperature, and some may even collapse.

What to do if your baby has a low temperature after taking antipyretics

Keep warm

Stop taking antipyretic drugs and pay attention to keeping your child warm, especially the extremities such as hands and feet. You can raise the indoor temperature, which should not be lower than 28°C. Put socks on the baby, cover him with a thin blanket, and place a heating pack if necessary.

Rehydrate in time

If your baby's body temperature is too low after taking antipyretics, it may be related to excessive sweating, which takes away heat from the body. You should pay attention to hydration. You can give your child more warm water or warm fruit juice to replenish the water lost through sweating, and avoid eating raw or cold food or drinks.

Take good care

After taking antipyretic medicine, babies tend to sweat when sleeping at night. Be careful not to cover the baby too much with the quilt when he starts to fall asleep. Wait until he is in a completely stable state after falling asleep before covering him with the quilt. In addition, when measuring the body temperature, wipe the sweat under the armpits to avoid inaccurate temperature results. Don't worry, after the above treatment and care, the body temperature will gradually return to normal after a period of time.

Seek medical attention promptly

If the above methods do not work and the baby's body temperature is still too low, even below 35℃, you must go to the hospital to seek help from a doctor in time, find out the cause of the low body temperature, and take further treatment and care.

Precautions

Fever is not a disease, but a symptom of a disease. Taking antipyretics is to lower the elevated body temperature and prevent the body from being damaged by excessive body temperature, but it cannot cure the disease. Therefore, while reducing the baby's fever, the cause of the baby's fever should be found and symptomatic treatment should be given.