What to do if your child has a persistent cough and high fever

If a child coughs and has a high fever, parents must pay attention, because both coughing and high fever can cause lesions in other organs of the body. If not treated in time, it will cause more serious health problems for the child. Of course, in addition to actively cooperating with doctors in treatment, parents must also do a good job of care in daily life. Here are some tips on how to deal with children’s cough and high fever.

1. Drink more warm water, vegetable juice and fruit juice

Let your baby drink more water and replenish body fluids. This is the most basic method of reducing fever. It is very effective and practical and suitable for all babies with fever. Do not give your baby cold water, because fever is often accompanied by gastrointestinal symptoms and cough, and drinking cold water will aggravate these accompanying symptoms. Give your baby warm water.

2. Warm water bath

Wipe the whole body with a warm towel. This is a great way to cool down any baby who has a fever. The water temperature is more suitable at 32-34 degrees, and each wiping time should be more than 10 minutes. The key areas to wipe are the skin folds, such as the neck, armpits, elbows, groin, etc.

3. Warm water bath

The water temperature is about 3-4℃ lower than the sick child's body temperature, and each time should last 5-10 minutes. Many parents think that babies should not be bathed when they have a fever. In fact, on the contrary, giving babies a warm bath can help cool them down. A warm bath is suitable for all babies with a fever.

4. Low temperature chamber method

Place the sick child in an environment with a room temperature of about 24℃ to allow the body temperature to slowly drop. In order to allow the skin to come into contact with the outside air and help cool down, people need to wear less clothes. If conditions permit, use air conditioning to lower the room temperature. This method is suitable for babies under 1 month old, especially in summer. Just open the baby's clothes and put him in a cool place, his body temperature will slowly drop. If your baby has chills and shivering when having a fever, you should not use the low-temperature chamber method.

5. Cooling patch

Cooling patches are a new product in recent years and are very popular. In fact, their cooling effects are average and not as exaggerated as advertised. Putting a patch on the baby's forehead will make the baby's head feel more comfortable and the parents will feel more at ease too. It should be beneficial and harmless.

6. Ice

There is still much controversy about the pros and cons of this approach. Because ice compresses may cause the capillaries in the baby's skin to contract, hindering heat dissipation and causing the body temperature to be higher, especially if accompanied by chills and shivering, ice compresses should not be used.

7. Alcohol bath

Babies' skin is very thin and alcohol is highly permeable, so it may be absorbed into the blood through the skin. Moreover, alcohol baths can also irritate the skin, causing capillaries to contract, hindering heat dissipation, and causing the body temperature to be higher. This approach has been abandoned. If the baby's temperature is still over 38.5℃ after physical cooling treatment, medication should be used to reduce the fever.