Does the baby's hot hands mean he has a fever?

The baby's every move concerns the parents, especially when the baby's body shows abnormalities. Babies are still relatively new and not familiar with the external environment, so they are very susceptible to disease. Moreover, babies cannot speak, and if they are feeling unwell they can only express it through their bodies, which requires parents to pay enough attention to their babies. Some parents have found that their babies’ palms have hotness. So, does the baby's hot hands mean he has a fever?

Children usually have hot palms and soles of their feet, which means they have food in their stomach and poor digestion. You can take some medicine to help digest food and eliminate accumulation. Drink plenty of water and don't keep your child too hot. Check if the small red spots on your body are bleeding spots. If so, you must go to the hospital. If it's small red spots it could be heat rash. Take a shower regularly, keep the air circulating, and sweat less.

Western medicine has not yet given a good explanation for this problem, so some doctors may say that this is not a disease, but traditional Chinese medicine has a detailed explanation for this.

It is very rare for the palms and soles to be hot without other symptoms. In the vast majority of cases, hot palms and soles are accompanied by other symptoms that are not noticed or are considered normal.

Traditional Chinese medicine divides fever in the palms and soles into two types: malnutrition, spleen deficiency, and blood deficiency and yin deficiency.

1. Malnutrition and spleen deficiency, fever in the palms and soles

One of the reasons is improper diet, that is, some people eat without restraint, eat at irregular times, and often eat snacks. In the long run, it can damage the spleen and stomach functions, cause abnormal metabolism, and form stagnation. With prolonged stagnation, the essence of water and grain cannot be absorbed, forming malnutrition and fever.

The second is that after suffering from other diseases, such as vomiting, diarrhea, dysentery, parasitic diseases, etc., if they are not treated properly for a long time, they will damage the qi and blood, leading to malnutrition and the formation of malnutrition and fever. Common symptoms in this area include hot palms and soles, sallow and thin face, dry hair, bloated abdomen, poor appetite, frequent ingestion of foreign objects, restless sleep at night, loose stools, undigested food, and yellow and turbid urine like rice water.

2. Blood deficiency and Yin deficiency, fever in hands and feet

The reasons are mostly due to weak constitution, or lack of conditioning after a serious illness or fever, resulting in damage to yin and blood, and failure to restore vital energy. This part is often manifested as hot palms and soles, weight loss, mental depression, cough with little sputum, dizziness and tinnitus, dry mouth and tongue, hot flashes in the afternoon, red cheeks and night sweats, frequent urination, and constipation.

Fever in the palms and soles is most common due to malnutrition and spleen deficiency, and most of the cases occur in infants under 3 years old.

What should I do if my baby's palms are hot?

The baby's palms are hot, which is generally caused by the following reasons:

1. Children's metabolism is vigorous, blood circulation is accelerated, and the body produces more heat that needs to be dissipated through the body surface. The child may feel that his body temperature and palm temperature are high. It is more obvious when there is a fever and there is no other discomfort. It may be a normal physiological phenomenon.

2. If the child behaves like this when he is not active, you should check if he is wearing too many clothes. If there is nothing wrong with the clothes your child is wearing, you should take your child's temperature to make sure it is normal. If the body temperature is normal, there is no problem. You should make sure to give your child enough water and check whether he is suffering from calcium deficiency.

3. The baby has symptoms of getting angry, such as hot palms and yellow urine, which are caused by excessive internal heat.

4. The baby has food accumulation and the baby's stomach is congenitally insufficient. In order to supplement the nutrition for the child, some parents always feed the child some high-fat, high-protein, high-calorie food that is difficult to digest, which further increases the burden on the spleen and stomach, causing food stagnation and heat accumulation over time, resulting in hot hands and feet, fever in the abdomen, and bloating. Such children are often accompanied by symptoms such as loss of appetite, dry stools, red tongue coating, abnormal taste, but the body temperature is generally normal.

What should I do if my baby's palms are hot due to internal heat?

Be sure to let your child drink more water, eat more fruit and vegetable soup, and eat some honeysuckle dew and

Mung bean soup, etc., can speed up the excretion of metabolic products from the body through urine, and eat less fried, dry and other foods that are easy to cause inflammation.

Maintain the humidity and temperature in the house and don't let it be too hot. Babies are active and sweat a lot, and they will easily get irritated if they don't replenish water in time.

Don't overdress your baby. Because children are in the process of growth and development, their metabolism is particularly active, and children like to exercise. If they wear too much, they will sweat easily. When they sweat, their pores will open, and if they encounter cold wind, they will easily catch a cold. If the baby wears less, he will feel a little cold, and the pores all over his body will shrink and close, so he will not sweat easily after exercise. Since the pores are in a tightly closed state, it is difficult for cold wind to invade the body and the damage to the body is not too great.

What should I do if my baby's palms are hot due to food accumulation?

Parents must pay attention to let their children eat a balanced diet, eat less puffed foods, eat more fresh fruits, seasonal vegetables, crude fiber foods, such as soy products, white fungus, black fungus, millet, barley, lentils, cucumbers, etc. Fruits can be selected from pears, bananas, dates, kiwis, etc. The above-mentioned foods are all sweet and cold, sweet and cool, or sweet and neutral. Sweet and sour can transform yin, and cold and cool can cure heat, which can replenish yin and remove internal heat.

If the child also has bad breath, teeth grinding at night, drooling, restless sleep, etc., parents should give digestive medicine according to the situation, such as Simo Decoction, Jianwei Xiaoshi Tablets, etc.; once the child has fever, diarrhea, anorexia, etc., he should go to the hospital in time to avoid delays.