Children are weak, their immunity is poor, and the climate is hot in summer. Once they get sick, they will feel worse. How to relieve the symptoms of children's cold and fever, parents must understand.
Common colds in summer can be divided into two categories: summer-heat cold and summer-heat cold.
Summer-damp cold, commonly known as "heat-cold", is usually caused by being greedy and blowing air conditioning for too long in summer, with symptoms such as stuffy nose, fever and runny nose.
Summer-damp cold can't be treated by covering sweat, which will have the opposite effect. To treat summer-heat and dampness cold, we must first eliminate summer-heat and dampness. When children have a cold due to summer dampness, they can eat more dampness-removing ingredients such as wax gourd, red beans and coix seed, and add more water, and the cold will naturally get better.
Summer heat cold, also known as "gastrointestinal cold", is a common cold that occurs easily when the climate is dry and hot in summer. It is often accompanied by symptoms such as sweating without fever, upset and thirsty, sore throat, weakened spleen and stomach function, and nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and so on.
When the symptoms of summer heat and cold are mild, it can be conditioned by ingredients. Give children more mung bean soup, eat some heat-clearing foods such as cucumbers and tomatoes, and eat less greasy food and sweets. If a child has symptoms of diarrhea during a cold, it can be relieved by oral rehydration salts or glucose electrolyte effervescent tablets.
In summer, children are most afraid of having a fever. Go to the hospital. It is often inevitable to take injections and take medicine. Don't go to the hospital, it's too painful to have a fever all the time, plus the hot weather.
In fact, fever is a self-protection mechanism initiated by the human body. When the body temperature is high, the body will automatically turn on the cooling mode. If the child has a fever, but his mental state is good and there is no convulsion, there is no need to go to the hospital at all, as long as he takes good care at home.
Many parents have heard of physical cooling. When a child has a fever, he or she lowers his or her body temperature without taking medicine. But in fact, physical cooling has no practical effect, can not achieve the purpose of reducing fever, can only make the baby a little more comfortable.
There are some widely circulated physical cooling methods, which are actually ineffective, and parents must know.
? Sweating: Excessive sweating may lead to dehydration of children. Children's sweat glands are underdeveloped, which may cause "heat syndrome".
? Wipe your body with alcohol/cold water: not only can you not reduce your fever, but it will also make your fever worse.
? Ice compress: can not achieve the purpose of reducing fever.
Physical cooling is not recommended in many countries, or only recommended for children with high fever, so physical cooling can only be used as an auxiliary method. Ordinary fever can enhance children's immunity, and generally a good rest for a day or two can reduce the fever.
However, if the baby's axillary temperature exceeds 38.2℃, or the body temperature exceeds 39℃ (no history of febrile convulsions), please use antipyretics immediately.
When giving antipyretics to children, it is best not to use different drugs alternately to avoid drug allergy or poisoning. The onset time of antipyretics is about 30 min-45 min. Parents must read the instructions carefully and pay attention to the dosage when using antipyretics. If the baby under 3 months old has a fever, please see a doctor immediately!
In the process of children's fever, in addition to using antipyretics, you can also help relieve the discomfort of children in the following ways.
? Drink more water for children: Parents can feed their children with water every fifteen minutes or so, just keep their lips moist, without too much.
? Reduce the ambient temperature: keep the room ventilated and humid, and the indoor temperature is about 25℃. When the room temperature is higher than 28℃, when the child's hands and feet are warm and sweating all the time, you can wear less clothes for the child to facilitate heat dissipation. You can also turn on the air conditioner when necessary, as long as you don't blow it at the children.
? Give your child more liquid food: High temperature will increase the metabolism of nutrients in your baby's body. Give your child more digestible liquid food, such as rice congee, to replenish water, and you can also give your child some fruits rich in vitamin C to supplement nutrition.
When a child is sick, the most distressing thing is his parents, but whether he has a cold or a fever, it is a way to improve his own immunity. If the child takes medicine as soon as he has a cold, and gives an injection as soon as he has a fever, it is not conducive to the child's health.
As long as it is not serious, the child's immune system can completely eliminate the disease. But if the fever can't go away for three days, parents must take their children to the hospital in time to find out the cause!