After a child has a fever
Infants and children usually have a body temperature between 36.5 and 37.5°C and are prone to fever. Therefore, parents must know their child’s usual temperature. If the temperature is 1℃ higher than usual, it indicates a fever. If the mood and face are good and there is appetite, and there are no symptoms other than fever such as rash and diarrhea, it does not matter. You can let your child rest and observe for a while.
The following cases require medical attention
1. If the child has a poor complexion, no appetite, lethargy, and other general conditions, do not consider the temperature to be high or low.
2.If the fever lasts for more than 3 days, accompanied by diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain, cough, runny nose, sore throat, earache, rash, convulsions, and other symptoms.
3.Children under three months old with fever of 38.0℃ or more and any of the following conditions: exhaustion, bad mood, purple face and lips, confusion, no response to calls, severe vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, convulsions, non-stop loud crying, and no urination for more than half a day.
After the child vomits
This is a normal physiological phenomenon. As long as the child is in a good mood, has an appetite and is gaining weight, there is no need to worry. If fever and impaired consciousness appear at the same time, it means that the symptoms are serious and should be observed with special attention.
The following situations require medical attention.
1. When the child vomits repeatedly, vomit mixed with blood, yellow-green bile, etc., and accompanied by fever, cough, diarrhea or abdominal pain, reluctance to drink, and no urine for more than half a day.
2. The child is tired and weak, with high fever or severe headache, convulsions and unconsciousness. The infant vomits repeatedly and cries out every 10 minutes or so, has a bad complexion, and develops blood in the stool.
After a child has a convulsion
The child sometimes jerks his or her body, but most are not convulsions. The child may also have a momentary stoppage of breathing and jerking of the body when crying violently. This is an anger tic and will be fine if you hold the child and let him calm down.
The following cases require medical attention.
1. The child has a symmetrical twitch from left to right and it lasts for about 3 minutes before it stops and recovers quickly after the attack.
2.If the convulsion lasts for 5 minutes, seek medical attention immediately.
3.If the convulsion lasts for 5 minutes without stopping, do call an ambulance when the seizure occurs.
4.Sometimes when the convulsions are short, but there is no fever, or when the convulsions are asymmetrical from left to right, repeated several times in a day, and accompanied by vomiting, pay special attention and seek medical attention immediately.
5. For infants under 6 months of age, seek immediate medical attention when there is confusion, purple face and lips, fatigue and weakness, and difficulty in breathing after a convulsion.
After a child suffers from coughing and wheezing
Children sometimes cough when they inhale dust or when the surrounding temperature or humidity changes. Babies also sometimes cough after eating breast milk or milk, and parents need not worry about these cases. If there are no other symptoms and the child is in a good mood and does not get worse, let the child rest for a day or two and watch the changes carefully.
The following cases require medical attention.
1. The cough is usually caused by a cold. If the child also has symptoms such as fever, runny nose, diarrhea and rash, he or she should be sent to the hospital for treatment.
2. If the cough lasts for a long time and the child appears to be breathing with a shoulder lift and makes a wheezing sound, you should also seek medical attention.
3. If the cough is so severe that the child is in pain and cannot sleep, go to the hospital immediately.
4.If the child is panting, coughing like a barking dog, breathing rapidly, and the soft part of the lower part of the throat is sunken when breathing, it means the condition is serious and should be immediately treated by a doctor.
5. Infants who breathe more than 60 times per minute and toddlers who breathe more than 40 times per minute must also be seen immediately. Sometimes a child has a sudden and strong cough, with eyes rolled over and purple face and lips, to feel the ambulance emergency.
The child cries abnormally
Babies will notify adults by crying when they are hungry, thirsty, have wet diapers, are hot, cold, or want to be held. At this time, the child’s crying will usually stop when the child is picked up and coaxed. However, if the child’s crying is different from usual, it is important to immediately observe the child for pain or injury.
The following situations require medical attention.
1. If your child suddenly cries like he or she is on fire, or if he or she cries very weakly but continues to cry incessantly, you should pay attention.
2.When there are symptoms such as high fever, vomiting, rash, or always crying periodically during feeding and other times, you should go to the hospital for examination.
3.If you touch your child’s ears or feet and your child cries more than once, you should also seek medical attention.
4.The child is exhausted, unconscious, and has a purple face and lips;
5.After the head is bumped, the child cries and howls, and the next day, vomiting, convulsions, disorders of consciousness and other abnormalities appear;
6.Crying heavily every 10 minutes, accompanied by poor face, vomiting and blood in stool.
After the child has a headache
When an infant appears irritable, cries loudly, is tired, has a bad face, keeps touching his head with his hands, and has a lump on the top of his head, it is a sign that the child feels a headache. When an infant has a headache, he or she will usually have a bad mental and emotional state, a poor complexion, a painful feeling when the child’s neck is touched, and an inability to lower or tilt the head.
The following situations require medical attention.
1.When the headache lasts for a long time, recurs frequently and gets progressively worse, you should go to the hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible, and sometimes you may need to use EEG for examination.
2. If the headache is accompanied by a poor complexion, fever, vomiting, dizziness, or standing dizziness, you should seek medical attention immediately.
3. If your child has earache, toothache, eye or nose abnormality when he/she has headache, go to the ENT department of the hospital for examination. If the head is injured, brain surgery examination.
4.Sudden severe headache, and accompanied by bad face, meaning disorder, vomiting, etc.
5.The headache persists and causes convulsions.
Child’s face and skin color abnormal
Observing changes in the color of the face is crucial to understanding the child’s health. Parents should first understand the child’s usual face color. When the child’s face color is different from usual, red, blue or yellow, they must pay attention to the child’s health. When the skin or mucous membranes breathe blue or pale, it is called “cyanosis” and children often have this symptom. This symptom can occur during or after breastfeeding, or after a child cries loudly and violently.
The following situations require medical attention.
1. When the child has a blue face, is not in good spirits, or has a red face, fever, and rash;
2.When the child’s face and the whites of the eyes are yellow, he or she is not in good spirits, and purple spots appear on the skin, parents should take the child to the hospital immediately.
3.When the child appears cyanotic, and is tired and in poor spirits, and also has severe diarrhea, vomiting, headache, high fever, convulsions and breathing difficulties, it means that the situation is very critical, so go to the hospital immediately for treatment.
4.If there is unresponsiveness, unconsciousness, etc., immediate ambulance resuscitation.
5, in addition, the baby every 10 minutes cry, also accompanied by blood in the stool, blue face, weakness and other symptoms also can not immediately ambulance rescue.
After the child has a rash
The skin of infants and toddlers is relatively delicate and is extremely susceptible to infection. Babies who keep touching their faces and scratching their skin indiscriminately may be suffering from eczema and itchy skin. Mild eczema or diaper rash will heal quickly as long as the skin is kept clean and not irritated.
The following conditions require medical attention.
1. accompanied by fever.
2.If the skin symptoms are severe, seek medical attention immediately.
3.If accompanied by cough, diarrhea, bloodshot eyes, or blisters, rash in the mouth and spread quickly throughout the body, it may be an infectious disease.
4.If accompanied by high fever and swollen lymph nodes, headache, nausea, red and swollen tonsils, seek medical attention as soon as possible.
After a child’s abdominal pain
There are many causes of abdominal pain in children. The key is to see if there are symptoms other than abdominal pain such as diarrhea and vomiting, and if there are systemic symptoms such as abnormal face and mood, which are the criteria for judging whether to seek medical attention. If there are no other symptoms, the child looks normal and has a good appetite, there is no need to worry. Sometimes children hold back stools because they are fully engaged in playing, which can also cause abdominal pain that will recover naturally with a bowel movement.
The following cases require medical attention.
1.When accompanied by diarrhea, vomiting, fever and cough, go to the hospital as soon as possible.
2, abdominal pain during urination and defecation, abdominal pain for more than one hour, abdominal pain caused by certain postures, etc. must also be seen.
3.Sudden and severe abdominal pain; loud crying when the baby’s legs are bent indicates that the child’s abdomen is distended and painful.
4.In addition, when the child vomits tea-colored things and has coal-tar stools, gastrointestinal bleeding is suspected.
5, blue face, cold sweat, weakness, call an ambulance immediately.
After a child has diarrhea
Babies’ stools are soft, and children are prone to diarrhea even if they are not sick. If the child laughs and has a good spirit and appetite, even if the stool is a little thin and more frequent (less than 10 times a day), it is not a big problem and there is no need to worry. It is normal for the stool to be slightly dark or greenish in color and mixed with white feces.
The following situations require medical attention.
1, diarrhea lasting a long time, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, bad complexion, weight gain, you should seek medical attention as soon as possible.
2.Severe diarrhea of more than 10 times a day.
3.Regardless of the number of times of diarrhea, when white watery stools like rice washings, thin stools with a little blood, bloody stools like tomato sauce, or black stools like coal tar appear.
4. It is also accompanied by fever, vomiting, severe abdominal pain, and convulsions. The face is blue, weakness, and poor response.