An ambulance should be called urgently if the body temperature rises above 38 ° C in infants under three months of age. About this in a conversation with RIAMO knowledgeable Elena Nechaeva, ambulance doctor of JSC “Medicine” (Academician Roitberg clinic). As for children older than three months, the specialist added that the reason for the call for emergency help is a fever above 38.5 ° C, especially in the presence of a history of seizures, CNS pathology, as well as heart and lung defects.
“The reason for calling an ambulance for children of any age will be if the temperature is above 38.5 °C and up to 40 °C. Usually in children and even adults, an increase in temperature up to 40 ° C in the first two or three days against the background of the treatment of viral or, more often, bacterial infections, requires only the use of heavy drinking and antipyretic tablets, suspensions that parents can give, or 4-5 in a row until the day adults can take it themselves, ”said the doctor.
Nechaeva concluded that a gradual decrease in temperature will occur within 1.5-2 hours after the use of antipyretic.
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