Vaccination as a cause of fever
You or your baby has had a vaccination and now has a fever? Fever can also occur after vaccinations. However, this is a normal and usually harmless reaction to the vaccine (including fever in babies after vaccinations)
Common causes of fever in babies
Any infection causes fever in babies relatively quickly. This is a protective reaction of the body.The increased body temperature is intended to stop the proliferation of pathogens and also to activate the immune system. However, high fever above 39° Celsius leads to certain proteins in the body, the enzymes, no longer being able to work properly and important bodily functions are impaired.
Apart from infections, there are a number of other causes that can cause fever in babies. The body’s own temperature regulation is not yet fully developed in babies. For this reason, they find it difficult to adjust to rising outside temperatures and the body reacts with fever.
Parents must therefore be careful not to expose their babies to high temperatures, such as direct sunlight, too warm blankets when sleeping or high ambient temperatures. Would you like more detailed information on this topic? Would you like to know how you can lower your baby’s fever? Or when it can become dangerous? Then you should definitely read our main page: Baby fever – Everything about the topic!
Common causes of fever in infants
Young children suffer from fever much more often than adults. This is completely normal and nothing to worry about. Frequent fever in infants is due to the fact that, unlike adults, children do not yet have a fully developed immune system.
Therefore, even mild infections and simple colds quickly lead to high fever. Common causes of fever in small children are often classic childhood diseases. These are infectious diseases such as scarlet fever, mumps, chickenpox, measles or rubella.
Most people become infected with the pathogens that cause these diseases in childhood and, once the infection has healed, usually have lifelong immunity, i.e. they do not contract the same disease a second time. Nowadays there is an effective vaccination against most childhood diseases, which can be administered by a pediatrician in the first months of life. Fever is also a common symptom of sore throats, middle ear infection or respiratory tract infections that infants often suffer from.
