Children appear fever symptoms, parents learn to deal with this, not only the effect is good and safe
Every baby is a mother’s heart, which day found that the baby is sick, can be anxious bad mother.
One mother shared what happened to her when she was at work that day and received a call from her mother-in-law saying that her daughter suddenly had a fever with a temperature of 38.9 degrees Celsius. After hearing the news, she hurriedly asked for leave to go home. When she came back, she found her daughter crying badly, her face and neck were red, and rushed to the hospital.
The doctor measured the temperature, did a routine blood examination, and prescribed some antipyretic medicine, let home to observe the situation, if the temperature has a rising trend or other adverse symptoms, to be sent to the hospital in time.
The couple stayed awake all night, taking their temperature regularly and monitoring their health. It is said that raising children with children, must have a strong heart, otherwise do not know which day to a sudden situation, they can “scare” out of heart disease.
After listening to my friend’s experience, I understand the anxiety of a new mother when she sees her baby sick. Today, let’s talk about the topic of baby fever.
Before discussing how to bring down a baby’s fever, mothers need to understand why their baby has a fever.
Fever is actually not a bad thing, because the baby’s body is fighting inflammation and certain viruses, need high temperature to destroy them, when the body will appear fever phenomenon. When the baby has a fever, the first thing to do is to regularly measure and record the baby’s temperature, and then observe whether the baby has other adverse reactions.
How to measure your baby’s temperature correctly?
The thermometer used to measure body temperature must not be a mercury thermometer. Because the mercury in the mercury thermometer is accidentally exposed, it is easy to contact the baby’s skin or be ingested. Because the outside is made of glass, if the baby does not move with the body when measuring the temperature, it is easy to hurt the skin after breaking.
It is recommended to use an electronic thermometer. Firstly, the temperature is more accurate, and secondly, it is suitable for measuring the temperature of multiple parts of the baby’s body, such as mouth temperature, armpit temperature, and rectal temperature.
How can parents handle fever in children?
The baby’s temperature is measured below 38.5 degrees, and the baby can eat normally without using antipyretic drugs. At this time, parents need to timely supplement water to the baby, as much as possible to feed breast milk or formula, and encourage the baby to drink a small amount of water many times, so as to help the baby’s body metabolism, more sweat and urine, to achieve the purpose of cooling.
On the other hand, if it is in summer, you can open the air conditioning, the room temperature is kept at about 27 degrees, open the air conditioning should also pay attention to the ventilation of the room, winter in the indoor 23~25 degrees, to reduce clothes for the baby, help the body heat dissipation.
Pay attention! Newborns less than three months old who have fever should be sent to the hospital for diagnosis as soon as possible. If the body temperature is over 38.5 degrees, the baby’s mental state is normal, or the body temperature is not over 38.5 degrees, but there are physical symptoms, it is recommended to take antipyretic drugs orally.
The two most widely used and safe drugs for children with fever are ibuprofen (trade name Meryl) and paracetoacetaminophen (also known as Tylenol). For acetaminophen is suitable for the younger baby of more than 3 months, more than 6 months of baby can take ibuprofen. Although both are safe children’s antipyretic drugs, alternating or taking them together is not recommended.
The baby’s temperature is above 38.5 degrees, and the body condition is not good, breathing difficulties, lethargy, confusion, vomiting, diarrhea, headache and other symptoms, should be sent to the hospital for treatment in time. When seeing a doctor, mothers must remain calm, and talk to the doctor is the need to pay attention to these three points.
1. Describe the age of the baby, the temperature measured in recent times, whether the baby can eat normally, the body symptoms, urine and feces, and the mental state of the baby. 2, at home have done what measures, whether have taken some drugs, if there is a doctor before, have done what examination, prescribed what antipyretic medicine, take medicine after the effect, the best medical record to the doctor. 3, whether the baby is allergic to some drugs, whether there are some congenital diseases.
Does darling need physical cooling after fever?
At present, the most commonly used physical cooling methods are wiping the patient’s body with alcohol or warm water, applying ice packs, and sticking antipyretic stickers. The principle is to take away the heat through the evaporation of water vapor, but tell you that it is not recommended to take these methods, the baby skin delicate, alcohol will cause damage to the skin if absorbed by the skin, easy to appear coma symptoms.
Ice can make the body in a dazed child, feel repeated temperature differences, increasing the discomfort.
Again, warm water to wipe the body, when the baby allergy to antipyretic medicine can use warm water to wipe the method, but the method is not recommended to deal with fever symptoms.
The first principle of fever treatment is to reduce the discomfort of the child’s body. The method mentioned above can be used to reduce the indoor temperature, open the window for ventilation and reduce clothing.
Finally, I want to tell mothers that the baby’s fever needs a certain process, and the purpose is not to immediately drop to normal body temperature after taking the medicine. If the baby’s body temperature drops 1~1.5 degrees after taking the antipyretic medicine, it is effective.