Can children soak their feet when they have a fever?

It is normal for children to have poor body resistance and be prone to fever. However, some children are very young and are definitely unwilling to take medicine to reduce fever when they have fever symptoms. The medicine itself may also be harmful to the child's body. Therefore, when a child has a fever, people are generally willing to use physical methods to reduce the fever. So, can children soak their feet when they have a fever? Let’s take a look below.

Ginger contains gingerol, which can stimulate blood circulation and induce sweating, and can promote the excretion of sweat. In theory, it can indeed reduce fever. Fever itself is a process in which the body's immune system raises body temperature to eliminate cold viruses. We should pay attention to body temperature when we have a fever. When the temperature is too high and cannot be controlled, we need to seek medical attention in time. However, soaking your feet in ginger can artificially raise your body temperature, which may make it impossible to accurately judge the changes in body temperature during a fever. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not need to use ginger water to soak your feet to reduce fever. Other physical cooling methods can be used. Newborns and young babies should not use ginger foot soaking to reduce fever.

It is generally not recommended to soak the baby's feet in warm water when the baby has a fever

The main consideration is the baby's age. If the baby is a few months old, it is not suitable to use ginger to soak feet to reduce fever, because ginger is very irritating and will irritate the skin on the soles of the feet. At the same time, it is also a Chinese medicinal material and is not suitable for infants and young children. If the child is a few years older, you can use ginger to soak feet, but it is still recommended to use warm water to soak feet.

When a child has a fever and soaks his feet, he should see if his hands and feet are cold.

Many parents judge whether their children have a fever by touching their foreheads. However, when a baby has a fever, the body and forehead will often be hot, but the hands and feet will still be cold. Therefore, when soaking the baby's feet in warm water, you should first feel whether the baby's hands and feet are cold. If they are, you can soak the feet in warm water, but do not take a bath in warm water to avoid dissipating heat too quickly, which may cause chills and purple skin.

It is not recommended to soak your feet with ginger for wind-heat cold and fever

Patients with wind-heat cold have heat in their bodies, and ginger is also warm in nature. As Chinese medicine says, "heat needs to be cooled", which means that fever should be treated with cold methods. Therefore, you should never use ginger to soak your feet for wind-heat cold, as it will more easily aggravate the symptoms of wind-heat cold.

Furthermore, many people cannot tell whether their fever is caused by wind-cold, wind-heat, or a viral cold. These colds may cause fever, but soaking feet in ginger does not work for all colds and fevers, so soaking feet in ginger is not recommended.