What to do if your child has measles

The physical health of children is what parents care about most. If there is a problem with the child's body, parents will definitely be very worried and don't know how to deal with it. Therefore, we recommend that parents pay attention to protecting their children's health in daily life. If you find that the child has an abnormality in the body, you must pay attention to it. In the following article, we will introduce what to do if a child has measles.

The first step is to take the child’s temperature to confirm whether the child has a fever and carefully recall whether the child has had a fever in the past few days (but children are precious nowadays and fever should have been discovered long ago). If the rash starts on the 3rd or 4th day of fever, then measles should be considered.

The second step is to carefully observe whether the child has coughing or sneezing.

The third step is to observe whether the child’s eyes are watery, bloodshot, or afraid of light. This is also a symptom of measles. sneeze. This is also a symptom of measles.

The fourth step is to ask the child to open his mouth and use a tongue depressor to observe whether there are many small grayish-white dots on the mucosa next to the lower molar (the sixth tooth in the lower alveolar). These small dots are called "measles mucosal spots" in medicine. When you see this, you can basically be sure that it is measles.

The fifth step is to observe the order of rash development, and see whether the rash grows from behind the ears to the forehead, then to the face and neck, then to the body and limbs, and finally to the palms and soles of the feet. This is also a symptom of measles.

Step 6. The order in which the rash disappears is the same as the order in which it appeared. After the rash subsides, some scaling or pigmentation may remain.

In the above article, we introduced something that parents are very concerned about, that is, the physical health of their children. We know that if there is a problem with the child's body, it must be treated in time. The above article gives us a detailed introduction on what to do if a child has measles.