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Fevers in babies and small children

When your child has their first fever, you as a parent will probably also feel uneasy. You make sure to check their temperature often and keep them feeling warm. Even though you know that fevers are a normal part of life for your baby, it can be deeply worrying the first few times that it occurs.

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Recognizing fevers

Elevated temperature or fever?

36.5 to 37.5° Celsius is the normal body temperature for a healthy child.
37.6 to 38.0° Celsius is an elevated temperature but is not yet a fever.
From 38.0° Celsius and higher your baby has a fever. When your child is older 38.5 is considered the minimum for a fever, so babies are a bit more sensitive.
From 39° Celsius or higher, it is considered a high-grade fever.

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Signs of Fever

Red, hot face
Cool, pale skin
Tired eyes
Sleepy and weak
Grouchy mood
Little to no appettite
Sometimes vomiting or diarrhoea
Changing crying patterns (with a baby)
Sensitive to touch

But watch out: Despite having a fever, your child can still be in a good mood. The signals can appear individually, in combination, or not at all.

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Properly measuring a fever

There are different ways to measure your child's fever. All have their own different advantages and disadvantages as well as different levels of exactness.

Where can you measure a fever?

The inner ear
The forehead
The rectum
In the mouth
Under the armpits

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Preventing Colds

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How can I prevent my baby or small child from catching a cold?

A relaxing bath

Baths indirectly prevent colds, by relaxing your baby. With a relaxed body, the immune system can work effectively to fight infections.

The optimal bath temperature for babies is between 36.5 and 38.0 °C. The optimal bath length depends on your child. You should bathe your child as long as they are having fun. A good rule of thumb is 5 Minutes for a child from zero to four months old and then five extra minutes for each additional month of age. The bathing fun is over when the bathwater becomes too cold or when the skin of your baby begins to wrinkle.

Immediate warmth to prevent chills

When you take your baby out of the bath, they will experience a dramatic change in temperature over a very short time. This is dangerous because babies cannot yet regulate their body temperature the way that an adult can.
This change in body temperature can put your child at great risk of catching a cold. For this reason, it is important to heat your bathroom. It is even better to put your child under a radiant heater. Here your baby can be comfortably dried down and dressed up.

Ensuring a good atmosphere

It is not a secret, that the right air has a large impact on our well-being. When it is too cold, our body begins to cool down and then the chance of illness increases. But also, overheating the room is not good either as it can cause sweating. If you sweat and then move into a colder room the danger of illness is even greater than before. Air that is too humid or dry also has a great effect on the well-being of your baby (an air heater can help with that). As with most things in life: somewhere in the middle is best. Thus, regularly air out your room and pay attention to the climate of your room, at best with a thermometer and hydrometer.

What helps against colds?

Which house remedies help your child with their cold?

Winter can mean snow, sledging, freedom, and fun for your child, but the chilly season also brings with it illnesses, sore throats, fevers, and the flu. If winter sickness comes and nothing is working, then you can use these simple home remedies to soothe your child's symptoms. Don#t worry, being sick is a completely normal part of being a kid, each child has about 8-12 sicknesses per year. An effective house remedy is safe, cheap, and helps reduce the painful symptoms that your child has to face. Most importantly, the ingredients can be found in almost every household.

Lots of Fluids

With a high fever, your child loses lots of fluids, therefore it is important to consistently offer your child plenty of fluids when they have a cold. Ideally, offer your child water, juice or tea every 30 Minutes. With infants, you can offer them milk more often than normal. If you are unsure whether your child has had enough fluids keep track of how often you need to change them.

Adequite Humidity

Frequent flu symptoms like congestion, coughing, and a sore throat often make breathing harder than normal. Succicient humidity can help your child with these symptoms so that breathing can be made easier.

Onions

Both onions and garlic have been used as a house remedy around the world for hundreds of years. If your child or baby is suffering from a cold, simply half a normal brown-skinned onion and lay the two halves near the bed of your child. The onion should catch the viruses and bacteria out of the air and thus help your child fight through their cold symptoms.

Warm Tea

Tea made from honey, lemon, and ginger can alleviate colds with coughs and sniffles and keep your child warm. Honey was traditionally used in many home remedies to help relieve colds, coughs, and sniffles. For babies under 12 months old honey is not suitable (Botulism-danger!). However, after 12 months of age, it can be used to assist your child with their cold symptoms. Lemon contains vitamin C and antioxidants, which work against free radicals and strengthen your child's immune system against coughs and sniffles. Ginger is bursting with anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. It has an analgesic, calming, antipyretic and antibacterial effect and contains antioxidants for your baby.

Warm milk

If your child finds the lemon too sour or the ginger too spicy, try warm milk with a bit of honey with your child (over two years old) as a remedy for a sore throat. The sweet milk is enjoyed by children and fights the cough through the antibacterial properties of honey. Warm fluids are also helpful in soothing an irritated throat, calming coughs, and reducing sniffles.

Fennel Honey

Fennel honey is a popular home remedy for coughs for children over two years old. Its medical properties are even more pronounced than standard honey and it is enjoyed just the same by children.

Wearing face masks

Wearing a face mask does not help you if you have already caught a cold, but it does protect other people from getting your sickness.

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Caution: Hypothermia!

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