Can children wait for self-healing when they have a fever?

Because of media reports, "star" parenting has once again entered everyone's field of vision. People who know this organization may know that they believe in Darwinian medicine and think that fever can help children gain resistance, so they can't take medicine, so they can only wait for self-healing.

The official WeChat account of "Star" has pushed many examples of children's fever and self-healing. Some children have a fever of more than 40 degrees, and some children have a fever for more than ten days. It is also good to insist on self-healing without medication. Can a child wait for his fever to heal itself?

There are many reasons for children's fever, such as infection, inflammation, tumor and immune metabolism, but most of them are caused by infection, among which viral infection is the most common.

Virus infection can cause colds, flu, bronchitis, pneumonia, rotavirus enteritis, hand, foot and mouth disease, herpetic angina, acute rash of infants and so on. These are common diseases in pediatrics. At present, there are no antiviral drugs for these viruses, so they mainly rely on self-healing, and most of these diseases can indeed heal themselves.

Therefore, it is very common for children to have a fever without medication and then heal themselves. Before the birth of modern medicine, our ancestors also survived by self-healing.

But now with modern medicine, with the help of modern medicine, people not only have a higher chance of survival when they are sick, but also live longer. When they are sick, they don't have to bite the bullet and fight hard like our ancestors did. For example, with anesthetics, we can feel no pain during trauma or surgery, and with antipyretics, we can feel less uncomfortable when we have a high fever.

Fever is really not a disease but a symptom. A fever won't burn your brain, but it will make people feel uncomfortable. We adults have all experienced this smell when we have a fever. Taking antipyretics can make us feel less uncomfortable. Modern medicine has proved that it is safe to use acetaminophen, ibuprofen and other antipyretics rationally, and authoritative medical institutions such as the American Academy of Pediatrics also advise children to use antipyretics when they have a fever.

Therefore, even if it is a viral infectious disease that can heal itself, even if antipyretics can't make children recover faster, children can still take antipyretics when they have a serious fever, just as anesthetics can't help the wound recover, but we still need to use antipyretics during the operation. Adults take medicine when they have a fever to make themselves feel better, but children are forced to put up with it in the name of being good when they have a fever. It's just bullying children. They have no choice.

In addition, we should know that most self-healing virus infections can heal themselves, which does not mean that all children will heal themselves. Rotavirus enteritis can cause dehydration shock in children, influenza and viral pneumonia can cause respiratory failure in children, and hand, foot and mouth disease can cause children to die of myocarditis and encephalitis.

In addition, children's fever is not only a common self-healing viral infectious disease, but also some dangerous viral infections, such as viral encephalitis, some serious bacterial infections, such as meningitis and septicemia, as well as inflammatory diseases such as Kawasaki disease and malignant diseases such as tumors and leukemia.

As a pediatrician, we need to carefully identify those children who may have serious problems in a large number of common diseases that can heal themselves, but even if we are careful, we will inevitably miss them. Parents who have no medical foundation, if they believe that fever is the child's self-healing ability and that the child is gaining resistance and blindly waiting for self-healing at home, may delay the child's treatment and cause irreversible harm to the child.

In fact, modern medicine does not recommend that children use antipyretics as soon as they have a fever. It is only recommended when their temperature exceeds 39 degrees and they feel uncomfortable. Unless they are children within 3 months, they are not advised to go to the hospital as soon as they have a fever. Therefore, it is not impossible to wait for the fever to heal itself, but children should not be blindly resisted. Parents need to know how to observe.

If the child is less than 3 months old and has a fever, he should go to the hospital. If the child has a fever for more than 3 months and his mental reaction is not good, he should also go to the hospital. If the child has a fever accompanied by symptoms such as headache, stiff neck, convulsion, sore throat, earache, rash or ecchymosis, repeated vomiting and diarrhea, he should also go to the hospital for examination. Children under 2 years old have a fever for more than 24 hours, and children over 2 years old should go to the hospital if they have a fever for more than 3 days. If their body temperature repeatedly exceeds 40℃ at any age, or they have no confidence in themselves, they should also go to the hospital.

Advocating self-healing therapy without injection and medicine is in line with many people's expectations for green therapy. In many countries, there are a group of believers. Domestically, due to the backwardness of the medical system, over-treatment is indeed more serious. Many diseases that can be cured by themselves have to be treated in hospitals, and many useless and potentially harmful drugs have to be taken.

For example, the news reported that the child was prescribed a useless Chaigui antipyretic granule after the doctor thought it was a virus infection. The unreliable medical system has led to a better soil for self-healing religions like Stella, which is why Stella has been repeatedly criticized but still has many followers. Although their official WeChat account was blocked this time, as long as the medical environment does not change, they will come back soon.

As parents, we need to know that people on the earth have a fever all the time, no matter in the past or now. Whether you choose to wait for self-healing, jump into a trance, or choose traditional Chinese medicine or modern medicine, because most fevers are caused by self-healing diseases, most people can recover, but some people will always get worse. It is not someone else's children who choose to heal themselves, and your children will heal themselves. It's not that they chose to heal themselves last time, but they will heal themselves this time. Of all the choices, modern medicine is the one that can make children recover with the greatest probability.

We should also know that modern medicine is actually going against the sky, allowing those who can't survive and those who can survive to live better, which is really not conducive to human evolution. Natural selection is indeed beneficial to the overall evolution of human beings, but only if some people can't stand being eliminated by choice. Even if our medical system is not so reliable, everyone's health is still much better than when doctors and medicines are in short supply.

When other children go to the hospital to see a doctor, you let your child choose to heal himself, which is equivalent to letting your child give up medical help and accept natural selection, which is equivalent to letting him accept unfair competition. The result is more likely that other children won, but your child was eliminated. Superstition about "star-like" parenting really may make children become "meteors". (This article first launched Tencent's more realistic platform)