The baby has a fever in hot weather.
Children are weak, have poor immunity and have a hot summer climate. Once they get sick, they will feel worse. Parents must understand how to alleviate the symptoms of children's colds and fever.
Common colds in summer can be divided into two categories: summer cold and summer cold.
Wet and cold in summer, commonly known as "hot and cold", is usually caused by gluttony and air conditioning for too long in summer, with symptoms such as stuffy nose, fever and runny nose.
Wet and cold in summer can't be treated by covering sweat, which will have the opposite effect. To cure summer-heat dampness and cold, summer-heat dampness must be removed first. When children catch a cold due to dampness in summer, they can eat more dampness-removing ingredients such as wax gourd, red beans and barley, and add more water, and the cold will naturally get better.
Summer heat cold, also known as "gastrointestinal cold", is a common cold that easily occurs when the summer climate is dry and hot. Often accompanied by sweating without fever, upset thirst, sore throat, weakened spleen and stomach function, as well as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and so on.
When the symptoms of summer heat and cold are mild, you can use ingredients to recuperate. Give children more mung bean soup, eat some heat-clearing foods such as cucumbers and tomatoes, and eat less greasy and sweets. If a child has diarrhea symptoms during a cold, it can be relieved by oral rehydration salts or glucose electrolyte effervescent tablets.
In summer, children are most afraid of fever. Go to the hospital. It is often inevitable to take medicine by injection. It's too painful not to go to the hospital, and it's hot.
In fact, fever is a self-protection mechanism initiated by the human body. When the body temperature is high, the body will automatically turn on the cooling mode. If the child has a fever, but his mental state is good and he has no convulsions, there is no need to go to the hospital at all, just take good care of him at home.
Many parents have heard of physical cooling. When a child has a fever, he or she lowers his or her body temperature without taking medicine. But in fact, physical cooling has no practical effect, can not achieve the purpose of reducing fever, can only make the baby comfortable.
There are some widely circulated physical cooling methods, which are actually ineffective. Parents must know.
Sweating: Excessive sweating may lead to dehydration in children. The underdeveloped sweat glands in children may cause "heat syndrome".
? Wipe your body with alcohol/cold water: not only can you not reduce your fever, but it will make your fever worse.
? Ice compress: can't achieve the purpose of reducing fever.
Physical cooling is not recommended in many countries, or only for children with high fever, so physical cooling can only be used as an auxiliary means. Ordinary fever can enhance children's immunity, and generally a good rest for a day or two will reduce the fever.
However, if the baby's axillary temperature exceeds 38.2℃, or the body temperature exceeds 39℃ (no history of febrile convulsions), please use antipyretics immediately.
When giving children antipyretics, it is best not to use different drugs alternately to avoid drug allergy or poisoning. The onset time of antipyretics is about 30 minutes to 45 minutes. Parents must read the instructions carefully and pay attention to the dosage when using antipyretics. If the baby under 3 months has a fever, please see a doctor immediately!
In the process of children's fever, in addition to using antipyretics, you can also help relieve the discomfort of children in the following ways.
? Drink plenty of water for children: Parents can feed their children with water every fifteen minutes or so, and keep their lips moist, not too much.
? Reduce the ambient temperature: keep the room ventilated and humid, and the indoor temperature is about 25℃. When the room temperature is higher than 28℃, when the children's hands and feet are warm and sweating all the time, they can wear less clothes to help them dissipate heat. You can also turn on the air conditioner when necessary, as long as you don't blow it at the children.
? Give your child more liquid food: high temperature will increase the metabolism of nutrients in your baby. Give children more digestible liquid foods, such as rice porridge, to replenish water, and also give children some fruits rich in vitamin C to supplement nutrition.
When a child is sick, the parents are the most distressed, but whether it is a cold or a fever, it is a way to improve their immunity. If the child takes medicine as soon as he has a cold and takes an injection as soon as he has a fever, it is not good for the child's health.
As long as it is not serious, the child's immune system can completely eliminate the disease. However, if the fever persists for three days, parents must take their children to the hospital in time to find out the reason!