What are the symptoms of a child having a fever and chills?

It is very important to pay attention to children's fever, because if you don't pay attention, it may cause serious pneumonia. Therefore, parents should always pay attention to changes in their children's body temperature, because children cannot express their body changes well. When children have a fever, they may be afraid of cold, so parents should measure their children's body temperature at this time to see if they have a fever. Therefore, parents should find out what symptoms their children have when they have fever, chills and fear of cold so that they can be prepared. Specific introduction to the symptoms of children having fever, chills and fear of cold.

The most common cause of fever and chills in children is cold. There are many causes of colds, including viral colds and bacterial colds. For example, colds and influenza caused by Haemophilus influenzae, influenza A, influenza B and other viral colds are all called colds. Viral colds often cause symptoms such as chills and shivering, and may cause coughing in the later stages, and in severe cases, convulsions.

Most babies have fevers due to catching a cold. If the baby has cold hands and feet, white tongue coating, pale face, and light-colored urine during the fever, parents can use ginger and brown sugar water to dispel the cold, and add 2 to 3 one-inch long pieces of green onion to the water, which has a sweating effect.

If a baby over 2 years old has a fever, parents can give him a massage. First rub the soles of the child's feet to draw the heat to his feet. After the feet are warm, rub the calves. After the calves are warm, rub the hands, arms, back, and finally the child's ears. When massaging, be gentle and slow, and give your baby plenty of water. If the baby continues to have a fever, you can use warm water to wipe his body, and use a towel to rub the baby's body to warm and red it to dissipate heat from the baby's body; if the baby still has cold hands and feet, it means that the baby has caught a severe cold, and you can give the baby ginger and brown sugar water to drink several times in a row. Parents need to be reminded that the order of drinking scallion, ginger and brown sugar water plus massage treatment is to drink the scallion, ginger and brown sugar water first and then massage.

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