Parents must know these countermeasures when children have colds and fevers in summer!
Just after the summer solstice, the temperature soared. Air conditioning became the only comfort in hot weather, but the alternation of hot and cold is most likely to cause colds and fevers.
Children are weak and have poor immunity. The weather is hot in summer, so they will be doubly uncomfortable once they get sick. Parents must know how to relieve the symptoms of cold and fever in their children.
Common colds in summer are divided into two categories: summer-wet cold and summer-heat cold.
Summer cold, commonly known as "heat cold", is usually caused by being too cold and blowing the air conditioner for too long in summer. Symptoms include nasal congestion, fever, runny nose, etc.
Summer cold cannot be treated by covering your sweat, as this will be counterproductive. To treat summer-heat cold, the first step is to relieve heat and remove dampness. When a child suffers from summer-heat cold, you can give the child more dehumidifying ingredients such as winter melon, red beans, barley, etc., and add a little more water, and the cold will be cured naturally.
Summer cold, also known as "stomach cold", is a cold that is easy to occur when the climate is dry and hot in summer. It is often accompanied by symptoms of sweating without fever, upset, thirst, and sore throat. At the same time, the function of the spleen and stomach is weakened, and symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may also occur.
When the symptoms of summer heat and cold are mild, you can adjust them with ingredients. Give your children more mung bean soup, eat some heat-clearing foods such as cucumbers, tomatoes, etc., and eat less greasy foods and sweets. If your child has diarrhea when they have a cold, they can be relieved with oral rehydration salts or glucose electrolyte effervescent tablets.
In summer, you are most afraid of children having a fever. Go to the hospital. Injections and medicine are often unavoidable. I don't want to go to the hospital. I keep having a fever. Coupled with the hot weather, I feel really miserable.
In fact, fever is a self-protection mechanism activated by the human body. When the body temperature is high, the body will automatically turn on the heat dissipation mode. If the child's fever persists, but he is in good spirits and does not have convulsions, there is no need to go to the hospital at all. He just needs to be cared for at home.
Many parents have heard of physical cooling, which is a way to lower the child's body temperature without taking medicine when the child has a fever. But in fact, physical cooling has no actual effect. It cannot achieve the purpose of reducing fever, but can only make the baby feel a little more comfortable.
There are some widely circulated physical cooling methods that are actually ineffective and parents must know this.
?Cover your sweat: Excessive sweating may cause your child to become dehydrated. Children's sweat glands are underdeveloped, which may cause "heat-covering syndrome".
? Rubbing yourself with alcohol/cold water: Not only will it not reduce the fever, it will also make the fever worse.
? Ice compress: cannot achieve the purpose of reducing fever.
Physical cooling is not recommended in many countries, or is only recommended for children with high fever. Therefore, physical cooling can only be used as an auxiliary method. A common fever can enhance a child's immunity. Generally, a good rest for one or two days can reduce the fever.
However, if the baby's axillary temperature exceeds 38.2℃, or the body temperature exceeds 39℃ (without a history of febrile convulsions), and the baby's mental state is obviously poor, please use antipyretic drugs immediately.
When using antipyretics for children, it is best not to use different drugs alternately to avoid drug allergy or poisoning. The onset time of antipyretic drugs is about 30min-45min. Parents must read the instructions carefully when using antipyretics and pay attention to the dosage. If a baby under 3 months old has a fever, please seek medical attention immediately!
When a child has a fever, in addition to using antipyretics, the following methods can also be used to help relieve the child's discomfort.
? Give your children more water: Parents can feed their children water every fifteen minutes or so to keep their lips moist, not too much.
? Reduce the ambient temperature: Keep the room ventilated and moist. The most suitable indoor temperature is around 25°C. When the room temperature is higher than 28°C and the child's hands and feet are warm and sweating all the time, the child can wear less clothes to facilitate heat dissipation. You can also turn on the air conditioner when necessary, as long as it doesn't blow on the children.
? Give your child more liquid food: High temperature will increase the metabolism of nutrients in the baby's body. Give your child more easily digestible liquid food, such as white porridge, which can replenish water. You can also give your child some rich food. Fruits containing vitamin C, supplement nutrition.
Parents are the most distressed when their children are sick, but whether it is a cold or a fever, it is a way to improve the child's own immunity. If a child is given medicine as soon as he catches a cold and an injection is given as soon as he has a fever, it will be detrimental to the child's health.
As long as it is not serious, the child’s immune system can completely eliminate the disease.
But if the fever does not go away in three days, parents must take their children to the hospital in time to find out the cause!