What should I do if my child has a fever and is crying?

Children are weaker and cannot take care of themselves, so they can easily get headaches or fevers. If a child has a fever, parents will be at a loss as to what to do. If the child complains of being cold, parents will rush to add clothes for the child and cover him with thicker quilts at night. As parents, we must adopt scientific and reasonable methods to help children overcome the disease. Let me introduce to you what to do if your child has a fever and is feeling cold.

1. Why are the baby's hands and feet cold when his body is hot?

Having a fever but 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. 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.

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. If the ambient temperature is low, the baby's hands and feet will be cold because their hands are exposed to the outside for a long time.

2. Warning: Do not cover your baby's hands and feet with sweat if he has a fever and they 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.

Well, now that the editor has introduced to us some methods of what to do when a child has a fever and feels cold, if our parents and friends encounter such a problem in the future, just follow the editor’s methods and believe that the child’s illness will be cured soon. Don't take unscientific methods to take care of your children. Only correct handling can allow your children to grow up healthy and happy.