It’s never easy dealing with a fever in your baby – the higher the thermometer reading climbs, the more worried we get, and with good reason. We hear so many things about fevers, a lot of them conflicting, that it’s hard to keep your wits (and the facts) about you when your little one’s temperature spikes. As an experienced paediatric intensive care nurse, I can clear up some of the confusion and give only the facts about fever and our babies.
FALLACY: THE BODY’S TEMPERATURE NATURALLY WAVERS BETWEEN 36 AND 38°C In fact, anything over 37.5°C is not the body’s normal physiological temperature. The body’s natural response will be to sweat in higher temperatures, cooling the body down to remain under this cut-off.
The most accurate way to take a temperature is with
