What are you most afraid of when your child has a fever?
Do you want to say it too – febrile seizures!
Because in the face of it, no parent can treat it calmly, and even a grandmother is scared out of heart disease:
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The parents who have experienced it all understand, and in retrospect, there is no one who is not afraid!
So if the baby suddenly has a high fever convulsion, do you know what to do at the first time?
After the child has a fever, he takes medicine and the fever does not go away, what should he do?
Today, the University of Science and Technology will talk about high fever convulsions again, I hope that after you learn, you will never be able to use it!
When your child has a convulsion, your first reaction is not: go to the hospital!
wrong! Rushing to the hospital with the baby at the first time is not the best choice, if the child has a foreign body in the mouth, it is easy to cause secondary suffocation.
If your child has had convulsions before, has had recurrent seizures for a short period of time, or often develops a persistent state, dial 120 as appropriate to ensure that your child is breathing well.
It is not recommended to pinch people, at this time parents are anxious, easy to use too much force, causing damage.
Before there was a 1-year-old baby with high fever convulsions, the parents pinched the person, the child did not twitch but did not respond:
There is also the ability to maintain calm as much as possible, because the more chaotic the more prone to error.
Some parents rushed to cut their throats, which led to tragedy.
When a child convulses, you should never do this:
After the seizure is over, immediately go to the hospital for relevant examinations, timely screening and treatment of fever causes, especially when accompanied by serious infections.
Generally, 2 weeks after recovery from high fever seizures, an EEG should be done to rule out other diseases, such as epilepsy and intracranial infection.
In particular, there are five situations:
First appearance of convulsions;
The convulsive time exceeds 15 minutes;
Multiple seizures in a short period of time;
have a family history of epilepsy, especially on the mother's side;
Febrile seizures occur late, more than 3 years of age
High fever convulsions mostly occur above 38.5 ° C, so many parents will give their children antipyretic drugs in time.
But the question is: what if the child takes the medicine and is useless?
A child's fever is the body's fight against the virus, and it is easy to repeat it.
If you take the medicine, the body temperature does not change at all every 2 hours, and the child's spirit is not good, don't observe, go directly to the hospital.
If you take the medicine, the body temperature drops, and after a while it comes up again, rising to above 38 ° C again, at this time to see the child's mental state:
It's not bad
Every 4-6 hours, take fever reducer again, take your body temperature every 2 hours, and pay attention to the maximum temperature and fever interval.
If the body temperature is still high, change to a fever reducer, use a full dose, and remember the names and time of taking different drugs.
For example, eat Tylenol first, the effect is not good, the child is also uncomfortable, every 2 hours, eat Merrill again.
The state is poor
Go to the hospital in time to find out the cause.
In addition, when the child has a fever, in addition to taking medicine, it can also be combined with the time of oral medication for physical cooling to help the body dissipate heat.
Usually communicate with parents, many children have had 2-3 times of high fever convulsions.
The study data also pointed out that children with hyperthermic convulsions had a recurrence rate of 35%, especially the following 4 types:
Hyperthermic convulsions are most likely to occur within 24 hours of fever, but so far, there is no way to prevent it.
Only as fast as possible to control the rise of body temperature too fast.
If the child has had a history of convulsions or a family history of convulsions
When the fever body temperature exceeds 38 ° C, it is necessary to take antipyretic drugs, take sufficient amounts of drugs, and actively use physical cooling (for details, refer to the previous section).
If the child has not had convulsions
After fever, body temperature is taken every 2 hours.
If the body temperature rises too fast, the hands and feet are still cold when approaching 38.5 ° C, and there is a trend of body temperature rise, you can take anti-fever drugs in advance as appropriate.
80% of febrile seizures are simple febrile seizures that last for a short time and do not cause brain damage or mental decline.
Generally, over 6 years old, the incidence of high fever convulsions will be greatly reduced.
However, if the child has multiple convulsions, it is necessary to reduce unnecessary infections, especially to prevent upper respiratory tract infections, reduce the possibility of fever, and avoid irritation.
If complex febrile seizures are suspected, promptly go to the pediatric neurology department for information and determine follow-up treatment options.
Well, that's it for today!
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