What to do if your child has a fever and cold hands and feet

It is common for children to have fever, and there are many reasons for fever. Generally, fever is mainly caused by cold or tonsillitis. After a child has a fever, not only will the body temperature rise, but some children will also have cold hands and feet. This is also a situation that many parents are particularly worried about. When a child has a fever and cold hands and feet, we must pay attention to it. Let’s learn about what to do if a child has a fever and cold hands and feet?

When a child has a fever and his hands and feet are cold, this is a phenomenon of false cold and real heat, which is especially common in infants and young children under 3 years old. This is mainly because babies (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 baby's nervous system is not yet fully developed, and the autonomic nerves responsible for managing vasodilation and contraction are prone to disorder, causing the small blood vessels at the ends of the limbs to be in a spasmodic contraction state and become cold when the high fever first occurs. Many parents do not understand this situation. Once they find their baby's limbs are cold, they mistakenly think that the baby has caught a cold and is afraid of the cold, so they immediately wrap the baby tightly. As a result, the baby's body temperature cannot be dissipated in time and keeps rising, and even high fever and convulsions occur.

If the body temperature exceeds 38.5 degrees, do not reduce the fever too quickly when the child has a fever. Many parents are eager to reduce their children's fever because they are worried that the fever will damage their children's brains and affect their intelligence. In fact, a simple fever will not affect the intellectual development of children. If the baby has other discomforts, it is recommended to see a doctor to see if there is any inflammation or something, and it is better to prescribe some medicine for the baby to take.

Through the above introduction on what to do if a child has a fever and cold hands and feet, we now know how to deal with this situation. Generally, physical cooling methods are mainly used. If the child has a serious fever, be sure to take the child to the hospital for examination and treatment in time. Also, make sure to let the child drink more water.