What should I do if my child has a fever and neck pain?

Children are very susceptible to viral infection and thus disease because their body functions and immunity are lower than those of adults. It is very common for children to have a cold and a fever. Children with a fever usually have fever all over the body, dizziness, anorexia, nausea and vomiting, but due to different physical conditions, some people may also have neck pain. So what should we do if children have a fever and neck pain?

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, if a child has a fever and neck pain, it is because the foot-sun bladder meridian has been exposed to cold. Coldness has a contracting nature, and when the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian is exposed to cold, it will cause muscle tension and pain along the meridian's course.

1. You can massage the back of your child's neck muscles to relieve discomfort.

2. You can try decocting Pueraria lobata to relieve muscle discomfort, but the dosage needs to be larger.

3. "Ma Huang Tang" can be used with modifications to dispel the cold and relieve the symptoms. It is best to ask a local experienced Chinese medicine doctor to diagnose the disease before using Chinese medicine for treatment.

There are many causes of fever in children, which can be roughly divided into the following three categories:

1. External factors:

Children's body temperature is affected by the external environment, such as wearing too many clothes when it is hot, drinking too little water, and poor ventilation in the room.

2. Internal factors:

Sickness, cold, tracheitis, sore throat or other illness.

3. Other factors :

Such as preventive injections, including measles, cholera, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and other reactions.

Fever is only one symptom of the disease, not all of it. Dr. Song Wenju, director of the pediatric department, said that when it comes to fever, doctors are concerned about the impact and progression of the disease itself, but parents usually only see the appearance of the disease, such as fever, vomiting, and coughing, and then become panicked. Little do people know that when doctors treat diseases, the most important thing is to discover the cause of the disease and find a way to completely cure it, rather than simply reducing the fever. So in some cases, the fever symptoms will be allowed to continue to appear in order to find the true underlying cause of the disease. Therefore, he reminded loving parents not to blindly ask doctors to reduce fever or treat fever symptoms, but to follow the doctor's advice, accurately find out the real cause of the fever and prescribe the right medicine.