What if the child has a fever in the middle of the night? Correct nursing care of dealing with fever

The night when the child has a fever is the most difficult for many parents. Uneasy thoughts are always one after another. While holding the baby, my mother took her temperature from time to time, wondering whether to send her to the hospital or take medicine. It passed at midnight. The potential of motherhood seems to come from sleepless nights.

But staying up late is not what we have to do. In other words, the child's condition will not change much because the mother stays up late. Today I'm going to talk about night care for children with fever. What can and can't a mother do?

The general principle is that as long as the child's sleep is relatively stable and in good condition, there is no need to do any treatment, intervention or disturb sleep. If you have a fever, such as nonsense, sudden convulsion or short-term trembling (it is normal to smoke occasionally when you have a high fever), you can try to suck the rash on Dazhui and the back neck with your mouth, or smear it with any one of wind oil and cool oil. This therapy can be used for the condition caused by fever of any cause, and it can alleviate this situation to some extent. If this has not been alleviated, then other intervention measures should be given, such as taking symptomatic drugs or going to the hospital.

If nothing happens except a fever, there is nothing to do. Calm parents can feel the child's state at this time and judge whether the child is serious and needs help.

For parents who have lost their judgment, the most important thing at this time is not to help their children, but to calm their emotions and calm themselves down first. You can consider downloading some Buddhist music on your mobile phone and playing it quietly for yourself and your children. Although the child is asleep, it will also have a soothing effect. On the premise of not disturbing the child, you can hold the child's hand or make other physical contact by yourself, which is also difficult, and your fear will be comforted.

Some problems that parents are most worried about when they have a fever.

0 1. Can a fever burn your brain?

Although fever will make children uncomfortable, there is no evidence that fever will cause harm to children and will not burn their brains, except for rare status epilepticus and heatstroke.

On the contrary, the increase of body temperature can reduce the replication and reproduction of microorganisms in children, and also improve the immune response of human body, which is conducive to the elimination of pathogenic microorganisms. Fever is a manifestation of the immune system, and the child's immune system is constantly improving in the process of contact with the virus. Therefore, in the process of children's growth, fever is inevitable, and it is often conducive to the recovery of the disease.

02. Can a fever burn into pneumonia?

The symptoms of pneumonia are: persistent high fever, severe cough and expectoration, shortness of breath, difficulty and thick and sticky sputum. If the fever persists for a few days, parents should have an idea in their hearts whether the child meets the characteristics of pneumonia mentioned above. In fact, many times, children's pneumonia may be misjudged.

The judgment of pneumonia in regular hospitals depends first on whether the child is panting; Then listen to the lungs with a stethoscope to see if there is a wet rale; Combined with lung X-ray examination, it is a more reliable definition method. However, it is impossible to confirm that the child has pneumonia simply by abnormal blood picture. If misdiagnosed as pneumonia, a series of wrong treatments will do great harm to children's health.

03. Can a fever cause convulsions?

Convulsion is because the body needs to consume body fluids when it has a fever. If the ability to produce body fluids is insufficient, some bodies will lack body fluids when they have a fever. At this time, the instinctive reaction of the human body is to start shaking and twitching, so that body fluids can be distributed quickly and evenly. Imagine a wet towel. If you shake the towel, it will help to distribute the water evenly. Of course, convulsive response is not only the need of body fluid transmission, so from the perspective of instinctive response, convulsions are not all harmful. If it is not epilepsy, a brief convulsion is harmless, and the child's body is dealing with the problem itself. If it is not handled properly, it will lead to injury. Of course, there is also a question of the degree to which convulsions are harmless. There is no standard for this. If you are worried, it is better to see a doctor than to deal with it casually.

About "Do you want to do it?"

0 1. Do you want to take your temperature regularly?

Whether the child has a fever is not directly related to the temperature. It is not recommended to disturb children. In fact, it is very accurate to measure the temperature by touching the child's forehead with his lips. You can know the temperature in your heart without a thermometer. Taking temperature regularly will increase the pressure on yourself and your family.

I once met a mother who said that the child had a fever and took his temperature. One thermometer measured 44 degrees and the other thermometer measured 45 degrees, which is outrageous. After a while, I replied that it was wrong. I thought 0. 1 was 1, but it was actually 40.4 degrees. Then we can feel that the mother is not calm and confused. Rather than taking care of the children, she should stabilize herself first.

02. What should I do if the temperature keeps rising and my feet start to get cold?

In this case, the feet can be properly kept warm, and the feet can be covered with hot water bottles (the kind used in winter). Because the foot is a part of the blood circulation of the human body, cold feet will affect the blood circulation of the whole body, leading to continuous fever in the upper body, which is easy to cause convulsions.

03. Should I wake up to take medicine or drink water?

It is not recommended to disturb children for any reason unless they wake up by themselves.

04. Do you want to drink more water?

When you have a fever, you can appropriately increase the amount of water you drink, especially when you sweat, but don't irrigate or force you to drink water. If you sweat a lot, you can also increase it when you sleep at night, but don't wake up when you are asleep, and then drink when you wake up. Just drink warm water. If you have a fever and sweat, it is better to drink more light sugar and salt water.

05. Do you want to stay up with the children?

Generally speaking, there is no need to work so hard. You should sleep as long as the children are around. Normal children don't burn themselves without calling for help. If a child needs help, he will cry. In fact, if you sleep next to the child, it is impossible to sleep very dead, and the child will wake up if something happens.

I just want to give some treatment, but I don't understand syndrome differentiation. what can I do?

You can try to plug your navel with Huoxiang Zhengqi water. Buy Huoxiang Zhengqi water, the kind used by adults. Take a ball of cotton (paper towels can also be shredded), fill it with fragrant water, and plug it with navel tape to fix it. It changes about every eight hours.

07. Do you want to give the child a massage to reduce the fever?

The child has accumulated food and fever, and has received many feedbacks that massage for children can relieve the six fu organs, but clear water can not reduce the fever.

Children's massage, like taking Chinese medicine, needs to do TCM syndrome differentiation first, and it is not a fever that can calm the liver and clear the lung; It is impossible to give a massage plan according to the symptoms of fever or the degree of fever.

If it is in the book, just press this massage, and that's right.

The baby has a fever. I don't think he has any other discomfort, just shortness of breath. What should I do?

When you have a fever, your heart beats faster, and at the same time, your body needs to consume more oxygen, so your breathing will accelerate, which is normal. Mainly pay attention to the child's situation and see if the child can bear it. If there is no discomfort and the spirit is good, you can observe it. Otherwise, if you feel short of breath or even purple lips, you will have to intervene. It is recommended to find a doctor in the hospital as soon as possible.

Do you want to cool the physics?

First of all, physical cooling is not necessarily symptomatic treatment. For example, if you have a cold and a fever, it turns out that you have a fever because you want to sweat. As a result, when you cool down, the temperature can't go up, and you can't get rid of the fever without sweating.

According to my mother's feedback, wiping with warm water for accumulated food and fever has no cooling effect. If you sweat, or sweat, you can only temporarily cool down.

But relatively speaking, warm water rubbing is an acceptable nursing measure, which only volatilizes heat and does not introduce new cold evil. If you want to use it, warm water should be a little warmer, not too cold, or you will catch a cold easily. You can wipe the back neck, armpits, palms, thighs and soles.