What to do if a 12-year-old child has a persistent high fever

Children aged 12 are in the growth and development period. It is their nature to be active and lively. Due to excessive sweating or some viral infection, it is easy to cause high fever. Generally, high fever can be reduced by medication, but at the same time, we should also pay attention to some other tips to make the child's body more comfortable when the fever is high, which is also conducive to lowering the body temperature. So what should you do if a 12-year-old child has a high fever that won’t go away? Let me introduce it below.

1. Reduce clothing and quilts: When your child has a fever, remember not to let him wear too many clothes or cover him with too thick quilts. This traditional method of covering your body with sweat is not conducive to dissipating heat and reducing fever. Instead, it may cause febrile convulsions due to overheating. For many children with high fever, their body temperature can be lowered simply by reducing the amount of clothing and bedding.

2. Drink more water: It helps to sweat and dissipate heat. In addition, water has the function of regulating temperature, which can lower body temperature and replenish the water lost by the body.

3. Cold compress: This method is simple and easy. Apply a cold towel to the forehead. After the towel becomes hot, soak it in cold water and apply it again. For older children, using cold water bags or ice bags may be more effective.

4. Wipe the whole body with warm water or take a bath: Undress the child, rub the whole body with a towel in warm water (about 37°C) or take a bath. This can dilate the blood vessels in the skin and increase heat dissipation; in addition, when water evaporates from the body surface, some heat will also be lost.

5. Warm alcohol bath: Alcohol bath: Dilute 70% alcohol with 1/1 tap water. The water temperature after dilution should be about 37℃-40℃. Put it in a small bowl. When giving a sponge bath, close the doors and windows, dip gauze or a soft towel in the alcohol in the bowl, and wipe the child's palms, soles of feet, armpits, inner sides of upper arms, and thighs, and then wipe the limbs and back. Do not wipe directly with alcohol.

The small methods introduced above can effectively alleviate the problem of children's high fever, but before using these methods, parents must determine the specific cause of the child's illness so that they can provide correct treatment. If the high fever is caused by tracheitis or tonsillitis, the treatment methods used for high fever caused by the common cold will not be effective.