What should I do if my child has a fever due to cold?

The weather is getting colder and colder. Children's bodies are weak and they don't know how to take care of themselves, so they are particularly prone to catching colds and fevers. When the weather gets colder, be sure to add more clothes to your children at all times to prevent them from catching a cold or fever. What should we do if the child has a fever due to the cold? If the incorrect care method is used, the fever will become more and more serious, so let’s take a look at the correct care methods!

1. Why are the baby's hands and feet cold when his body is feverish? Having a fever but having cold hands and feet is a phenomenon of false cold and true 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. On the other hand, ambient temperature is also one of the reasons why babies have cold hands and feet. Because the baby's central nervous system is not yet fully developed, the ability to regulate body temperature is imperfect.

2. Be alert: Do not cover your baby with sweat if he has a fever and his hands and feet are cold. As soon as the baby has a fever, parents will cover the baby tightly, dressing him in "three layers inside and three layers outside", making him look like a steamed dumpling. Some mothers say that their children are very afraid of cold when they have a fever. Some say that wearing thicker clothes is to cover up sweat, and the child’s fever will go away once he sweats.

Children's sweat glands are underdeveloped, so it is not easy to achieve the purpose of "sweating" by "covering up the sweat". For children, the more they are covered, the higher their body temperature will be, which can easily cause "heat syndrome" (that is, children will have a series of symptoms such as high fever, pale complexion, poor reaction, and difficulty breathing due to covering too tightly), and it can also easily induce high fever convulsions.

After reading the above introduction, everyone knows what to do if your child has a fever due to the cold. In the cold winter, when the baby says he is very cold, you must make sure to dress him in more clothes. It’s okay if he is a little warm, but he must not be frozen. A fever caused by freezing is different from a normal fever, and there are different ways of care. I hope everyone can learn to distinguish and adopt them.