What to do if a 2-year-old child has a high fever and convulsions

Colds and fevers are common diseases among children, and parents usually use physical cooling methods to lower their children's body temperature. However, when a child has a high fever and convulsions, parents need to take emergency measures. A child's fever and convulsions is an emergency. If not handled properly, it can cause great harm to the child's growth. So what should you do if a 2-year-old child has a high fever and convulsions? Let’s take a look together!

The symptoms of convulsions in children are relatively clear, and most of them are based on fever: temporary coma, stiff neck or limp convulsions, eyes looking up, clenched jaws, and even foaming at the mouth, incontinence, etc. The longer the convulsion lasts, the greater the damage to the brain. The intellectual development of children is greatly affected. In some cases, improper treatment of convulsions may lead to suffocation caused by phlegm blocking the trachea, which can be life-threatening.

1. Stay calm, keep quiet, and avoid giving your child any unnecessary stimulation.

2. Keep the airways open. Lay the child flat with his head tilted to one side, and clean the secretions and vomit in the mouth promptly to prevent them from being inhaled into the trachea and causing suffocation or aspiration pneumonia.

3. When convulsions are severe and cyanosis occurs, oxygen should be given immediately to reduce hypoxic brain damage.

4. When anticonvulsant drugs are not available, you can press the Ren Zhong and Hegu points. Be careful not to use too much force to avoid damaging the skin and causing unnecessary pain to the child.

5. Complex convulsions should be sent to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment.

After the first febrile seizure, about 40% of children will have a recurrence.

(1) Avoid fever factors as much as possible. Carry out more outdoor activities in daily life to help children gradually adapt to the changes in temperature in the external environment. But you should also pay attention to changes in temperature and add or remove clothes in time to prevent colds.

(2) Pay attention to a reasonable diet to enhance children’s physical fitness.

(3) Once a fever occurs, the body temperature should be controlled below 38°C as quickly as possible. First, take antipyretics and immediately perform physical cooling, use 25% to 50% alcohol for bathing. Be careful when using alcohol for bathing, and do not wipe the back of the neck, chest, feet, neck, armpits, groin and other places with large blood vessels. Medical cooling is slower in effect than physical cooling.

The above content introduces in great detail the emergency response measures that parents should take after their 2-year-old child has a high fever and convulsions. I hope these can help more parents. When a child has a high fever and convulsions, parents should not panic. They should promptly provide rescue treatment to the child using the correct method and should not shake the child at will.