Why do children have a fever?
Pediatric fever is a very common symptom. Normal children's axillary body temperature is 36 ° C ~ 37 ° C, such as more than 37.4 ° C can be considered fever. In most cases, fever is a protective response of the body against invading pathogens, a process in which the body is mobilizing its immune system to fight infection. Abnormal increases in body temperature are not necessarily proportional to the severity of the disease, but excessive fever or long-term fever can affect various regulatory functions of the body, thereby affecting the health of children.
Why is it not recommended to use medication to reduce fever
Generally speaking, children with fevers below 38.5 ° C and a good mental state do not need to take medicine (except for children within 3 months), for the following 3 reasons.
1. The body temperature of children is higher than that of adults, and there will be obvious discomfort when the adult body temperature is 38.5 ° C, but there is almost no abnormality in children.
2. Although antipyretic drugs can effectively control fever and reduce body temperature, they cannot fundamentally solve the causes of fever. And in the absence of a solution to the cause, the body temperature will still rise in the past.
3. Feeding medicine as soon as the child has a fever will cause the anti-virus cells in the child's body to "lack exercise", and they will be helpless when they encounter a powerful virus.
Therefore, physical cooling has become the preferred method for parents, and many parents have many questions about physical cooling, such as: how should physical cooling work best? Should I wipe myself off with warm water or with alcohol? Which parts of the rub work best? Below we have specifically consulted Dr. Jie Niu to answer these questions for us.
The right way to physically cool your baby down
When the child has a fever, if the fever is not high to a certain extent, generally we do not use antipyretic drugs, the first choice is physical cooling.
There are many ways to physically cool down, and I'm here to share with you 3 commonly used methods.
First, apply ice with ice packs and stickers
Ice packs and ice patches can reduce local temperatures when used, especially for some babies with a history of high fever convulsions, or children with this risk.
Attaching ice packs and ice stickers to the forehead can reduce the local temperature, but ice stickers generally feel uncomfortable when children use them, so this method is less suitable.
The second is the alcohol bath
We choose 35% alcohol, which is equivalent to our usual 75% alcohol to dilute it a little more than double.
When rubbing the child, it can reduce the local temperature by the volatilization of alcohol, but it can be done for older children, and young children can wipe the bath with warm water because the possibility of the skin absorbing alcohol exists.
Third, rub the bath with warm water
Warm water bath is a very effective method of physical cooling, generally we choose warm water 2 to 3 degrees lower than the body temperature. The parts of the body that are selected are the neck, armpits and thigh roots, which we call the large blood vessels, the parts through which the aorta passes, and these parts are accelerated when the child's body temperature rises, so the effect of wiping on these parts will be better.
Wipe in these places with a towel covered with water, it is best to keep it wet, so that as the child's blood circulation accelerates, it takes away the heat, and the moisture is dry, and the effect is very good.
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