What to do if the child's fever does not go down after taking antipyretics

Children's immune systems and body functions are not fully developed as those of adults, so they need more careful care. Colds are a common disease and are easy to cure, but when it comes to children, the situation can sometimes become very complicated. Especially when children have a fever, many parents are afraid that the fever will damage their children's organs and are very anxious. Here are some tips to reduce fever to solve the urgent problem.

1 Physical cooling

When children have a fever, it is best to use physical cooling if the temperature is below 38.5℃, such as drinking more water, taking a bath with warm water and alcohol, etc.

All antipyretic drugs, such as paracetamol and compound aspirin, contain ingredients such as caffeine and phenacetin, which have significant side effects. The nervous inhibition mechanism of infants and young children is not yet fully developed. If used when the fever is high, it can easily induce convulsions, cause collapse due to excessive sweating, and even cause jaundice due to the accumulation of free bilirubin in the blood. It also causes damage to the digestive system and liver and kidney functions. If you must use antipyretics, please use them under the guidance of a doctor.

2. What to do when you have a high fever

Regardless of the cause of the high fever, taking Tylenol or applying a fever-reducing patch should help reduce the fever. If the effect is not good, it is recommended that the child drink more warm water, because the fever-reducing drug lowers the temperature through the mechanism of sweating.

If your baby is sick,

Insufficient water intake leads to insufficient blood volume and lack of water in the body, which may cause the child to have a persistent fever. In addition, if the baby has a high fever, it takes a certain amount of time to reduce the fever with medicine. Physical cooling can be combined. A simple method is to wipe the bends of the limbs, groins and other large blood vessels with a towel soaked in warm water or low-alcohol liquor. This is conducive to the expansion of skin capillaries and helps to lower body temperature.

Common liquid foods include:

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 juice

In summer, you can drink watermelon juice, which has the effects of clearing away heat, quenching thirst, and 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 dredging the meridians.

Fresh pear juice has the effects of clearing heat, moistening the lungs and relieving cough. It is suitable for babies with fever and cough.

Fresh apple juice contains a lot of vitamin C, which can not only supplement the baby's nutritional needs, but also neutralize toxins in the baby's body. After a child has a fever for a few days, he or she often does not want to eat. Parents will become very worried and ask the child to eat more after the fever subsides.

Physical cooling for baby's fever

In fact, the best way to reduce a baby's fever is physical cooling, and some habitual behaviors and methods in our daily life are physical cooling, such as: applying a fever patch on the child's forehead, wiping the body with alcohol, etc., these are all physical cooling methods. Below I will give you a detailed introduction to the physical cooling methods for babies with fever.