What should I do if my child has low white blood cell count and high fever?

Spring is the peak season for influenza, and colds and fevers often visit us weak children. When a fever occurs, parents must not take medicine on their own. They need to go to the hospital for blood tests, find out the cause, and treat it accordingly. Often when children have a fever, the white blood cell count will be high in the routine blood test report, but in a small number the white blood cell count will be low. Parents will be particularly nervous. Doctors may be busy and will not explain each result in detail to parents. So what does the high or low white blood cell count mean? Let's listen to the detailed introduction from the experts below.

Because children have poor ability to adapt to the external environment and their immune systems are not yet fully developed, any discomfort can easily lead to fever symptoms, or their body temperature may rise again quickly after taking medicine to reduce the fever. Especially in the hot summer, if parents use the air conditioner improperly or the baby drinks less water and cannot adapt to the high temperature weather, it will cause repeated fever.

There are many causes of fever:

1. If bacteria or viruses invade, they may cause respiratory or gastrointestinal infections and lead to fever. What parents can do is to provide adequate nutrition according to the child's age and physical development, and add complementary foods in a timely, reasonable and balanced manner.

2. Low white blood cell count and persistent fever indicate a viral infection, which usually takes about a week to fully heal. This is related to the human body's biological clock. It is the same whether you take medicine or not, and it is the same whether you get an IV drip or not, unless people who abuse hormones can get better earlier, but they will be more likely to get sick later and have a higher fever. This is called rebound.

At present, you can use some Chinese patent medicines for clearing away heat and detoxifying, such as: Xiaoer Chiqiao Granules, Antiviral Oral Liquid, Pueraria Dimer Anti-inflammatory Oral Liquid, etc. (choose one to take orally).

3. Requirements during the illness: Eat a light diet, do not eat high-protein foods, especially eggs, otherwise the fever will be higher. Eat liquid or semi-liquid diet and avoid greasy food. Get more rest and stay quiet indoors. The air should be fresh, and open the windows for ventilation for at least 2 to 3 hours several times a day. Drinking more boiled water or vegetable and fruit juice will help sweating and urination, and promote the excretion of toxins. Wipe off sweat from your body frequently and keep your skin clean to avoid catching a cold again.