What if you have a fever?

Cold compress; Warm water bath; Alcohol bath; Cold water enema; Electric fan blowing; The environment is getting cold.

The following are specific practices:

1. cold compress: it is a cold method to reduce the body temperature of the whole body or a certain part. Generally, cold compress on the head is the most commonly used. A hand-sized pocket is made of rubber blanket and plastic film and filled with well water or tiny ice cubes. Small bags are placed on the patient's forehead, neck blood vessels, armpits and thigh roots.

At the beginning of cold compress, local blood vessels contract, then blood vessels expand, and heat can be dissipated through conduction, which can achieve the purpose of cooling down. If possible, sew a hat-shaped ice pack and put well water or ice cubes on the patient's head. It can also be made into an ice pillow and placed on the patient's head and neck like a pillow, which can also play a role in cooling down.

When the ice cap and pillow can't be made, the well water can be soaked and squeezed dry with a towel instead of an ice pack for cold compress. Pay attention to the local skin not to be frostbitten when ice is applied.

2. Warm water bath: soak the towel with warm water of 32℃~ 36℃ and wipe the whole body skin, so that the blood vessels of the skin expand and the blood flow increases, and the heat in the body is dissipated through conduction to achieve the purpose of heat dissipation.

After wiping the whole body, you can wait for a while, and then wipe it again after the moisture on the skin evaporates until the body temperature drops significantly. Be sure to dry the moisture on your skin after wiping, and then cover it with a thin quilt to prevent catching cold.

3. Alcohol bath: 25% ~ 50% alcohol can be used as bath liquid. When there is no alcohol, you can take a bath with white wine mixed with semi-cold boiling water. Because alcohol volatilizes quickly, it can quickly take away the heat on the skin and achieve the purpose of cooling down.

Wipe the patient's neck, armpit, groin, chest, limbs and other places with a towel when taking a bath, so as to dilate skin blood vessels and accelerate heat dissipation. If the alcohol concentration is too high and volatilizes too fast, the skin blood vessels will contract, which will affect the heat dissipation. The preparation method of alcohol is as follows: 95% alcohol 100 ml and 200 ml water.

When taking an alcohol bath, you should cover the patient with a quilt. About half an hour after taking a bath, you should measure it with an anal measuring instrument. If your temperature doesn't drop, you should be sent to the hospital for further treatment.

4. Cold water enema: For patients with body temperature as high as 40℃, 4℃ normal saline 100- 150 ml enema can also reduce the temperature.

5. Electric fan blowing: Electric fan blowing can accelerate the heat dissipation of the body, but the wind direction can't be aimed at a certain part of the patient, otherwise it will catch cold locally, and it can be blown with a slanting wind or with a shaking head electric fan. The wind should not be too strong and the time should not be too long, which is suitable for patients with good health and high body temperature. ?

6. Environmental cooling: In the hot season, when doing physical cooling, we should also cool the environment, such as splashing cold water on the ground, mopping the ground with cold water, and strengthening.

Extended data:

Fever, also known as fever, refers to the situation that pyrogen directly acts on the thermoregulatory center, and the thermoregulatory center is dysfunctional, or the body temperature rises beyond the normal range due to excessive heat production and reduced heat dissipation caused by various reasons.

Everyone's normal body temperature is slightly different, influenced by time, season, environment, menstruation and other factors.

It is generally believed that when the oral temperature is higher than 37.5℃, the axillary temperature is higher than 37℃, or the temperature difference between day and night is above 65438 0℃, it is a fever. Fever is the most common clinical symptom and an important clinical manifestation in the process of disease progression, which can be seen in many infectious and non-infectious diseases.

However, sometimes the increase in body temperature is not necessarily caused by disease. In some cases, it can be caused by physiological increase of body temperature, such as strenuous exercise, premenstrual and pregnancy, entering high temperature environment or hot water bath, etc., which can make the body temperature slightly higher than usual, and these can be restored to normal through self-regulation.

References:

Fever Baidu encyclopedia