When taking the temperature of a newborn, a mother should pay attention to the following things to avoid errors during the measurement or delayed treatment.
- When taking the temperature, try to keep the newborn quiet and not cry, so as to avoid errors in the measured data.
- Newborn has a high body temperature after feeding, so it is necessary to avoid this period when taking the body temperature of newborn.Also, do not take your temperature after bathing a newborn, as it will be lower after bathing.
- if the temperature of the newborn is higher than 99.5℉, parents should first observe whether to give them too much to wear, if the newborn wear too much, you can take off the clothes after, the baby may have a temperature drop;If the newborn does not wear much clothing, but the temperature is above 100.4℉, it may be a fever.
- Generally, the temperature in the afternoon will be slightly higher than that in the morning. If you want to record the baby’s temperature, you can take your temperature at a fixed time such as after getting up, before bathing or in the evening, about three times a day.
- If the baby has a fever, when the mother takes the baby to see a doctor, she must inform the date, time, temperature change, fever frequency, number of days and related diseases of the baby, so as to provide reference for the doctor.
- the newborn due to poor temperature regulation function, the disease is not necessarily manifested as fever, but may be unexplained crying, do not eat, vomiting and diarrhea, pale, green, etc., at this time should also be sent to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment.
- the newborn is too small to cooperate with the temperature measurement, body temperature has fever, please go to the hospital for diagnosis in time.
