Why does the child have cold hands and feet and hot body?

Children's physical health is very easily damaged by various factors, causing children to be seriously affected by diseases during their growth and development. For example, colds and fevers are among the most common diseases among children. However, some diseases are relatively rare but very harmful. For example, why does a child have cold hands and feet and a hot body? I hope everyone can understand this.

The child has a high fever due to a cold, but his hands and feet are cold. After the body temperature gradually drops, the skin of his hands and feet slowly becomes warm again. This is a phenomenon of true heat and false cold, which is especially common in infants under three years old. This is mainly because children (especially infants) have less blood in their limbs than in their internal organs. Due to insufficient blood supply to their limbs, they are more likely to feel cold than adults. In addition, the development of children's nervous system is not yet complete, and the autonomic nervous system responsible for managing vasodilation and contraction is prone to disorder, resulting in the small blood vessels at the ends of the limbs being in a spasmodic contraction state and becoming cold when high fever first occurs.

When children have cold hands and feet, parents should carefully distinguish whether it is real cold or false cold or real heat. An easy way to tell whether your child is really cold or really hot but just pretending to be cold is to measure your child's temperature with a thermometer. If you don't have a thermometer at home, you can touch your child's armpits with your hands, or feel the warmth of the child's exhaled air face to face. If a child's hands and feet are cold, but the armpits, forehead, mouth and other parts are hot or the body temperature is too high, timely antipyretic measures should be taken, and the cause of the fever should be found out, and diagnosis and treatment should be made fundamentally to avoid delaying the disease.

In addition, the temperature of a low fever is between 37.5 and 38.5, and you cannot take antipyretics at this stage. Therefore, effective physical cooling is very important. Generally, when a baby has a fever, he or she will feel chilly with cold hands and feet and shivering, but the body will feel very hot.

Pay attention to this symptom because this is the most uncomfortable time for the baby, so you need to keep the baby warm. But it is not the case that covering the baby with a thick quilt will make him hotter and hotter. You can warm up your baby's hands and feet as soon as possible by soaking them in hot water and rubbing them.

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