How to do if the child has a fever? In daily life, mothers are very concerned about all the problems of their babies. Once the baby has any discomfort, they will immediately find a way to solve it, so that the baby can grow up healthily and sturdily. Next, let me show you what it feels like to have a fever.
How is the child having a fever? How is the child having a fever?
As long as the child is in good spirits and his body temperature does not exceed 39.5 degrees Celsius, he can handle it himself. A child's fever has a characteristic: as long as his hands and feet are cold and pale when he has a fever, it means that his body temperature will rise. If the child's hands and feet are warm and sweaty, the body temperature can be controlled and will soon cool down. Parents can deal with their children's fever in the following ways:
1. For babies before one and a half years old, the front fontanel is not completely closed. After the child falls asleep, parents cover the child's front fontanel with the palm of an adult's hand until the child's head sweats slightly. Look at the baby at this time, the nose is open, the breathing is heavy, and the body temperature is falling. Parents will wake up the baby again, feed more warm water or feed it again. Before my child was one year old, several colds were treated in this way. The shortest time was 15 minutes, and the baby broke out in sweat, and the cold symptoms quickly eased. The longest time I used it for an hour and a half, my hands were numb, and finally my baby sweated. Therefore, when parents cover the front fontanelle with their palms, don't worry. It's better to use their father's hands. Men have more calories, and babies sweat easily.
Most children still have a fever because of a cold. When the child has a fever, his hands and feet are cold, his tongue is white, his face is pale and his urine is pale. Parents can use ginger and brown sugar water to drive away the cold, and the effect is good. For children with fever, add 2-3 slices of chopped green onion to ginger brown sugar water, boil it with ginger syrup and give it to children. Chopped green onion has the effect of sweating.
3. If the child has a fever, his hands and feet are not cold, his face is red, his throat is sore, his tongue is yellow or red, his urine is yellow, his smell is heavy, and his eyes are red, indicating that the child is hot and cannot drink ginger and brown sugar water. He should let the children drink more warm water, or he can add a small amount of salt to the water to make it into light salty boiled water, which can eliminate excessive internal heat. Only by drinking more water can children pee more times.
Parents of children over 4.2 years old help their children massage. First, rub the soles of your feet, guide the heat to your feet, then rub your feet, then rub your calves, up and down, rub your calves, then rub your small hands, arms and back, finally rub your two small ears, and then rub Baihui point in the middle of your head. Parents should not work too hard when massaging their children. Don't worry, let the children drink more warm water while rubbing. If you still have a fever, you can wipe your child's whole body with warm water, and wipe your child's skin with a towel for redness, swelling and heat dissipation. If the child's hands and feet are still cold, it means that the child has a serious cold. You can give your child more ginger, brown sugar and onion water for several times in a row. After this treatment, children can calm down with many partners.
I remind parents that drinking onion ginger brown sugar water and massage to treat fever means drinking onion ginger brown sugar water first and then massage.
What should I do if my child has a fever?
When a child has a high fever, the following physical fever reduction methods can make the child feel more comfortable:
1, Reduce clothes and quilts: Remember not to wear too many clothes and cover the children with too thick quilts when they have a fever. This traditional sweating method is not conducive to heat dissipation and fever reduction, but will lead to febrile convulsions due to overheating. For many small treasures, as long as they reduce their clothes, they can lower their body temperature.
2, drink plenty of water: help to sweat and dissipate heat. In addition, water also has the function of regulating temperature, which can lower the body temperature and replenish the water lost by the body.
3, cold compress method: this method is simple and easy, apply a cold towel to the forehead, after the towel becomes hot, soak it in cold water and then apply it. For older children, it is best to apply cold water bags or ice bags.
4, whole body warm water bath or bath: untie children's clothes, wipe the whole body with warm water (about 37 degrees Celsius) towel or bath, which can expand skin blood vessels and increase heat dissipation; In addition, when water evaporates from the body surface, it also loses some heat.
5, low greenhouse method: put the sick children in an environment with a room temperature of about 26 degrees Celsius, so that the body temperature drops slowly. In order to keep the skin in contact with the outside air and cool down, it is necessary to wear less clothes. If conditions permit, air conditioning can be used to lower the room temperature. This method is suitable for babies under 1 month, especially in summer. As long as the baby's clothes are open and placed in a cool place, his body temperature will gradually drop. If the baby has a fever accompanied by chills and chills, you can't use the low greenhouse method.
Preventive measures for children's diseases and fever
It doesn't matter if it's below 1 38.5 degrees Celsius, but it can't be taken lightly. It is necessary to observe the child's mental state at any time, measure the child's temperature at any time, and often feed the child with water. Don't dress the children too much. To keep the room ventilated, the baby should prepare antipyretics at home after 6 months.
2. The body temperature is between 38.5 degrees Celsius and 39.5 degrees Celsius. Take antipyretics according to the instructions. After taking the medicine 10 minutes, add clothes to the child. After half an hour, take off these extra clothes and wipe them with warm water. You will see that the sweat will come out immediately, and the child's temperature will slowly drop at this time.
3, fever itself is the virus in the child, and the child itself is resisting the virus, which can't solve the problem at one time. The temperature will rise again within 4-6 hours, and you can continue the previous second step.
After 4.4-6 times, the child's body temperature is under control.
If you have a fever above 39.5 degrees Celsius, you must go to the hospital. It won't damage your brain for 4-8 hours, but the longer it takes, the worse it will be for your child. At this time, you can wipe your child's palms and soles with alcohol, but you can't wipe more. This method can quickly cool down. If there is no alcohol, you can directly wipe your child's body with tap water, and then go to the hospital immediately.
How is the child's fever persistent? 2 what should I do if my child continues to have a fever?
First of all, diseases that can cause fever
1. Cold: Common cold and influenza are the most common diseases of infants. The symptoms of a cold are different, such as fever, loss of appetite, gastrointestinal discomfort, diarrhea, ear, nose and throat.
2, ear, nose and throat inflammation: ear, nose and throat problems generally have inflammation, so there will be redness, this is a viral infection, common symptoms are fever, cough, runny nose, sore throat (babies generally do not want to eat).
3, children's acute rash (rose rash): typical. The symptom is an inexplicable high fever (above 39℃), which lasts for about 3-4 days, and then a rash (the fever is gone at this time). The rash usually disappears slowly, leaving no scars and no other complications. Parents don't have to worry.
4. Vaccination: Many babies have slight fever due to vaccination, but usually they will have more obvious fever after being vaccinated with diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus. If you are unwell or have a cold, it is not suitable to take your baby to get vaccinated to avoid confusing symptoms. 72 hours is the observation period of fever caused by vaccination. If it is more than 72 hours, it is not a fever caused by the vaccine. Parents should make another judgment.
Fever is a symptom, mostly caused by infection, usually caused by viral infection. Febrile drugs are only aimed at high fever, which can temporarily cool the body and is a method to treat exterior syndrome. The purpose of taking antipyretics is to avoid febrile convulsion and reduce the high metabolic state of the body caused by high fever. Therefore, if antipyretics are used at high fever (above 38.5℃), the body temperature will rise again after a few hours. It's what moms often say, why does my baby have a fever after taking antipyretics for a few hours, and why does it recur? Virus infections are mostly self-limiting diseases, and fever usually lasts for 3-5 days.
Second, what should I do if my baby has a fever?
1. Keep the air circulation in the home: If there is air conditioning in the home, keep the room temperature at 25-27℃. You can put the baby in a cold room, or blow it around with an electric fan, so that the body temperature will drop slowly and the baby will feel more comfortable. However, if your limbs are cold and shivering, it means you need to keep warm. For the comfort of children, you can soak your hands and feet with warm water. Generally, the temperature of children with chills may continue to rise.
2. Take off too many clothes: If the baby's limbs, hands and feet are hot and sweating all over, it means that the heat needs to be distributed, so you can wear less clothes.
3, warm water bath: untie the baby's clothes, wipe the whole body with warm water (30~37℃) towel, so that the baby's skin blood vessels will expand, the gas in the body will disperse, and when the water vapor evaporates from the body surface, it will also absorb the heat in the body.
4, you can use antipyretic stickers: when the water in the colloidal substance of antipyretic stickers evaporates, it can take away the heat without excessive cooling. (The effect is not obvious, just use it if you want. It is not recommended to use an ice pillow, because the baby is not easy to rotate, and the ice pillow is easy to cause local supercooling or hypothermia.
5, drink plenty of water/milk: give your baby plenty of water/milk, diuresis and detoxification to prevent dehydration. Water has the function of regulating temperature, which can lower the body temperature and replenish the water lost in the baby. Milk (80~90% is water. )
6. Use antipyretics: When the baby's central temperature (anal temperature or ear temperature) exceeds 38.5℃, you can use antipyretic water or suppository moderately. Strictly follow the instructions, check the dosage, and don't overdo it. Drink plenty of water after taking antipyretics, so that antipyretics can play a better role. Children with severe vomiting can use antipyretic suppository.
7. Send the baby to the hospital for treatment in time: If the baby's temperature exceeds 38.5 degrees within 3 months, you must take the child to the hospital for examination to eliminate urinary tract infection; Sepsis; Meningitis and other serious infections, because the baby's immunity is weak within 3 months, the ability to control infection is limited.
8. Observe the changes of fever and other related manifestations. Such as cough, diarrhea, headache, convulsion, sore throat, earache, rash, repeated vomiting, conjunctival congestion, pallor, listlessness and other accompanying symptoms. Before seeing a doctor, parents should sort out their children's symptoms such as fever process, drug use and reaction to drugs, which is conducive to the diagnosis of diseases. If you have a fever for at least 24 hours, you can get a more valuable diagnosis by taking your child to see a doctor. Even if the blood test, it is 24 hours after the high fever.