Children’s body temperature is usually an average of around 36.4?C, but varies from child to child and will fluctuate naturally throughout the day. It is only when their temperature hits 38?C or higher that they officially have a fever.
A high temperature is the body’s natural response to fighting infections such as coughs and colds, but as a temperature is one of the officially recognised Covid-19 symptoms and many support services have been unavailable to families during the pandemic, it is perhaps unsurprising that concern about fever among carers of young children is at a high.
In June, hospital emergency departments reported a surge in the number of young children being brought in with mild fever by anxious parents, with three times the number attending than the figure for the previous year.
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