What to do if your child has a fever and refuses to take medicine

A child's body is still in the development stage, and it needs a variety of nutrients every day to allow the body to develop well. A child may have a fever when he catches a cold. The cause of the fever should be found out in time and treated symptomatically, because medicine is bitter. Generally, children do not take medicine when they have a fever. In addition to taking medicine, there are other ways to lower the body temperature. Many parents don’t know what to do if their children refuse to take medicine when they have a fever. What should they do if their children refuse to take medicine when they have a fever? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. What should I do if my child has a fever and refuses to take medicine?

If your child refuses to take medicine when he has a fever, don't be too nervous. As long as the child's temperature is below 38.5℃, it is okay for him not to take medicine. At this time, you can first use physical cooling methods for the child, such as wiping the child's skin all over the body with diluted alcohol or white wine, especially the palms, soles of the feet, armpits, groin, neck and other places with rich large blood vessels. The wiping time can be slightly longer. In addition, you can also use cooling patches on your child to make him or her feel more comfortable. You can apply them on the forehead, neck, or armpits. If the child's body temperature exceeds 38.5℃, he or she must take antipyretic and analgesic drugs. If the child really refuses to take, he or she needs to be taken to the hospital for injection treatment.

2. Causes of fever in children

Common causes of fever in pediatrics include infectious and non-infectious factors. In fact, the most common causes of fever are infectious factors, such as bacterial infection, viral infection, and mycoplasma infection. In the past two years, fevers caused by Epstein-Barr virus infection have gradually increased. Therefore, if the fever lasts for more than three days, parents should not naively think that it may be a common disease. It is recommended to go to the hospital. There is also non-infectious fever. Non-infectious fever includes connective tissue diseases, such as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and lupus erythematosus. These are fevers caused by connective tissue diseases. There are also parents who are very panicked, especially those who have just renovated their houses and feel that the materials are not environmentally friendly enough. They will definitely know that it is leukemia. Diseases of the blood system like this will also mainly symptomize with fever. Therefore, whether it is connective disease, leukemia, or non-infectious fever, there are some corresponding examinations to support it in clinical practice. So let’s get back to infection and fever, which is more common in clinical practice. For example, upper respiratory tract infection, commonly known as the cold, as well as bronchitis and pneumonia, are common respiratory infections that are prone to fever. Infections of the digestive system, such as enteritis and dysentery, are also easily accompanied by fever, or more familiar viral infections can also cause fever. Therefore, the most common infections clinically are bacterial and viral infections, as well as mycoplasma infections in the past two years, namely mycoplasma pneumonia, which is also prone to fever. There is also the Epstein-Barr virus.

3. Reminder

If the lymph nodes are swollen during the fever, the snoring is loud at night, and the tonsils are festering, you should pay attention to whether it is a viral infection, such as Epstein-Barr virus infection, and go to the clinic to confirm it.