Is it better to take medicine or physics about children's fever?

There is a popular saying that a baby's cold and fever is a process to improve the body's immunity, but if your child has a fever, it will have serious consequences if you don't handle it properly. Today, I will sort out several common physical cooling methods for everyone, and every mother should learn them.

First, cold compress the head.

Applicable to: the whole body is hot, and the body temperature is not too high.

Specific methods: Wet the towel with cold water and apply it to the child's forehead, and change it every 5 ~ 10 minutes. Cold compress on the head has little effect on cooling the body, mainly to make people more awake and relieve discomfort, so drink more warm water.

Second, warm water towel, wipe your forehead.

Suitable for: cooling children with high fever.

Specific methods: warm water towel, wipe the forehead. In fact, it also uses water evaporation to cool down. The reason why we don't use cold water is that we are afraid that high temperature and fever will cause discomfort by stimulating our heads with cold water.

Extra attention: Don't use warm water to cool children with fever.

Third, alcohol wiping.

Suitable for: children with high fever.

Specific methods: Soak white wine in a small towel and wipe the neck, limbs, back, palms and soles of the feet of children with fever. If the fever is severe, you can also wipe the armpit, elbow, groin and other blood-rich parts.

Note: measles and other rash fever can not be wiped with alcohol.

Fourth, cold saline enema

Suitable for: cooling children with high fever.

Specific method: remove 200-300ml of normal saline at 4-6℃. Inject the prepared saline with a syringe, and then clamp the child's anus 10 minute to prevent the saline from escaping.

Enema has obvious cooling effect, but it is not suitable for home operation. It is recommended to find a hospital nurse for surgery.

V. Use of antipyretic stickers

Suitable for: cooling children with general fever.

Antipyretic paste is a family standing cooling product. When a child has a fever, stick a piece on his forehead or other large blood vessels to achieve the effect of physical cooling. Some natural medicines such as mint and borneol contained in antipyretic paste also have a certain cooling effect.

Specific methods: tear the packaging bag along the gap, take out the patch, uncover the transparent film, and directly apply the gel surface to the forehead or temple, or the cervical Dazhui point. 65438+ 0-3 times a day, each paste can be used continuously for 8 hours. After using the antipyretic patch, if the temperature is still above 38.5℃, you should go to the hospital in time. Don't touch hair, eyebrows, wounds, abnormal parts of eyes and skin when sticking.

Here are three ways to find a baby's fever.

Touch: Always touch the baby's small hands and the back of the neck to know whether the baby's temperature is normal, and more importantly, whether the baby's clothes are suitable. Wearing too much or too little is not good for your baby's health and comfort. Know your baby's normal body temperature. Once your baby has a fever, you can "touch" it immediately. If you feel that your baby's temperature is abnormal, you can touch your baby's forehead. If you obviously feel the baby's forehead is hot, then the baby is likely to have a fever.

Look: If the baby's face is flushed, his lips are hot, he is crying, or he has no appetite, the baby is probably hot.

Test: families with babies must have thermometers at home! It is the most accurate to measure body temperature with a thermometer. It can measure the baby's armpit or neck (normal temperature is 36℃ ~ 37℃), so as to know the baby's accurate temperature and fever. Preschool babies had better not use oral thermometer to measure their body temperature to avoid accidents.

You should seek medical advice in time in the following situations:

1 and infants under 4 months have fever.

2. Fever and stiff leadership.

3, high fever above 38.5℃, family therapy is useless.

4. The fever lasts for more than 2 days.

In addition, children under 6 years old may have convulsions (convulsions) if their oral temperature exceeds 38.8℃.

The above is a summary of the methods of physical cooling. Of course, the most important thing is to give the baby warm water to deal with the fever. The most effective physical cooling method is drinking water. Be careful that drinking water is not suitable for drinking cold water. Warm water with a certain temperature is the most suitable. First, drink water to replenish body fluids. When the specific heat of water is high and the human body is full of water, it has a certain effect on cooling. The second is to promote sweating, which can help the body to expel heat.