Baby has a high fever and cold hands and feet

We all know that the baby of every family is the future of the family. The baby's health condition concerns every parent. Every parent hopes that their baby can grow up healthily, study hard in the future, and make contributions to the motherland. Some babies often have high fevers due to their weak constitution. So what should parents do when the baby has a high fever and cold hands and feet?

The onset of a high fever can make children irritable and even cause convulsions. Therefore, parents should pay full attention to children with fever. However, fever itself is not a disease, it is just a manifestation of disease, and many diseases can cause fever in children. Therefore, if a child has a fever, you cannot blindly use medicine to reduce the fever. You must find out what disease the child has so that you can prescribe the right medicine.

For children with fever, parents should:

1. Children's temperature should be measured and measured again after 20 minutes, and the results should be written down.

2. Help children take off some clothes and reduce bedding to facilitate heat dissipation from the body surface.

3. Put several towels or sponges in a basin of warm water, then place the towels or sponges soaked in warm water on the child's forehead or wipe the whole body. Generally, you need to wipe for 5-10 minutes at a time, and wipe again after 5 minutes. Don't wipe with cold water. Because wiping the skin with warm water will dilate the blood vessels in the skin, which is conducive to heat dissipation.

4. Give children some warm water every once in a while, because fever will consume some water in the body.

5. When a child has a high fever, with the temperature exceeding 39°C, or has had a fever for more than 24 hours, and has not improved after taking the usual cooling measures, the child should be sent to the hospital.

Warm reminder: Although children’s fever and colds are common pediatric diseases, as parents, if you do not treat them in time, there will be more terrible consequences. I hope every child can have a healthy and happy childhood.

2 What foods should children eat when they have a fever

As the saying goes: All medicines are poisonous. Children generally have poor resistance, so it is best not to give medicine immediately when children are sick. What food children eat when they have a fever should be determined according to the child's condition. Generally, fever is caused by a cold. Parents should first understand the cause of the fever. The most important thing is to prescribe the right medicine for treatment.

Babies with high fever must dissipate heat by sweating, which results in the consumption of a large amount of water. Therefore, what babies need most during a fever is water rather than food.

During the fever period, the diet must be mainly liquid or semi-liquid. The following diet is more suitable for babies with high fever:

Milk substitute powder: mainly plant protein, the nutrition is similar to milk, but easy to digest and absorb. It can be diluted and drunk according to the age and needs of the child.

Millet porridge: It is mainly composed of plant protein and carbohydrates, rich in nutrients, moderate in calories, and is most suitable for sick and weak young children.

Milk rice soup: Rice soup is rich in carbohydrates, can provide sufficient water and calories, and is easily digested by the stomach and intestines. Moreover, the carbohydrates in rice water can convert the indigestible casein molecules in milk into molecules that are easy to digest and absorb. The preparation method of milk rice soup is very simple. You just need to wash the rice slightly, add clean water to boil it, filter out the rice residue, add milk and mix well.

Mung bean soup: Mung beans have the therapeutic effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying and relieving summer heat. They are also rich in water and nutrients, making them most suitable for children under one year old. Just boil the mung beans with water and add appropriate amount of sugar or salt.

Fresh juice: Fresh fruit is rich in vitamins and contains a lot of water. After squeezing the juice, add appropriate amount of warm water and honey.

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