A 5-year-old child with low fever and vomiting may be related to acute gastroenteritis, central nervous system infection, etc. It is recommended to consult a doctor in time to clarify the cause, and give symptomatic treatment such as physical cooling and causative treatment.
1. Symptomatic treatment: If a 5-year-old child has a low fever and vomits, he or she needs to be cooled down, because a low fever usually doesn’t exceed 38.5 degrees Celsius, so physical therapy is usually the mainstay, such as wiping the child’s body with lukewarm water or placing fever-reducing patches on his or her head, etc., and giving the child a small amount of water to drink several times can help to improve this symptom. If the vomiting is severe, vitamin B6 can be given.
2. Treatment of the cause: the child appeared the above symptoms may be caused by acute gastroenteritis, there may be central nervous system infection caused by the situation, so we need to go to the hospital for further relevant examinations, a clear diagnosis and then give targeted treatment. If it is clear that the bacterial infection is caused by acute gastroenteritis, you need to take cefixime and other drugs.
5-year-old low fever and vomiting may also have other reasons, it is recommended that timely to the hospital for relevant examinations, clear cause of the active treatment, in addition to the above medications are recommended to take under the guidance of a doctor, can not be used on their own.