In addition to physical cooling, you can also try this when your child has a fever

Parents should not be anxious when they see their children have a fever. Fever in children is a common disease. Modern medical research has found that it helps white blood cells resist bacterial toxins and enhance the body's immunity. If a child has a fever, parents can treat the child with simple massage techniques. Especially for infants under one year old, massage is most effective in reducing fever.

Here we need to remind everyone that if a child has cold hands and feet and a pale face when he has a fever, it means that the child's body temperature will continue to rise. On the contrary, if the child's hands and feet become warm and sweat, it means that the body temperature is beginning to drop.

Most fevers can be reduced by physical cooling or pediatric massage, but for fever caused by vaccination, massage can only be used as an auxiliary means.

Because the causes of children's fever are different, corresponding acupoints should be added during massage to reduce fever in a more targeted manner.

Fever caused by Yin deficiency and internal heat often occurs in the afternoon. Children also have symptoms such as hot palms and feet, red cheeks, unstable sleep, constipation, less and yellow urine, and their fingerprints are mostly light purple. The following acupoints can be added during massage:

Fever caused by lung and stomach heat is mostly due to the long-term unhealed external infection and the stagnation of milk and food for too long, which causes the lung and stomach to become full and stagnant, and turns into heat. The fever caused by this reason often manifests in children as high fever, red face, thirst, loss of appetite, constipation, irritability, and red tongue with dry coating. The following acupoints can be added during massage

Fever caused by cold is the most common. If the fever is caused by a cold after catching a cold, you will usually have headache, nasal congestion, clear runny nose, itchy throat, no sweating, and your fingerprints will be bright red and exposed. The following acupoints can be added to the basic acupoints during massage: