Children have fever during the dog days

When the dog days of summer come, families with children must pay attention to cooling down the children and prevent them from getting heatstroke. It is appropriate to choose some cool foods. However, it is also common for children to have a fever during the dog days. At this time, we need to find out the reason. Because the weather is relatively hot and humid, that is, the humidity is too heavy, if you take your children out without proper protection, they are likely to get heatstroke. Therefore, when a child has a fever during the dog days, the temperature must be reduced in time. If the fever exceeds 39 degrees, oral antipyretics must be taken.

Generally, there are two types of moisture invasion, internal or external, but the most common one is caused by the interaction between internal and external factors.

1. The external environment we are in during the dog days of summer

During the dog days, the air is hot, humid and dirty. "Fu" in the dog days means "lurking at home", so don't take your children out often in hot weather as they are prone to heatstroke and dampness. It is better to go out early in the morning, after a rain, or when it is cool outside and the air is fresh.

Because the outdoor air is too humid and hot, coupled with the heat of summer, the dampness will be aggravated, thus causing more diseases caused by dampness.

2. The internal environment of our human body during the dog days

During the dog days, the body's yang energy floats outside, qi and blood flow outward, and the spleen and stomach functions in the body are relatively weak. Therefore, if you want to treat winter diseases in summer and eliminate dampness, you should eat more warm and easily digestible foods.

The mixture of these two internal and external factors will make children more likely to catch a cold due to dampness in the summer, and this disease caused by dampness is more likely to recur.

However, children are more likely to get sick in hot weather, which is only a trigger. The real reason is that we raise children in hot weather, which goes against the laws of nature, exposes their bodies to moisture and punishes them. Just think about violating traffic rules while driving, which may result in a minor fine or a major traffic accident.

2. Common parenting details that violate the laws of nature

1. Unreasonable use of air conditioning

The temperature is high in summer, and some rooms are stuffy and hot. The heat is very strong. Turning on the air conditioner moderately can help relieve the heat.

How to turn on the air conditioner, here are three tips:

Try not to drive in the morning unless you have to.

Although summer is hot, it is also a good time for the human body to increase its yang energy, especially in the morning when the yang energy rises. If we follow this "heat", we can help children strengthen their physical fitness. With a stronger physical fitness, they will naturally get sick less.

After the child falls asleep at night, try to open it as little as possible, or better yet, not open it at all.

After falling asleep, the yang energy on the surface of the body during the day will go inside, which is equivalent to the security guard of our body going off duty. If the temperature is low at this time, it is very easy to catch a cold and get sick, not to mention that some children have the habit of kicking off their quilts. The temperature in the room should not be too low. Many people recommend that the temperature should be set at "26℃", but the reality is that if the doors and windows are closed, this temperature still feels cold in winter, and it is basically in wind-chill mode, making it easy to catch a cold and get wet.

If you don't consider wasting electricity, open a window or door according to the actual situation.

This way the air can circulate and it won’t be as cold in winter. The best thing is to adjust the temperature to a state where you can sweat slightly when you move your body. This will both reduce the heat and conform to the health-preserving principle of moderate sweating in the summer.

2. The temperature difference between hot and cold is too large

In ancient times when there was no air conditioning, the organs of our body worked in accordance with the cycle of the four seasons, and our genes were also accustomed to this working mode. But now with the advancement of technology, summer can turn into winter in an instant, and winter can turn into summer in an instant. However, the human body's genes have not evolved to be able to switch between summer and winter instantly. Especially since children's internal organs are not yet fully developed, their body's ability to self-adjust is weaker than that of adults. Children often go in and out of air-conditioned rooms, and the open pores will lead to the cold evil entering the body.

Children's resistance is unable to resist, so they will naturally experience various symptoms of dampness such as runny nose, sneezing, dizziness and weakness.

Especially when going out, the air conditioning at home is at low temperature, and then it immediately becomes hot outside. This rapid change between hot and cold is unbearable for many adults, not to mention children. So when children are not in good condition, do not go out in high temperatures.

3. Other reasons

The hot summer days happen to be the summer vacation, and many children have irregular eating and sleeping habits, especially going to bed after 10 o'clock at night. This will consume body fluids. In addition, the body's body fluids are insufficient in summer, and the body's fluid deficiency will naturally lead to symptoms of dampness such as getting angry, fever, and colds. Moderate swimming in the summer is good for health, but excessive swimming is harmful to the body. This is because water is a very yin element, and the body's pores are open during swimming. If you swim for too long, moisture will invade and children will easily catch cold and become sick.