Children can eat more fruits and vegetables during fever, especially fruits rich in vitamins and water, such as Sydney, grapes, apples, bananas, pomegranates and pitaya. Some fruits can also relieve throat discomfort, relieve sore throat, clear away heat and toxic materials, relieve cough and resolve phlegm, and promote disease recovery. Pay attention to monitoring body temperature during fever. If the body temperature exceeds 38.5℃, give oral antipyretic drugs and control the body temperature in time. If the fever is only low-grade, physical cooling can be used to reduce the fever.
High fever is one of the mechanisms to resist infection in the body. Our body can mobilize its own defense system to kill foreign germs by raising the body temperature (generally speaking, germs will die when the body temperature is above 39℃), thus shortening the onset time and enhancing the role of antibiotics. If the fever is reduced by drugs in the early stage of a cold (37-38.5℃), the bacteria in the body will temporarily be in suspended animation, and they will develop drug resistance. Once they reappear, they are usually more difficult to treat.
A fever is a warning signal, which informs you that a certain part of your body is sick; But the fever itself will not cause harm to children, so whether it is necessary to reduce the fever depends on the time and temperature of the fever. Because fever is a normal immune response, it helps white blood cells to resist bacterial toxins and has certain disease resistance; Observing the heat type of fever is helpful to diagnose the cause, but blindly reducing fever is misleading. If the temperature is not too high, there is no need to rush to reduce fever. But fever will increase metabolism and cause energy consumption; In particular, the baby's fever causes water evaporation, leading to dehydration; Moreover, infants and young children are prone to febrile convulsions, and there is no need to let a fever cause harm.
Parents should have a correct attitude and take fever as a warning. Fever is a defensive reaction caused by various diseases. Studies have shown that the human body is responsible for swallowing bacteria, and its swallowing ability is enhanced when the body temperature rises (38℃ ~ 39℃). Therefore, when a child's body temperature rises due to a cold or other infectious diseases, it is unwise to use all possible methods to immediately lower the body temperature to the normal range. Because it may reduce the resistance of the sick children themselves.
Some parents will use some folk methods to reduce fever, such as cold water or alcohol bath, which is not appropriate. When the baby has a fever, the hot skin suddenly touches cold water or alcohol, and the baby's reaction will be fierce, which may cause convulsions; And the smell of alcohol will make children sleepy, like drunk.
In addition, the traditional concept of "being cold" of the older generation has led people to mistakenly think that they must wear more clothes when they have a fever. In fact, it is just the opposite. He said that when you have a fever, the skin has the largest surface area and the best heat dissipation effect. If you can take off too many clothes, you can eliminate a lot of body heat through a relaxed and cool appearance, and your body temperature is easy to drop.