Bath at a fever is not forbidden. But if the fever that affects your child, along with changes in the skin such as a fever because of mumps, smallpox, do not take a bath particularly in the active dissemination.
At a fever, the child removing the heat due to increased body temperature resulting the increase of metabolism. This is good for the ill. Usually after produce a lot of sweat, the condition began to better gradually and the fever down.
When children get fever, he usually in pernickety. Pernickety for not feeling comfortable because of the high body temperature and weak for dehidration because of many body fluids come out as sweat. Parents can help reduce the child's body heat manually in order to make children feel more comfortable. Some of the ways you can do is wipe the body surface with a wet towel. The part of the body which is important to be wiped are forehead, front and back of the neck, axilla, palm, bending thigh and foot. Another body surface may also be wiped whenever it sensed hot or just simply to reduce the inconvenience of sweating. Avoid using too cold water to the towel. Use cool water only. Water that is too cold will make too large difference in temperature with body temperature. This can cause the children suffer from cold. In a cold environment, the body will respond with contraxion vein at the edge. In fact at fever, the body requires blood vessel opening edge in order to the blood which bring calor flows fluently.
