When a child has a fever, the first thing to look at is the possible cause of the fever, whether he has caught a cold recently, whether he has a cold, and whether he has been vaccinated. If you have a cold, accompanied by symptoms such as stuffy nose and cough, then it may really be because you have a cold.
Sometimes children have a fever after vaccination, which may be due to adverse reactions caused by vaccination. This kind of fever is generally low in temperature, and most of it will not exceed 38.5 degrees. If the baby is not accompanied by obvious discomfort, then you can also drink more water and observe more.
If it is really a cold, the child's symptoms are mild, his spirit is good, and the fever temperature does not exceed 38.5 degrees, then you can also use physical fever to let the child wear loose and breathable clothes and take a comfortable warm bath. Have a good rest, drink plenty of water, or put up a fever sticker to make your child feel better.
If the temperature has exceeded 38.5 degrees, accompanied by obvious cough, excessive phlegm and even crying, you can use drugs such as Merrill Lynch and Tylenol to reduce the fever, but you should pay attention to the correct dosage. Some cold medicines contain acetaminophen or ibuprofen, so be careful not to take them repeatedly.
That's true, but parents must be worried if their children are uncomfortable. When other children come to see me with a fever, I will comfort my parents not to be too nervous, but I am equally worried about my own child with a fever. Sometimes children like to have a fever in the middle of the night, and I always have some antipyretics at home.
Normal body temperature does not exceed 37.3℃. Generally speaking, if the fever does not exceed 38.5℃, you can temporarily not take antipyretics, and you can cool down by physical methods such as rubbing armpits, limbs and forehead wipes with warm water. If the body temperature exceeds 38.5℃, you can take antipyretics orally.
Safer and more widely used oral antipyretics include ibuprofen and acetaminophen, and there are many in the market, as well as powders, tablets, suspensions, suppositories and other dosage forms. For younger children, you can choose powders and suspensions, and for older children, you can choose tablets. Parents can choose a suitable dosage form according to their children's situation and take it according to the instructions.
1. First of all, we should know whether the child has silkworm disease. Generally, the hospital will have a routine examination at birth. Special attention should be paid to the use of antipyretics for silkworm bean disease, and antipyretics containing acetaminophen should not be selected, otherwise it may lead to hemolysis.
2. The interval between taking antipyretic drugs should be 4-6 hours. Too much and too short interval will cause certain harm to the body.
3. Avoid the combination of antipyretics with different trade names: There are many antipyretics with different trade names and many compound preparations on the market. Parents should pay attention to the composition of drugs when choosing. Do not combine the two drugs with antipyretic ingredients such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen, which may easily lead to drug overdose.
If the body temperature drops after taking antipyretics, parents should pay attention to changing clothes for their children in time.
5. Drug treatment is only symptomatic treatment, and family members need to take their children to the hospital in time to clarify the cause of fever.
Finally, teach you how to judge your child's temperature trend. Touch the child's limbs when he has a fever. If your hands and feet are cold, your body temperature may rise. If the limbs are warm, the body temperature will generally not rise too much.
Fever is a symptom, not a disease, so finding out the cause of fever is the primary purpose. Three-year-old children have a fever, mainly due to the following reasons: 1. Virus or bacterial infection, virus infection is more common in colds or flu, mainly caused by viruses, which is a self-limited disease and will be cured in about a week; Pharyngolaryngitis, tonsillitis, bronchitis and other bacterial infections. 2. Disharmony between spleen and stomach, indigestion, food accumulation and fever. This is mainly due to spleen deficiency and weak gastric motility. Eating too full or indigestible food can easily lead to food accumulation, and children will have a fever, accompanied by symptoms such as cough. 3. Eruptive diseases.
To deal with the baby's fever, you should do the following things:
1. To measure the baby's armpit temperature, it is best to use a mercury thermometer. Generally speaking, infrared thermometers are inaccurate. In addition, when measuring the underarm temperature, be sure to throw mercury at the bottom and measure it for another ten minutes, so that the measured body temperature is accurate.
2. If the temperature of the baby's armpit is lower than 38.5℃, it means that he is in good spirits, can eat without delaying playing, and is just a simple cold or a fever caused by getting angry. Then, mom doesn't have to worry too much, physically cool down and drink more warm water, and pay attention to observation.
3. If the temperature of the baby's armpit is above 38.5℃~ 39℃, antipyretics can be used moderately to reduce the discomfort of the child and prevent the child from having febrile convulsions. Tylenol and ibuprofen are commonly used in pediatrics, as well as compound zinc cloth granules and Xiaoer Chaigui antipyretic granules. But if there is a high temperature above 40. 1℃, you have to seek medical attention urgently. From the beginning of taking medicine to the beginning of the drug effect, what parents need to do is to repeatedly cool the baby physically.
4. If the fever persists and the drug treatment is ineffective, you can consider the factors of bacterial infection and actively seek medical treatment for antibiotic treatment.
5. Nursing precautions: It is not recommended to use more than two antipyretics at the same time; Try to give digestible food, such as porridge; Pay attention to the supplement of water and electrolyte to avoid yellow urine; Take more rest and avoid excessive activity.
After having children at home, I always prepare some basic commonly used medicines and two thermometers for emergencies. I always take my temperature first when I find my child has a fever. If it is below 38 degrees, I am in a good mental state and have no discomfort for the time being. I usually ask people to drink more boiled water, put antipyretic stickers on their foreheads and feed some common cold medicine. If the temperature keeps rising, I'll take it to the hospital for blood test.
The cause of fever is usually a cold or sore throat. If you have a fever caused by a cold, you need to take blood tests to determine whether it is a viral infection or a bacterial infection, which is effective for medication. My son's fever is usually an inflammation of the throat. Fever has a process, that is, it will recur for several days. If he takes medicine, the fever will go down and burn again after a while, which proves that the medicine is effective and can be observed and treated slowly. Drink plenty of boiled water when you have a fever, and use the temperature to cool down, that is, use warm water and towels, wring them out and wipe the whole body.
Keep the indoor air fresh when the child has a fever. When the fever goes down, watching the child sometimes makes his hands tremble but his hands are cold. Don't cover him with a thick quilt, sweating like a pig. If the child is conscious, it means that another round of high fever is coming. I didn't know it before. I didn't know it until I asked the doctor. I should feed more boiled water at this time. Sweating will soon reduce the fever. If the conventional cold medicine doesn't work, you should prescribe a special antipyretic medicine prescribed by the doctor. Medication depends on the instructions. Usually once every 6 hours. If the fever can't be reduced after feeding, you should go to the hospital for treatment.
There are many reasons for children's fever, and it is safest to go to the hospital for examination because children's language skills are limited. Parents should be more careful. High fever cannot be ignored.
1. Bathe children with 35% ~ 45% alcohol or warm water. Bathing places are mainly places where large blood vessels are distributed, such as forehead, neck, armpit, groin and thigh root, which is convenient for cooling down.
2, in the absence of cold air blowing directly, take off too many clothes, or loosen clothes, which is conducive to heat dissipation.
3. Children should take some safe and effective antipyretics when their fever exceeds 38.5℃, which has the function of rapid antipyretic and analgesic. Parents should not give their children adult drugs casually, so as not to cause unnecessary harm to their children.
4. Let the children have a full rest, drink more boiled water, eat some digestible food and cooperate with drug treatment. If there is persistent temperature rise and poor diet, you should seek medical advice and use intravenous infusion.
First, the correct use of children's antipyretics:
1. If the temperature reaches 38.5, you should take medicine even if you don't feel sick.
2. The child's mental state is not good, and symptoms such as discomfort and crying appear, even if the body temperature does not reach 38.5, it can be taken orally.
3. The medication time should be 4 hours apart, no more than 4 times a day. If you take medicine at home for 3 days and your body temperature rises, you need to see a doctor to find out the reason.
Second, matters needing attention:
1. Oral adult medicine, many adults do not pay attention to it. After the child has a fever, take an adult medicine at will and eat half of it. This is wrong, because the safety range of children's medication is different from that of adults, which will make children overdose. Children's dosage form should be the first choice. If adult medicine must be taken, the dosage should be calculated according to the drug instructions. If a drug does not have a dose for children, it means that this drug has not been evaluated for children's safety, so we don't know how effective it is for children after taking it, so it is not recommended to use it.
2. When taking medicine, cold medicine is usually taken three times a day, so many people will take medicine after three meals. This method is not very good. Take the medicine three times a day, once every eight hours on average, so that the effective concentration of the medicine in the body can achieve the therapeutic effect. Take it orally once before going to bed, once in the morning, and try to take it every 8 hours.
3. Correct drug selection, everyone has different symptoms after catching a cold, so there is often no specific drug treatment, most of which are caused by viruses, with great variability, and few drugs can be eradicated. Therefore, it is generally for the symptoms of its performance, choose the symptomatic drug treatment. If you have fever, general pain and discomfort, you can choose antipyretic and analgesic drugs. Acetaminophen and ibuprofen are mainly used to cool down, and diclofenac is mainly used to relieve body pain. In addition, if there are symptoms such as runny nose, stuffy nose and cough, you need to choose the corresponding drugs according to your discomfort.
Fever is the first symptom of many diseases. It is recommended to find a professional doctor, make a clear diagnosis and use drugs correctly.
Many children have a cold and fever. Generally, their body temperature is lower than 38 or 5 degrees. You can do physical cooling and drink more water. See a doctor if it exceeds 38 or 5 degrees. The doctor will check and treat you to see if there are any complications such as pneumonia and pharyngitis in children. There are many kinds of antipyretics and cold medicines for children now. Children are not allowed to use adult drugs.
Drugs have a variety of symptomatic treatment effects, but they also have side effects. If they are used correctly, diseases will be cured.
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Infants and young children don't need to go to the hospital right away, because there are many reasons for fever, and sometimes they are not necessarily sick, especially those below 38.5 degrees don't need to rush to the hospital.
Fever caused by a cold can be solved in a relatively simple way at home: boil an egg, remove the yolk, put a silverware (ring or bracelet) on the yolk, wrap the protein with a cloth, hold the cloth, and apply it to the child's back near the lungs (the principle of my analysis is that protein and silverware attract viruses, because it is easy to catch a cold if you put two palms on the back of a cold patient for a short time), and then throw away the protein after applying it. Don't tell others about this law in case the defendant practices medicine illegally.
Sometimes, a considerable part of a child's fever is caused by not replenishing water in time after sweating. For the temperature rise caused by this water shortage, it is necessary to replenish water first. Note that babies must not supplement pure water. Adults can't see the harm of drinking pure water temporarily, but it is unfavorable to the growth of infants and young children. After adding water, the body temperature has not changed, so consider whether to go to the hospital.
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Many cold medicines contain antipyretic ingredients, so it is recommended to check the instructions first.
Recently, there is a high incidence of influenza. Many flu symptoms are very similar to the common cold! Parents are advised to confirm whether the child is a common cold or flu according to the symptoms.
Influenza needs to be treated as soon as possible because it may cause various complications such as pneumonia, bronchitis, encephalitis and acute myocarditis.
If mothers suspect that their children have the flu, they also suggest going to the hospital as soon as possible.
The following content is only for the common cold!
Cold is a self-limiting disease, which will recover automatically in about 7 days. Drug treatment can't cure colds, but can only relieve symptoms such as stuffy nose and headache.
It is not recommended that children under 6 years old use compound cold medicine as a treatment to relieve cold symptoms.
Many studies have proved that children's cold medicine, cough medicine and other drugs have no effect on children under 6 years old, and may have serious side effects.
A cold is what we call a "respiratory infection".
Children's common respiratory infections are caused by viruses, and there is no treatment for most viruses complicated with respiratory infections. Virus infection itself is self-limiting. The principle of treatment is symptomatic treatment, observation and waiting for the recovery of the disease.
Fever is a manifestation of human immune system. Because the child's immune system is not perfect, fever is a common phenomenon in the child's development. In most cases, fever is harmless, so don't immediately consider giving your child a fever. Some diseases that cause fever, such as severe bacterial infection, need to be treated according to the cause, but unless the child has obvious discomfort, it is not necessary to reduce the fever.
Don't give children antipyretics indiscriminately. When the temperature exceeds 39 degrees or the child is uncomfortable, ibuprofen or acetaminophen, which is relatively safe for the child, can be used to cool the child. Febrile drugs can only improve children's comfort, but can't shorten the progress of the disease.
Therefore, everything must be based on the comfort of children. The child's mental state is more meaningful than the numbers on the thermometer. If you feel that something is wrong and have no idea, go to the hospital.
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Three-year-old children, the temperature rises, if the temperature is lower than 38℃, you can physically cool down; If the body temperature is higher than 38.5℃, it is recommended to take oral medicine combined with physical cooling therapy, such as oral cephalosporin and Chinese medicine decoction, but you must go to a regular hospital and find a professional doctor for treatment. Because there are many reasons for fever, it is generally a cold caused by indigestion and exogenous cold.