Measure its best
Fever modern medicine considers the temperature measured in the armpit, above 37.5 degrees or rectal (measured in the rectum), the temperature above 38 degrees. Measure its best conventional mercury thermometer (electronic thermometers are often mistaken by half a degree or more) for 5-10 minutes (less time measurement may affect the accuracy). Do not forget to hold the hand of the child, the children tend to drop thermometers.
In children older than 3 months at a satisfactory state of health must be reduced temp Aturi exceeding 38.5 degrees. In children, in which the temperature had seizures before, for children with severe diseases of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, as well as in children under 3 months criterion for reducing the temperature is above 38 degrees. At temperatures below the indicated figures should not reduce it.
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