Monday, March 01, 2010

How do I know whether neonatal fever?


The body's normal average temperature between 36 ℃ -37 ℃ over 37 ℃ is a fever. 38 ℃ following is a low-heat, 39 ℃ above is high fever.
Under normal circumstances, neonatal body temperature of the afternoon slightly higher than in the morning (0.5 ℃ or less), which is normal.
How do I know whether the fever newborns do?
Through careful observation, if the child was found face red, lips dry, sweating, Shun trouble breathing rude, nose and mouth when feeding venting heat, and then back of the hand are the amount of back and the hot hands and feet can be judged as fever.
If the thermometer used to measure, more accurate. The method of measuring body temperature should be knocking first mercury thermometer 35 ℃ below the body of mixed include mercury at one end to rely on in the armpit ,3-5 minutes.

No comments:

Post a Comment