Why do children have cold hands and feet?

We know that young children's bodies are relatively fragile, so we need to take good care of them at this time. When there is any abnormality in their bodies, we should solve it immediately. For example, what should we do when a child has a fever and cold hands and feet? Next, I will introduce some specific practices to you.

1. Treat the primary disease. Fever is a manifestation of the disease, not an independent disease. Therefore, when treating children's fever, we should not simply focus on reducing the fever, but should actively look for the cause of the fever and treat the primary disease.

2. Antipyretic treatment: Children with persistent high fever need appropriate cooling measures to avoid brain cell damage and adverse effects caused by excessively high body temperature. It is especially necessary to take cooling measures in a timely manner for children with a history of febrile convulsions and children with high fever and extreme irritability. The following situations in children with fever require vigilance or emergency treatment: febrile convulsions; fever in infants under 3 months old; fever lasting more than 5 days; fever > 40°C and cannot be effectively reduced within 2 hours by acetaminophen or ibuprofen; obvious changes in children's behavior: such as not liking to play, loss of appetite, rarely talking, indifference to surrounding things or sudden special behavior that has never appeared before; less urine, indicating dehydration, such as infants wet < 3 diapers a day, or older children have not urinated for 8 to 12 hours.

3. Artificial hibernation therapy is a cooling method that combines drugs (chlorpromazine and promethazine mixed in equal amounts) and physical cooling. Artificial hibernation has a powerful protective inhibitory effect on the central nervous system, which can make the body fall asleep, lower the temperature, reduce the metabolic rate and oxygen consumption. It is mainly suitable for patients with persistent high fever or convulsions caused by severe infection, such as toxic bacterial dysentery, viral encephalitis, purulent meningitis, etc.

In fact, no matter what method we use, the most important point is to make sure that young children can accept it. After all, their physical condition is different from that of adults. Sometimes we ignore this point and lead to the worsening of the situation, so the next time you encounter such a thing, you must pay attention.