What should I do if my child has a cold and a fever of 38.2 degrees?

Many children suffering from fever make many parents worried. However, there are many reasons why children have a fever, such as catching a cold, eating the wrong food, and catching a cold. These are the main causes of children's fever. Parents must pay attention to the food combination of their children in daily life, and not let their children be picky about food. They must cover their children with quilts and close the doors and windows when they go to bed at night. Below is some information that the editor has collected, let’s take a look.

Traditional Chinese medicine treatment for children's colds

(1) Common cold: Traditional Chinese medicine calls upper respiratory tract infection "cold", believing that the disease occurs on the surface of the body and needs to be dispelled from the body by using antipyretic methods.

It can be divided into two types: wind-cold cold and wind-heat cold. However, since the symptoms are very different, they need to be distinguished and treated differently. For the wind-cold type, use pungent and warm herbs to relieve the symptoms; for the wind-heat type, use pungent and cool herbs to relieve the symptoms if the heat on the surface is severe, and use heat-clearing and detoxifying herbs if the heat inside is severe.

1) Wind-cold cold: This type is more common in older children in the early stages of a cold, with symptoms such as chills and fever, no sweating, clear nasal discharge, headache and body pain, cough with sputum, pale red tongue, thin white tongue coating, and a floating and tight pulse.

Prescription example: 9g of raw stonewort, 9g of chrysanthemum, 6g of sophora flavescens, 9g of patchouli, 9g of forsythia, and 3g of schizonepeta spicate.

2) Wind-heat cold: This type is more common in infants and young children, with severe fever, or fever that does not subside despite sweating, nasal congestion and runny yellow nasal discharge, red face and throat, or cough with sputum, slightly red tip of the tongue, thin white or yellow and white tongue coating, and floating or slippery pulse.

Prescription example 1 (suitable for those with severe superficial heat): Flos Lonicerae 9g, Fructus Forsythiae 9g, Root of Isatis 9g, Gypsum 15g, Peppermint 6g, Fructus Arctii 9g.

Prescription example 2 (suitable for those with severe internal heat): Flos Lonicerae 9g, Fructus Forsythiae 9g, Root of Isatis 9g, Gypsum 15g, Indigo Naturalis 3g, Flos Chrysanthemi 9g, Fructus Polygoni Multiflori 9g, Radix Rehmanniae 9g, Cortex Lycii 9g.

When a child has a fever, parents must take it seriously, help him reduce the temperature quickly, and pay more attention to his health in normal times. Usually, give him more fresh fruits and vegetables and less sweets. In addition, children should be bathed and washed frequently, because bacteria on their hands can make them sick more easily. Don't be too nervous if your child has a fever, stay calm.