What should I do if my child has a high fever and red spots on his body?

Children at home often have fever. At this time, parents should provide comprehensive care, such as calming the baby's emotions. In terms of diet, they should give the children more liquid food, such as milk powder, porridge, lotus root powder, etc. These foods are very nutritious and easy to digest. Many children will develop red spots on their bodies when they have a high fever. There are the following methods to solve this problem.

What should I do if my child has a high fever and red spots on his body?

The red spots on the baby's body after having a fever are symptoms of roseola infantum, which is a common disease in early childhood. Most children have had this disease before the age of 2. It is also called fever rash or roseola. It is caused by a virus and is a common rash infectious disease in infancy and childhood. The disease is characterized by a sudden high fever that usually lasts about 4 days, followed by a pink, spotted rash all over the body.

Commonly used cooling measures for children with persistent fever include:

1. Physical cooling. Spray bath with warm water, put ice cubes in a watertight plastic bag and wrap it with a dry towel to apply to the head and neck, and you can also apply to the armpits and groin. It is not recommended to use cold water or alcohol for bathing.

2. Use medicine to reduce fever. Acetaminophen (for children > 3 months old) or ibuprofen (for children > 6 months old) are commonly used, either orally or rectally, and can be used every 4 to 6 hours. Aspirin should be used with caution in children (it can cause Swiss syndrome). The use of hormones alone to reduce fever is generally not recommended. It is not advisable to use drugs to reduce fever in newborns because their body temperature regulation function is not yet fully developed.

3. Artificial hibernation therapy is a cooling method that combines drugs (chlorpromazine and promethazine mixed in equal amounts) and physical cooling. Artificial hibernation has a powerful protective inhibitory effect on the central nervous system, which can make the body fall asleep, lower the temperature, reduce the metabolic rate and oxygen consumption. It is mainly suitable for patients with persistent high fever or convulsions caused by severe infection, such as toxic bacterial dysentery, viral encephalitis, purulent meningitis, etc.

Liquid food that children can eat when they have a fever:

1. Milk. Milk can provide children with a certain amount of protein, and adding an appropriate amount of rice soup can provide some carbohydrates.

2. Rice soup. Rice soup can provide children with carbohydrates, and it has sufficient water content, making it easier for sick children to absorb it through their stomachs. Boil the rice until it is soft and remove the residue to get rice soup.

3. Mung bean soup. Mung beans are benign and have the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying and relieving summer heat.

4. Fresh fruit juice. The main ingredients of fresh fruit juice are vitamins, minerals and carbohydrates. It only contains a small amount of plant protein and is easy to absorb. In summer, you can drink watermelon juice, which has the effects of clearing away heat, quenching thirst and promoting diuresis. In autumn and winter, you can drink fresh pear juice, which has the effects of moistening the lungs, clearing the heart, relieving cough, and removing phlegm. Fresh orange juice has the effects of removing dampness, resolving phlegm, clearing the lungs, and unblocking meridians.