The baby has a fever, and the babies are anxious like the ants in the hot pot, there are antipyretic stickers, there are anti-fever drugs, there are physical cooling, there are observations for a few days and then sent to the hospital...
Xiaobao reminds parents here that in the face of baby fever, there are two things that are easy to do wrong, and parents must pay attention.
First, the baby has a fever and immediately takes anti-fever medicine? wrong!
Fever is a symptom rather than a disease, which is a defensive response of the body to infection and a precursor to a disease in the body. In a sense, fever is not necessarily a bad thing, because low-grade fever not only does not pose too much of a threat to the human body, but also improves the baby's resistance, makes the bacteria weaker, and is conducive to defeating inflammation.
If the baby is fed fever medicine as soon as the parent has a fever, it will weaken the baby's ability to fight the disease in the future, and even cover up the real condition and delay the treatment time. Therefore, as long as the simple body temperature does not exceed 38.5 degrees, do not rush to take medicine, should be physically cooled and defervescence, pay attention to hydration for the baby, and prevent dehydration.
If the baby has crying incessantly, poor response, high fever or high fever convulsions, and at the same time with frequent vomiting, unconsciousness and other symptoms, you should seek medical treatment as soon as possible and should not delay the condition.
Baby fever, how should parents cool down correctly?
After the baby has a fever, first undo the baby's clothes, which has achieved the purpose of heat dissipation. If the wrong way of covering the sweat to reduce fever is adopted, it will only cause high fever convulsions in infants and young children. Secondly, keep the indoor temperature at 21 °C ~ 24 °C, and need to be ventilated regularly. Finally, give the baby a warm bath or use a warm towel to help the baby wipe the body, focusing on the neck, armpits, groin, arms, calf bends and other large blood vessels flowing through the site, speeding up the skin heat dissipation.
Do not rub with alcohol, alcohol will be absorbed by the skin, large amounts may lead to poisoning, and alcohol will also produce disulfiram-like reactions with some drugs (such as cephalosporins), symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and even organ failure and death.
Second, the baby has a fever for more than 3 days and does not go to the hospital? wrong!
After taking the medicine, the fever receded, the physical cooling fever receded, and the body temperature rose after a while, which is this repeated symptom that makes many parents hover between going to the hospital or observing at home, and then delaying the disease. It is true that the baby's fever is observed, but the observation also needs to be measured. Generally speaking, if the symptoms do not lessen for more than 3 days, they should be sent to the hospital for treatment, and the longer the delay, the higher the chance of comorbidities!
In addition, if symptoms are not well controlled, body temperature will increase. Infants and young children have imperfect nervous system development, and once burned to more than 39 degrees, they are prone to hyperthermic convulsions. Symptoms are: systemic spasms, convulsions, foaming at the mouth, and even suffocation. Once the baby has the above symptoms, parents should be given antipyretic drugs and immediately sent to the hospital for treatment.
Repeated fevers should be dealt with, and symptomatic treatment can effectively cool down
Repeated fevers in your baby indicate poor immunity, lack of symptomatic treatment, or other co-infections. For infants and young children, taking medicine can not be withdrawn, it is recommended to give anti-infection or anti-viral treatment. Generally speaking, the causes of fever in babies are divided into: viral infections, bacterial infections and mycoplasma infections. Baby illness must be treated symptomatically to find the cause, only to find the cause of repeated infection, in order to fundamentally solve the problem.
Finally, we remind everyone that babies often do not eat due to sore throats during fever, so it is difficult to feed water and medicine. If the baby is young and accompanied by recurrent fever, infusion therapy can be provided, and the course of the disease is generally 5 to 7 days, during which there will still be repeated recurrent fever, but it will gradually heal.