Causes of fever and cough in 6-year-old children

I have a 6-year-old child at home. The weather is relatively cold, which causes the six-year-old child to have a fever and cough. I heard that antipyretics have certain side effects, so I dare not give them to the child casually. So I want to know if there are any better ways to reduce fever besides taking antipyretics. The methods should be simple and will not cause harm to the child, such as some physical methods of reducing fever. If you want to know about this, you can read the following with me. The article will introduce in detail the causes of children's fever and cough and what kind of treatment methods should be used for fever and cough. Please pick up the pen and paper in your hand, and let us learn together!

1. Reasons

Children will not cough for no reason. It is usually caused by catching a cold or having a fever. As long as parents deal with it in time according to the method I introduced earlier on "What to do if a child just catches a cold", it rarely develops into pneumonia. Therefore, timely dispelling the cold in the early stage of a child's cold is the key to avoiding coughing. If the child is already coughing, the key to preventing the cough from getting worse is to prevent the child from catching cold and not feeding the child cold food.

2. Symptoms

A severe cough is one that occurs regardless of day or night, which means that the child has both heat and cold in the body. In the past, I treated wind-heat coughs and wind-cold coughs separately. Later, I found that as long as I followed the method I introduced earlier on "What to do when a child has just caught a cold", using ginger and sugar water to dispel the cold, soaking the child's feet until they sweat, and giving the child plenty of warm water to eliminate internal heat, it would not only cure the cold quickly and make the cough almost impossible to occur, but it was also very effective in treating children's coughs after catching a cold. In addition, let your child drink plenty of warm boiled water. With drinking plenty of water and frequent urination, viruses and bacteria will be excreted from the body in a timely manner. They will naturally not stay in the respiratory tract and cause respiratory tract inflammation, and the cough will be cured without treatment.

Coughing is the stimulation of inflammation, so all doctors think of anti-inflammatory drugs. Drinking plenty of warm boiled water is the most cost-effective anti-inflammatory drug that will not cause new damage to the body.

3. Countermeasures

If the hands and feet are cold and the tongue is white, boil two slices of ginger, half a spoonful of brown sugar and three cloves of garlic together in water and give it to the child to drink twice a day. When the child's hands and feet begin to feel hot, give the child a cup of warm water every half an hour. If the child feels bloated after drinking too much water, let the child eat a few bites of salty side dishes, the bloating will be relieved immediately. Continue to let the child drink water, and parents will soon notice that as the child urinates more, the number of coughs decreases. Parents should still soak their children's feet in warm water at night until they sweat slightly, and let the children sleep more to recover their strength as soon as possible. The next day, touch the child's hands and feet again. If the hands and feet are still cold, continue to treat it as above. If the child's hands and feet are already warm, just drink ginger and brown sugar water once to consolidate the condition. Make sure the child drinks more warm boiled water and has a light diet. Give the child more broth and chicken soup, and avoid eating fish, shrimp, yam, and peppers. Gradually, the child will stop coughing. Alternatively, parents can make sesame oil and ginger fried eggs for their children before they go to bed at night. The method is as follows: put a small spoonful of sesame oil into a wok, add the ginger after the oil is hot, fry it in the oil for a while, then pour in an egg and stir well, feed it to the child while it is hot before the child goes to bed. Be careful not to scald the child. If you insist on eating it for a few days, the child's cough caused by cold will be significantly improved.

4. Effects after taking the medicine

If the child's hands and feet do not become cold when coughing, but his face becomes red, his throat is swollen and sore, his urine is yellow and has a strong odor, and his eyes are red, parents should give the child plenty of light salt water to drink. This will not only eliminate internal heat but also relieve cough. At the same time, you can also boil pear water for your child to drink to moisten the lungs. Also, let your child rest early and eat a light diet, and the child's condition will soon be under control. Some children only cough every morning, some children cough just after falling asleep or wake up with coughing at night. These all indicate that the child has cold in the body and is weak.

The above is all about the fever and cough of a 6-year-old child. As a mother, have you learned some methods to treat your child’s fever and cough through this article? If you want to know more, you might as well search for some relevant knowledge on the Internet. The content on the Internet is quite rich. As long as you are willing to learn, I suggest that every mother at least learn some basic medical knowledge, so that when any situation arises, you will know how to deal with it. You must know that the mother’s ignorance represents the mother’s incompetence. If the baby does not get good care from the mother during the illness, the situation will become more serious.