| I would also recomend suppositories- our toddler gets a fever quite regularly, every time he gets a cold; and even when he is 'emotionally' upset, i.e when his sister was born.
He hates taking medicine- and so we tend to give suppositories instead of the liquid medicine...you can get pandol suppositories from watsons, they have some for babies and some for older children.
We also find that suppositories work faster at bringing the fever down.
Should the fever go above 39 and start to approach 40 (which happened to our son when he had the flu) then the best medicine is voltaren suppositories, however they can only be prescribed by a doctor and are very strong. So not to be used too often.
Our ped. said with a fever it is always best to start with the weakest medicine and then work up, if the fever doesn't subside.
He said with a high fever a baby needs to be kept cool- so no overdressing etc., even if air temp. is quite cool.
He also recomended a lukewarm bath for baby to help bring fever down.
I was also worried about frequent and high fevers 'frying' our sons brain (espec. as he also has had a febrile convulsion) but our ped. insists that fevers pose no such threat.  |