What should I do if my child has a fever?

We all know that children have poor physical fitness and weak resistance, so they are prone to catching colds and fevers. In fact, parents, if your children have a cold or fever, don't worry too much and don't give them medicine casually. Today, I will teach you some home remedies for treating children’s fever. You can take a look.

Common physical cooling methods used in the home generally include alcohol bath, ice pillow cooling or warm water bath. So, which method is most suitable for babies?

Alcohol rub bath was a common method used to reduce fever in the past, but it is not recommended to use this method for babies now. Wiping the baby's body with alcohol will cause the child's skin to expand and contract rapidly, which is very irritating to the baby. It may also cause alcohol poisoning in the baby.

Using an ice pillow or ice compress on the forehead to reduce fever is a common method used by many parents. However, this method is not suitable for children under six months old, because young babies are easily affected by external temperature. Using an ice pillow will cause the temperature to drop too quickly, making it difficult for the baby to adapt. In addition, when a baby has a fever, the temperature of the whole body rises. Local ice compresses can only have a local cooling effect. It is better to wipe the baby's whole body with warm water.

Warm water bath means using a warm water towel at about 37°C to wipe the child's limbs, chest and back.

Wear more or less? When the baby has a fever, there is often a question that makes parents hesitant: should they wear more clothes to prevent shivering, or take off clothes to help dissipate heat? In fact, adding or removing clothes should be coordinated with the progress of the fever. When the set temperature is raised and the body temperature begins to rise, the child will feel cold. At this time, a long-sleeved, breathable, thin shirt should be added, and antipyretics can be given. Half an hour after taking the medicine, the effect of the medicine begins to take effect, the set temperature is lowered, the body begins to dissipate heat, and the child will sweat and feel hot. At this time, you should reduce clothing or use warm water baths to help reduce fever.

Children should not eat too many eggs when they have a fever. After a child has a fever, he or she usually has a poor appetite. At this time, he or she should eat liquid, nutritious, light, and easily digestible food, such as milk, lotus root powder, and vegetable soup with less oil. When the body temperature drops and appetite improves, you can change to semi-liquid food, such as minced meat and vegetable porridge, noodles, soft rice with some easily digestible dishes. In addition, drink more warm water to increase the moisture in the body's tissues, which has a stabilizing effect on body temperature and can prevent the body temperature from rising rapidly again. When a child has a fever, many parents think that they should supplement their nutrition, so they feed their children a lot of protein-rich eggs. In fact, this not only fails to lower the body temperature, but increases the heat in the body, causing the baby's body temperature to rise, which is not conducive to the child's early recovery.

The above are some home remedies for dealing with children’s fever that I want to introduce to you today. I hope my sharing will be helpful to you. The editor reminds all parents that you should never give your children medicine when they have a fever, because children have relatively poor resistance and medicines may cause a greater burden on their bodies.