"Baby has a fever? Use the antipyretic sticker quickly, and it will work! I believe that in real life, most parents have heard similar words, of course, there are more exaggerated, "antipyretic patches protect the brain, high fever will burn children, causing intellectual disability", similar threatening rumors must have been heard by many people.
Recently, influenza A has been rampant, and many primary and secondary schools have had problems with children being infected, and many schools have been reported in the news before. But some time ago, our side was generally fine, until last week, the weather suddenly changed, rainy and rainy, and many primary and secondary schools began to show signs of influenza A outbreak.
In my child's class, for example, 18 of the current class of 46 have called in sick because of influenza A, and some colleagues also said that the proportion of his children's schools is higher. This A stream ah, really menacing, and this symptom is a little similar to last year's "Yang", are rapid high fever, will reach 39-40 degrees, but repeated fever, accompanied by sore throat, dizziness, abdominal pain symptoms, my child is also unfortunately hit.
The night before, the child suddenly became in a bad state, and then let go to bed, but always dizzy but unable to sleep, and soon began to have a high fever, which reached 38.6 in one fell swoop, and after half an hour, it had reached 39.6. After feeding antipyretic drugs, he sweated profusely, and his body temperature slowly dropped to 37.6.
Finally let the child sleep until 5.6 a.m., the body temperature began to rise again, at this time the wife asked, is there any antipyretic patch at home, I said no. After all, the child has not had a high fever for a long time after growing up, and he has not prepared this thing for a long time, so he took some physical cooling measures and tossed until the morning to get up.
My wife said to take the child to the hospital in the morning to get some medicine, and then buy some antipyretic stickers when I go home, I said in my heart that the antipyretic stickers are useless at all, but thinking that there is no need to argue with my wife, I agreed, after taking leave in the morning to take the child to the hospital to get the medicine, I went to the pharmacy downstairs in the community, and found that the antipyretic stickers in the pharmacy are basically placed in a more conspicuous position on the shelf, just pick up a box and see, 6 stickers cost 39 yuan, 2 stickers cost 18 yuan, almost 6-9 yuan a sticker, And what is the cost of this thing, I think everyone understands, a little hydrogel on a piece of gauze, the cost of a dollar will not be used, and what else has this huge profit?
I remember buying this thing a few years ago, when the antipyretic patch was indeed more prosperous, especially the children were small, all kinds of mom groups are recommending this thing, holding a peace of mind, also bought some, remember about 3-4 yuan a sticker, in fact, I opened it to understand what was going on, only the child's mother was "Amway" by various mom groups, stupidly believed in this thing, and liked to buy and use it at every turn.
Unexpectedly, a few years have passed, this ghost thing is actually getting more and more expensive, normally, with a large number of applications and popularization, production and research and development costs are rapidly declining, how has it been rising in price, it seems that over the years under the continuous flickering and "anxiety marketing" of merchants, many people have accepted this thing, so many people superstitious antipyretic stickers are more effective than antipyretic drugs.
Are antipyretic stickers really that godly? All the antipyretic stickers sold on the market, most of them are a gel paste, the main working principle is to use hydrogel vapor volatilization, take away the forehead heat, belongs to the physical cooling method, but when the child has a high fever, let alone paste a small antipyretic patch on the forehead, that is, the child's whole body is soaked in warm water, and the cooling effect is also very limited. Therefore, the antipyretic patch can not reduce the heat in the child's body from the root, so there will be no magical effect as rumored.
Moreover, most of the world's medical authorities and the mainland's fever guidelines have not recommended that children use antipyretic patches for fever. Antipyretic treatment still depends on taking medicine and injections, and listening to professional doctors more than being fooled by businesses.
Antipyretic sticker The so-called antipyretic is actually a placebo labeled with science and technology, mainly the business captures the psychology of parents who feel sorry for their children and worry about their children, to obtain benefits through hype anxiety, antipyretic stickers, in the final analysis, is a proper IQ tax!