1. What should I do if my child has a fever?
1, the child has a fever. Find the cause first.
First of all, a fever is not equal to a fever. Sometimes, it seems that a child has a fever, but it is actually a fever. Children playing hard, crying, and just waking up may have a fever, but it does not mean a fever. Wait quietly for about 20 minutes, and their body temperature will return to normal. When it is found that time cannot change the body temperature, the possibility of fever will increase to 80%. It needs to be further determined by measuring body temperature. The standard of fever when measuring body temperature is: ear or anus above 38 degrees, mouth 37.8 degrees, armpit 37.2 degrees.
Secondly, there are many reasons for fever, which cannot be generalized. Children have a fever, except for the most common cold, food accumulation, summer heat, herpetic angina and so on may all have symptoms of fever. Let's look at the differences between these diseases:
Food accumulation: If the child's tongue is thick and his stomach swells like a small watermelon, and he doesn't know shit, he is not allowed to touch his stomach. If he feels sick, he can conclude that the child's fever is caused by food accumulation. The child ate too much, and there was food accumulated in his stomach, which caused a fever. There is no need to reduce the child's fever. Take some children's stomach-invigorating and digestion-promoting tablets, and the fever will slowly go away. If the child has a heavy food accumulation, you can also give the child children pills, and the effect will be better.
Summer heat: the clinical manifestations of summer heat are more than three and less than one, that is, more (long-term) fever, more thirst, more urine, less sweat or no sweat. Some children will also be accompanied by listlessness, loss of appetite, irritability, easy to cry, dry skin, dry lips and other symptoms. At this time, it is necessary to pay close attention to the changes of children's body temperature, put on light and cool clothes, and give priority to physical cooling.
Herpetic angina: Under normal circumstances, herpetic angina will show congestion in the pharynx at the initial stage, and gray-white herpes can be seen in tonsils and soft palate, which will gradually expand and rupture after 2 ~ 3 days. At this time, the child will cry, refuse to eat and continue to have a fever. Herpes angina is a common upper respiratory infection in children aged 65,438+0 to 3 years. It can recover quickly after antiviral and antipyretic treatment.
2. Try to cool down after a fever.
Some parents panic when they find that their children have a fever, dig out all kinds of antipyretics for their children at home, or the whole family rushes to the hospital. In fact, a common fever is good for the body, because it can activate the body's immune system and help sick children resist internal infection.
Pediatric experts say that if a child's temperature does not reach 38.5 degrees, it is usually not necessary to take medicine, just drink plenty of water. If parents are really uneasy, they can mainly cool down physically, such as unwrapping clothes, wiping the child's body with warm water, or putting a hot water bottle in the refrigerator to make an ice pack, and then applying it to the blood vessels of the child's armpit, both sides of the neck and thighs, or freezing and cold compressing after using a towel. If the child's body temperature continues to drop or his mental state is not good, even after taking the medicine, he still has a high fever and his face is gray, which may be more serious and he needs to see a doctor.
2. What should children eat if they have a fever?
1, rice soup. When a child has a fever, the most suitable food is rice porridge or rice soup. This kind of food is rich in nutrition and water, which is easy for sick children to absorb in the stomach. The practice of rice porridge is very simple. Just put the rice in the pot and add some water. When giving it to children, you might as well add some sugar in it, so that children will be more willing to eat.
2, mung bean soup. Mung beans are benign and have the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials and relieving summer heat.
3. Fresh juice. You can drink watermelon juice in summer, which has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, quenching thirst and diuresis; You can drink fresh pear juice in autumn and winter, which has the functions of moistening lung and clearing heart, relieving cough and resolving phlegm; Fresh orange juice has the functions of eliminating dampness, resolving phlegm, clearing lung-heat and dredging collaterals.