Hello everyone, I'm Empty Valley Youlan, mom of two children!
What should I do if my child has a fever? After fever, it is also necessary to distinguish the child's situation, otherwise it may be wrongly handled and the child will suffer a lot of sins.
The other day the weather was still very hot, so hot that they wore short sleeves, but these days it became very cold, and it is precisely because of this sudden decline in the weather that the child accidentally caught a cold and had a fever.
Therefore, as a parent, in addition to paying attention to weather changes and adding or subtracting clothes to children in time, mastering the basic common sense corresponding to some children after illness can also make children suffer less.
A few days ago, I heard that the neighbors in the same community discussed that after building A's Lele fever, he almost lived in the ICU because his mother's handling method was not right.
The cause of the incident is that Lele's mother got up and found that there was something wrong with Lele, and the child who was usually alive and well is now mentally weak. Lele's mother touched Lele's forehead with her hand and felt a little hot, so she quickly took out the thermometer to monitor Lele's body temperature of 37.5.
Lele's mother found that although Lele was in a state of fever, her hands and feet were cold, so she quickly let the child go back to the house to sleep for a while, and her mother very intimately added a quilt for Lele. According to Lele's mother's idea, cover it up and sweat it.
But things didn't go in the direction that Lele Mama had envisioned. After about half an hour, Lele's mother noticed that Lele's face was getting paler and paler, her lips were a little purple, and it was difficult to breathe. Frightened enough, Lele's mother quickly took the child to the hospital to hang up the emergency department.
The doctor who came to the doctor could not help but criticize: almost hurt the child with old experience, the child is a typical "fever syndrome", and then send it later, there will be high fever convulsions, the situation is very dangerous. Fortunately, there was no danger, and Lele, who took the medicine under the guidance of the doctor, quickly reduced the fever and did not leave any sequelae.
Why is the child's fever obviously hot, but the hands and feet are cold?
This question, when I was a new mother, was also very curious, and I also specifically asked professionals to answer, and the answer was: fever is usually caused by bacteria and viral infections caused by the hypothalamic pituitary gland to adjust the body temperature to rise. Infants and young children have cold hands and feet because of unsound nerve growth and development, less blood in the limbs than internal organs, and insufficient blood supply to the hands and feet.
In clinical medicine, it is also called "false cold internal heat", cold hands and feet do not mean that the baby's hands and feet are cold, their internal organs are still in a fever state, if you do not get effective nursing measures, the baby's high fever is very dangerous.
So after the baby has a fever, how should parents deal with it?
First of all, we must clarify a point of view, after the baby has a fever, the treatment of cold hands and feet and hot hands and feet is different, and cannot be confused:
Condition: Baby has a fever and chills in his hands and feet
The fact that your baby's hands and feet are cold after fever does not mean that your baby needs "thermal insulation measures". Because the baby's sweat glands themselves are not developed, if you use the way of "covering sweat", it is likely to cause the baby's "fever syndrome". Severe ones can cause high fever and convulsions, which are a threat to your baby's life.
The correct approach is: parents should first monitor the baby's body temperature at home, if it is below 38.5 °, then they can observe at home and do a good job of cold protection. Such as: put on thin socks for children, soak children's feet with warm water, etc., to improve the baby's nerve endings circulation.
At the same time, let the child drink more warm water, which can increase the amount of urine and promote the elimination of toxins in the body. If the fever is high to more than 38.5 degrees, you should immediately follow the doctor's instructions to give your child anti-fever medicine, or take your child to the hospital for treatment.
During this process, parents should monitor and record their child's body temperature at any time. Once it is found that the child has a persistent high fever, or a recurring high fever, it is necessary to send it to the hospital for treatment to avoid the damage to the child's brain function if the high fever does not go away.
Situation: The baby has a fever and hot hands and feet, and it is appropriate to physically cool down
If your baby's hands and feet start to burn after a fever, it proves that your baby has had a fever for a while. Parents found in the temperature check that if the baby's body temperature does not exceed 38.5 °, then you can take care of it at home, mainly based on physical cooling.
Your baby's limbs, hands and feet need to dissipate heat.
First of all, to maintain the indoor air circulation, room temperature to maintain at about 25-27 ° is appropriate, do not let the baby blow direct electric fans, air conditioning.
Secondly, physical cooling, take off too much of the baby's clothing, with warm water (37 degrees Celsius close to the temperature of the human body temperature) to wipe the baby, so that the baby's skin blood vessels dilate, to avoid sweat gland blockage, is conducive to letting the body qi out. Again, give the baby more water to drink, water has the effect of regulating the temperature, while also replenishing the loss of water in the baby's body.
Finally, as directed by a doctor, you can use an antipyretic patch to help take away the heat from your baby's body without over-cooling.
What needs to remind parents is that in addition to monitoring the baby's body temperature anytime and anywhere, it is also necessary to observe the baby's physical reaction. Such as: diarrhea, cough, rash, vomiting, etc. If the baby's condition is found to be aggravated, parents should take the child to see the doctor at the same time, to sort out the specific symptoms after the baby's fever, and tell the doctor concisely. Let the doctor quickly and accurately judge the baby's condition and give effective medication guidance.
summary:
In summary, it is the introduction of different treatment methods for different situations after the baby's fever, have you grasped it? In the case of the baby's illness and fever, parents should not blame themselves too much for their own negligence. After all, growing up, almost every child has had several unforgettable fever experiences.
Fever is not a flood beast, but a reaction to the body after the invasion of viruses or bacteria. Parents may wish to be calm, master more knowledge of child care, and "annihilate" invading viruses and bacteria as soon as possible, which is very beneficial to the healthy growth of babies!