What should I do if my child has rubella? Parents please remember these methods!

Once a child is infected with rubella, parents must pay enough attention to it and lead the child to cooperate with the doctor for treatment. In addition, attention should be paid to the child's diet and hygiene so that the condition can improve quickly.

1. Children suffering from rubella need to abstain from certain foods. In order to better treat rubella, parents must cooperate with the doctor's treatment. This way the child can recover sooner and suffer less from the illness. Next, let’s take a look at how to deal with the problem of rubella fever in children.

2. Rubella is an acute respiratory infectious disease caused by rubella virus. Rubella virus is transmitted directly through droplets, invading the respiratory mucosa and nearby lymphoid tissue, then entering the blood and causing viremia. Therefore, symptoms such as fever appear in the early stage of rubella rash. The fever pattern of rubella fever in children is uncertain. Mild cases are only moderate fever, while severe cases have a body temperature of over 40°C. The body temperature of most children rises gradually, but some also have a sudden onset of high fever.

3. The initial symptom of rubella in children is often fever, accompanied by cough, runny nose, conjunctival congestion and rubella mucosal spots. The rash appears about 3 to 4 days after the fever occurs, and the fever increases. When the rash subsides, the body temperature begins to gradually drop to normal.

4. For fever caused by rubella, there is generally no need to rush to reduce the fever. Adequate water, an easily digestible and nutritious diet should be given. At the same time, it is best to use appropriate Chinese medicine treatment. The main principle of Chinese medicine treatment is to clear away heat, detoxify and relieve rash. Commonly used medicines include mulberry leaves, honeysuckle, forsythia, cicada shells, duckweed, kudzu root, cimicifuga, lithospermum officinale, burdock seeds, etc.

5. You can also boil Chinese herbs such as Salix babylonica, duckweed, and coriander, and use a towel soaked in the liquid to apply warm compresses to the forehead, limbs and other parts of the child. This can both reduce fever and clear the rash. And in the process of boiling the medicine liquid, water vapor is dispersed in the room to maintain the indoor humidity. For children with high body temperature, a small amount of antipyretics can be used as appropriate to avoid collapse caused by rapid fever reduction.