I often receive help from my mother in the background:
My child's body temperature will be particularly high, will it burn out the brain? My child is now 38.5°, should I give the drug now? My child has a high fever and can't feed the medicine, what should I do? ......
If your child has a fever, will he burn his brain?
1. Fever is only an indicator of diagnosis
There is absolutely no need for parents to have such concerns, no need to suspect or fear that the condition will worsen based on body temperature. Body temperature is only used as one of the indicators of judgment, not as the main indicator.
2, how to develop the disease, but also to see the medical potential
Will your child become encephalitis or myocarditis because of fever? From the perspective of Chinese medicine, the main thing is to see the medical situation.
If the fever is not dissipated in time, the heat is not dispersed outward, then it will be blocked inside, especially easy to block in the pericardium, it will be hot and yin, it will cause encephalitis, myocarditis.
If the heat goes inward, the child has the possibility of deterioration, so the key is not the temperature, but the trend of the disease.
Do I need medication if my child has a fever?
1. Do not actively administer drugs to force fever reduction
Chinese medicine does not advocate actively giving children antipyretic drugs, because fever is an instinctive reaction of the human body, which can make the body's immunity actively mobilize.
Chinese medicine especially emphasizes that we should not actively give antipyretic drugs and artificially force fever reduction, but let our immune system fully participate in the struggle.
2. These conditions can be administered
If your child has a situation, he or she may consider giving the drug:
Particularly irritable, particularly restless
Hyperactive and in a bad state
It's particularly uncomfortable
At such a time, you can give your child a little Merlin or Tylenol, these two antipyretic drugs are safer for children, but also make them feel more comfortable, and can cheer up the spirit to better fight the virus.
Although it does not burn the brain, it may cause febrile seizures
When your child has a fever, it may sometimes cause febrile seizures. Hyperthermic convulsions are a clinically common disease, and its pathogenesis is often like this:
When a child has just begun to have a fever (for example, in the first hour or two of a fever), the rapid rise in body temperature stimulates the brain more intensely, and some children with a poorly developed brain nervous system will cause high fever convulsions.
What if my child has a high fever and convulsions?
When children have high fever and convulsions, they often lose consciousness, their eyes are staring but not conscious, they can't wake up, their muscles twitch, and their whole body is tense.
Sometimes the teeth are closed, sometimes the mouth is open, accompanied by an increase in oral secretions, and sometimes there is phlegm in the throat, but in fact it is an increase in secretions. So our rescue, the main thing is to prevent suffocation.
1. Cheek pinch car hole
When the child has a high fever and convulsions, you can let him lie down and pinch his cheek. The buccal cavity is where the masseter muscle bulges highest when our teeth bite together.
If the child's convulsions are relatively light, it can generally wake him up and return to normal from the state of convulsions; if the child's convulsions are heavy, they cannot be woken up immediately, but they can let him open his mouth, so that the secretions in the mouth can flow out effectively, and they will not be inhaled into the throat and trachea to cause suffocation.
2. Lie on your side and pat your back
After having your child lie down, don't lie flat, be sure to lie on your side. Lying on the side can allow the secretions of the mouth to flow out of the open mouth, so that it will not be blocked in the mouth all the time; and then pat the back to promote the outflow of secretions, the child's safety will be more secure.
If there is no side lying, but lying or lying flat, it is easy to cause secretions to be sucked and cause tracheal asphyxia, which is very dangerous.
3. Do not apply ice
If we wake up the child, check whether his hands and feet are cold, and if so, continue to soak in hot water and a hot towel to reduce the possibility of continuing to cause high fever convulsions.
One thing to note is that when the child has high fever and convulsions, do not apply ice to cool down. Because you gave him a physical ice compress to cool down, the heat is still ice in it, blocked inside, the heat dissipation process is not completed, and the high-heat convulsions will be the second and third episodes.