My principle is that the temperature is below 38.5 degrees, don't take antipyretics, take antipyretic injections and give the baby plenty of water. Pay attention to whether the ambient temperature is too high. In hot summer, the temperature is very high, and the baby's ability to regulate body temperature is poor. When the mother holds the baby, the hot air is not easy to dissipate, which makes the body temperature rise. However, this kind of fever generally does not last long. Put it in a cool place, fan it a little, give the child some cold juice, or give the child a hot bath. After a few hours, the body temperature will drop to normal. If the indoor temperature is too high in winter and the baby is wrapped too much, it will also raise the baby's body temperature.
If the fever is above 38.5 degrees, please call a doctor immediately to confirm whether it is a virus infection or a bacterial infection. For viral infections, antiviral drugs (such as ribavirin) are used, and for bacterial infections, antibiotics (such as cephalosporins) are used. Don't rush to reduce the fever. A fever is just a symptom. Find out why.
Pay attention to whether there is bacterial or viral infection.
The main symptoms and causes are as follows:
Fever and runny nose-cold (cold syndrome)
Sore throat-pharyngitis, tonsillitis
Continuous fever of about 39℃, white bloodshot eyes and watery eyes-swimming pool fever.
When you have a high fever in a hot place, you are exhausted-heatstroke (heatstroke)
Parotid swelling-parotitis
Running ear and emotional instability-otitis media
Cough, breathlessness, dyspnea-pneumonia
Red gums and excessive saliva-stomatitis
Vomiting, cramp, protrusion of anterior fontanel-meningitis
Vomiting, spasm, unconsciousness-pneumonia, acute encephalopathy
Frequent urination, hematuria-urinary tract infection
At the same time of fever, spasms-heat spasms
My child had a fever once. Yes, he took antipyretics and soon went down. After a few hours, it burned again, and so on. I was taken to the hospital and had a blood test. This is a fever caused by a virus infection. One of the characteristics of viral infection is repeated fever. The doctor did not prescribe antipyretic needles and infusion bottles, but only three antiviral needles. After playing for three days, he didn't grow taller.
Does the baby have a fever?
Does the baby have a fever? Roughly speaking, when the temperature measured by the ear thermometer is higher than 37.5 degrees Celsius, it means that the baby is unwell. At this time, parents must pay attention to whether the baby has any symptoms; If the temperature reaches above 38 degrees, the baby really has a fever. If the baby's fever is only about 38 degrees, but his mental state is still very good, there is no need to take the baby to see a doctor immediately. You can take care of him at home first You don't need to give him antipyretics. You only need to provide liquid food and water, and judge the cause of fever according to the baby's symptoms. If it is not clear, you can call the relevant units. If the baby complains to his parents that he is not feeling well, or his body temperature is higher than 39 degrees, you can consider giving him antipyretics. But after taking antipyretics, whether it is effective or not, you should see a doctor for treatment. Otherwise, if the fever is about 38 degrees, it is recommended not to take antipyretic measures to let the baby recover naturally, but to enhance the baby's resistance.
The child has a fever, so don't hurry to cool down.
First of all, don't rush to reduce the fever, find out the cause of the child's fever. Fever is not a disease, it sounds like a wake-up call to your body, reminding you that there is an abnormal situation inside your body. At the same time, fever is also a defensive measure for our body to deal with pathogenic microorganisms. To some extent, a proper fever is conducive to enhancing the body's resistance and eliminating pathogens. So if the child doesn't have a high fever, don't rush to reduce the fever immediately, otherwise it will hide the real cause.
There are many reasons why children have a fever. Upper respiratory tract infection, gastroenteritis, tonsillitis, pneumonia and all infectious diseases may have fever symptoms. In addition, babies under one year old may have a fever due to urinary tract infection, gastrointestinal diseases and hand, foot and mouth disease. Many cases must be judged by a doctor to know the real cause of fever.
The baby has a fever, so don't mix the medicine.
Whether to give children antipyretic drugs needs to weigh the pros and cons. Drugs can certainly improve the child's condition and make the baby comfortable; But it may also bring some side effects. The World Health Organization advises babies not to use any antipyretic drugs within 2 months. In general, drug antipyretic therapy is only applied to children with high fever. The method and dosage of taking must be in accordance with the doctor's requirements. We suggest that children should be given antipyretics when their body temperature exceeds 38.5 degrees Celsius. If your child has a history of febrile convulsions in the past, you may wish to give your child an antipyretic at 38 degrees Celsius.
Three stages of perspective heat
Generally, infant fever is in the following order, but not every situation will happen. Sometimes, babies don't experience chills, but they have a fever directly. However, most babies feel cold when they have a fever, and they will burn to about 39 degrees and feel uncomfortable. Of course, sometimes you don't sweat when you have a fever. Therefore, parents can take the three-stage process as a reference, but they can't summarize the fever process of each baby!
1. Cold
Causes and symptoms
When a baby is infected, the thermoregulatory center will raise itself to protect itself. But before the body temperature comes up, the body will have a fever mechanism and take the initiative to bring the tropics to the center of the body. At this time, the circulation of the limbs will become worse, resulting in cold hands and feet. Chilling is the early stage of fever. When the temperature is measured, it may be less than 38 degrees, but the baby will feel cold all over and even have chills.
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Add clothes to the baby, let him drink more warm water, help him raise his temperature and relieve his pain. When the baby is cold, don't rush to help him cool down, which will make him feel worse.
2. fever
Causes and symptoms
When a baby has a fever, his body temperature will rise. At this time, the skin feels very hot, indicating that the baby is already having a fever. Many parents put on more clothes in order to make their baby sweat quickly, but it is easy to make their baby's body temperature higher and their baby's body will be more uncomfortable!
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At this time, parents should keep indoor ventilation, let the baby inhale warm water and take off extra clothes for the baby.
sweat
Causes and symptoms
When the baby has a fever due to infection, the body temperature will automatically rise to protect the human body. When the infection is stable, the human body does not need to send antibodies and white blood cells to fight bacteria. At this time, in order to lower the body temperature, the heat will be taken away, so perspiration will occur to lower the body temperature.
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The baby is sweating, indicating that the body is dissipating heat. Parents should help the baby to wipe the sweat, so as not to clog the pores and prevent the baby from cooling down.
The Best Method of Physical Cooling
In addition to drugs to reduce fever, some physical methods can also help children with fever to cool down. Commonly used physical cooling methods at home generally include alcohol bath, ice pillow cooling or warm water bath. So, which method is best for your baby?
Rubbing with alcohol is a common way to reduce fever in the past, and it is not recommended for babies now. Wiping the baby's body with alcohol will make the baby's skin relax and contract quickly, which is very irritating to the baby and may also cause alcoholism.
Many parents often use ice pillows or ice to compress their foreheads to reduce fever. However, children within six months should not use this method, because the baby is easily affected by the external temperature, and the use of ice pillows will cause the temperature to drop too fast, which makes it difficult for the baby to adapt. In addition, when the baby has a fever, the whole body temperature rises, and local ice compress can only play a role in local cooling, so it is better to wipe the baby's whole body with warm water.
Warm water bath is to wipe the child's limbs, chest and back with a warm towel of about 37℃. Make the skin's high temperature (about 39℃) gradually lower, and make the baby feel more comfortable. At this time, you can also wipe your forehead and face with a cool towel (about 25℃). It should be noted that during these cooling treatments, if the child has so-called cold reactions such as cold hands and feet, trembling whole body and purple lips, he should stop taking the medicine immediately. Why? When pathogens invade the human body, the body temperature will rise to a corresponding temperature, which is the set temperature. Lowering the set temperature is the key to reduce the fever for children. Because if the set temperature is not changed, the body will still generate heat to reach the target body temperature while radiating heat. At this time, bathing the child with cold water in an attempt to reduce the fever through heat dissipation is not only ineffective, but also makes the child tremble and feel cold, which is very painful. Therefore, we must first use antipyretics to lower the set temperature, and then assist physical heat dissipation, so that the body temperature will really drop.
Are you wearing more or less?
After the baby has a fever, there is often a question that makes parents hesitate: Should they wear more clothes to avoid shivering when they have a fever, or take off their clothes to help dissipate heat? In fact, adding and subtracting clothes should match the process of fever. When the set temperature rises and the body temperature begins to rise, the child will feel cold. At this time, long-sleeved and breathable thin shirts should be added, and antipyretics can be given. After taking the medicine for half an hour, the efficacy began to play, the set temperature decreased, the body began to get hot, and the child would sweat and feel hot. At this time, clothes should be reduced, or warm water bath should be used to help reduce fever.
Children should not eat more eggs when they have a fever.
After a child has a fever, he usually has a poor appetite. At this time, we should give priority to liquid, nutritious, light and digestible diets, such as milk, lotus root starch and vegetable soup with little oil. When the body temperature drops and the appetite improves, it can be changed to semi-liquid, such as minced meat porridge, noodles and soft rice with some digestible dishes. In addition, it is necessary to drink more warm water and increase the water content of tissues in the body, which has a stabilizing effect on body temperature and can avoid the rapid rise of body temperature again.
When children have a fever, many parents think that they should be supplemented with nutrition, so they give their children a lot of eggs rich in protein. In fact, this will not only reduce the body temperature, but also increase the body heat, which will promote the baby's body temperature to rise, which is not conducive to the child's early recovery.
Several simple methods to reduce fever
(1) Most of the baby's fever is caused by a cold. If the baby's 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 adding two or three inches of scallions to the water is more conducive to the baby's sweating.
(2) If the baby has a fever, sore throat, yellow tongue coating, yellow urine and heavy smell, it means that the child's internal heat is heavier. Don't drink ginger syrup at this time, drink plenty of warm water, or add a little salt to the water.