How to treat a five-year-old child with a fever

Cold is a very distressing disease, especially when a five-year-old child has a fever and a cold, it is even more worrying. Children with a cold are not like adults. Adults know where they are uncomfortable and what to do, but children are different. In addition to not giving children medicine casually, we must always pay attention to the child's changes in temperature. We know to put on more clothes when we are cold, but children are different. They need reminders, so it is much more troublesome to treat a five-year-old child with a fever and a cold.

1. Definition of fever

The regulated increase in body temperature (more than 0.5°C) caused by the upward shift of the body temperature set point due to the action of pyrogens is called fever. Normal body temperature is slightly different for each person and is affected by many factors (time of day, season, environment, menstruation, etc.). Therefore, to determine whether you have a fever, it is best to compare your body temperature with your usual body temperature under the same conditions. If you do not know your original body temperature, an axillary temperature (tested for 10 minutes) exceeding 37.4℃ can be considered a fever.

2. Causes of Fever

There are many diseases that cause fever, which can be divided into two categories according to the different causes. The first category is infectious diseases, which rank first among fevers to be investigated, including infectious diseases, systemic or focal infections caused by various common pathogens. The most common infectious fever is caused by bacteria, followed by viruses, etc. The second category is non-infectious diseases, blood diseases and malignant tumors such as leukemia, malignant histiocytosis, malignant lymphoma, colon cancer, primary hepatocellular carcinoma, etc. Allergic diseases such as drug fever and rheumatic fever. Connective tissue diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SIE), dermatomyositis, polyarteritis nodosa, mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), etc. Others include hyperthyroidism and thyroid crisis. Severe dehydration or bleeding, heat stroke, heat stroke, fractures, extensive burns, cerebral hemorrhage, visceral vascular infarction, tissue necrosis, etc.

3. How to relieve fever

Drink plenty of water, especially water that contains minerals. Avoid caffeine and alcohol, and regularly ask your doctor about your physical condition and how to improve your resistance to defend against epidemics. Free yourself from trouble during fever season. If you have a baby at home, it is understandable that you need cool air during the hot summer months, but if you have very young children or babies at home, it is recommended that you do not turn on the air conditioner. Because air conditioning will have a certain impact on children's growth. If you want to achieve a cooling effect but are afraid of causing harm to the baby, you might try opening all the windows and hanging wet towels on the windows that are most used for ventilation. This will help protect the baby from dust contamination. Healthy growth. In high temperature weather, the elderly and children are most vulnerable. The most important thing in this weather is to prevent the temperature inside the house from rising. It is best to keep the blinds open to prevent direct sunlight from entering the house. And that will also allow air to circulate. At night, when there is no sunlight, open the windows wide to allow plenty of cool air to enter the room and improve air circulation. This will prevent the elderly or children from suffering from heat stroke or fever. Many people love to sweat in summer. Drink plenty of water to replenish water to avoid the deficiency of various trace elements in the body.

In daily life, if a five-year-old child has a fever or a cold, mothers should not only take the child to the hospital for examination and treatment in time, but also actively adjust their daily diet and rest habits, do more aerobic exercise outdoors, go to bed early at night, don't stay up late, and it is best to soak your feet in hot water for half an hour before going to bed.