Physical cooling methods for infants with fever

Every child will encounter some health problems on the road to growth, among which colds and fevers are relatively common diseases. Once a child shows symptoms of fever, parents must pay great attention. If the temperature is not too high, you can choose physical cooling. This can avoid the side effects of drugs on the baby, and can completely make the baby's fever temperature return to normal. If you want to get effective cooling, you must master the method. Let's learn about the physical cooling method for infant fever.

Physical cooling methods for infants with fever

Method 1: Warm and wet compress

Using warm water can also help dissipate heat, and it is very simple to operate

Specific approach

Prepare warm water, the hot water temperature should be around 30℃.

Undress your baby, wet a towel, and rub your baby's body up and down with the warm towel.

Change towels every ten minutes.

Method 2: Ice compress

Heat is mainly transferred through the exchange of heat between ice placed in large blood vessels throughout the body and the flowing blood. At the same time, it can reduce the oxygen consumption of brain cells, delay brain cell damage, and is beneficial to the body's microcirculation.

Specific approach

Put homemade ice cubes just taken out of the refrigerator into a plastic bag, tie it tightly, put it in 2-3 layers to prevent leakage, and then wrap it with a towel.

Apply ice packs to the back of the head, forehead, armpits, neck, groin and other places where large blood vessels pass.

Change it every minute until the high fever drops.

The ice bag needs to be wrapped with a layer of cloth to prevent local skin frostbite. If the baby shivers, feels cold, turns blue in the face, or has purple skin in some areas, stop using the product immediately.

Boy babies should be especially careful to avoid contacting the scrotum area with the ice pack.

Using the prepared ice bag as an ice pillow has a good cooling effect.

Method 3: Use a cooling patch

Cooling patches, which are popular in Europe and the United States, have now become a common cooling product in Chinese families. When a child has a fever, just stick one on the forehead or other areas where large blood vessels run to achieve the effect of physical cooling. The reason why the cooling patch can play a cooling effect is mainly because it contains high-molecular hydrogel, which uses physical principles to concentrate heat into the gelatinous substance, and then takes away the heat through water vaporization, thereby assisting in local cooling to reduce fever. In addition, some natural medicines contained in cooling patches, such as mint and borneol, also have a certain cooling effect.

Specific approach

Tear open the packaging bag along the notch, take out the patch, peel off the transparent film, and apply the gel surface directly to the forehead or temple, or to the Dazhui point on the neck.

1-3 times a day, each patch can be used continuously for 8 hours.

After using the cooling patch, if the body temperature remains above 38.5℃ and does not drop, you should go to the hospital for treatment in time.

When applying the mask, avoid contact with hair, eyebrows, wounds, eyes or other abnormal skin areas.

Method 4: Alcohol bath

Alcohol can dilate blood vessels and take away a lot of heat when it evaporates. If your baby has a fever, you can use alcohol bath to help reduce the fever. This method cools down quickly, and the body temperature will generally drop quickly.

Specific approach

Take one part of 95% alcohol bought from the pharmacy, add two parts of warm water, stir evenly and set aside; if it is 75% alcohol, add the same amount of warm water as the alcohol. If you don't have alcohol on hand, you can also use 60° white wine instead. When using white wine, you can mix one part of white wine with 2/3 parts of water, or you can add ice cubes to increase the cooling effect.

Use gauze or a small towel to wet it and wipe the baby's body, generally where there are more blood vessels, such as the neck, armpits, thighs, etc. These areas have fast blood circulation, shallow blood vessels, and are easy to dissipate heat.

Apply in a certain order, from top to bottom, from left to right, using a patting method until the skin turns slightly red. Pay attention to keeping the rubbed body parts warm. Move quickly, 5-10 minutes each time.

When wiping, avoid the baby's head, face, abdomen, soles of the feet, and heart area in front of the chest to avoid causing adverse reactions.

Precautions

In addition to bacterial or viral infections, environmental factors are also one of the causes of fever symptoms. Ambient temperature that is too high, heatstroke, or wearing too many clothes or wrapping yourself too tightly may all cause fever. Therefore, the first thing to do when your baby has a fever is to lower the ambient temperature. A cool environment helps to dissipate heat. Do not close the doors and windows tightly and keep the indoor air circulating. If it is summer, you can also use a fan to speed up air circulation, but do not let the fan blow towards the baby.

When a baby has a fever, the skin has the largest surface area and the best heat dissipation effect. Therefore, do not wear too many clothes when the baby has a fever. For smaller babies, you can open their swaddles or wrapped blankets so that a lot of body heat can be discharged through the loose and cool surface, and the body temperature can be easily lowered. Some newborns may suffer from dehydration fever if they are overdressed. In this case, just help the child take off some clothes and let him drink more water, and the child's body temperature will return to normal.

Another point is that when the baby has a fever, many parents like to cover the baby tightly with a quilt to help the child reduce the fever. In fact, when the child has a fever, it is best to dress the child less to facilitate the child's breathing.

The above is an introduction to the physical cooling methods for babies with fever. After understanding it, I hope it can bring some help to many parents, especially to master more common sense of life, which will be more handy in the process of taking care of the baby. In fact, baby fever is a relatively common phenomenon. After physical cooling of the baby, you must take the baby to the hospital in time for examination and treatment of the cause of the fever, and then prescribe the right medicine. In addition, you must let the baby drink more boiled water.