What to do if a two and a half year old baby catches a cold and has a fever

The baby's body resistance is very weak and the immunity is very low, so as a parent you must pay attention to adding or removing clothes for the baby. Once the baby is invaded by wind and cold, it is easy to cause a cold. In addition, babies are prone to fever after catching a cold. Then, for the sake of the baby's health, you can't use medicine casually, so what should you do if your two-and-a-half-year-old baby has a fever?

What should you do if your baby has a fever? How can you cool him down physically? In fact, most of the colds children catch nowadays are caused by wind and cold, which Chinese medicine believes is an exogenous fever. Parents can choose massage as a method of self-treatment and health care. The antipyretic effect of manual massage is more advantageous than the use of antipyretic and analgesic drugs.

After massage therapy, the child's body temperature can return to normal, and the factors causing the fever are also eliminated at the same time. In this case, the child's body temperature generally will not rise again in the short term. If after massage therapy, the child's body temperature returns to normal, or is lower than before, and the fever-causing factors are not eliminated, the child's temperature may rise again. At this time, if massage is used again, the body temperature can drop again for several hours. If the condition is serious, go to the hospital for treatment in time.

In addition, for a cold caused by wind and cold, you can take three slices of ginger, two sections of old green onion, and a little brown sugar, boil them into juice, and take it while warm instead of water. For wind-heat cold, take 3 grams of mulberry leaves, 5 grams of chrysanthemum, and a little rock sugar, boil them into juice, and take it while warm instead of water.

【Technique Selection】

Children with colds can be treated with massage using three techniques: pushing the Zanzhu, rubbing the Taiyang, and clearing the Tianheshui. For those who have a cold caused by wind and cold, push the three joints more; for those who have a cold caused by wind and heat, push the spine more. Among them, clearing Tianhe water can promote lung function and clear away heat; pushing Zanzhu and rubbing Taiyang can relieve wind and relieve exterior symptoms, and dispel external evil; for those with wind-cold, pushing Sanguan can induce sweating and relieve exterior symptoms, and dispel wind-cold; for those with wind-heat, pushing the spine can clear away heat and relieve exterior symptoms. 【Manual operation】 1. Clear Tianhe water

[Location] In the middle of the forearm, in a straight line from the midpoint of the wrist crease on the back of the palm to the elbow fossa.

[Operation] The child sits or lies on his back. The parents hold the child's four fingers with one hand, so that the child's palm and the palm side of the forearm face up. The parents put the ribbed surfaces of the index finger and middle finger of the other hand together, dip them in water, and push from the Laogong point in the palm through the midpoint of the transverse wrist line on the back of the palm to the elbow pit, in a single direction for about 100 to 200 times.

2. Push the bamboo

[Position] From the middle of the eyebrows to the front hairline in a straight line.

[Operation] The child sits or lies on his back, and the parent pushes straight up with his thumbs alternately from bottom to top for 30 to 50 times.

3. Rub the sun

[Location] The depression behind the eyebrow.

[Operation] The child sits or lies on his back, and the parent pushes the outer sides of his two thumbs straight from front to back for 30 to 50 times. Then use the tip of your middle finger to rub the point towards the ear, rubbing it 30 to 50 times.

4. Push three levels

[Location] The outer edge of the forearm, a straight line from the wrist crease to the elbow crease.

[Operation] The child sits or lies on his back. The parent holds the child's hand with one hand and uses the outer side of the thumb or the pads of the index and middle fingers of the other hand to push from the transverse line of the wrist to the elbow for 100 to 500 times.

5. Push the spine

[Location] On the posterior midline, in a straight line from the first thoracic vertebra to the end of the coccyx.

[Operation] Use the ribbed surface of the index and middle fingers to apply force, and push directly on the spinal acupoints from top to bottom for about 100 to 300 times.