Causes of fever Fever care 1, clothing: pack baby not too tight, wear clothes not too thick. When the fever is high and the body is hot, clothing can be slightly less than usual, just when the child feels cold, cold hands and feet, you can wear a little more layer. When the fever first comes down, you may sweat, if you sweat more, change your clothes in time to keep dry. 2.Cooling down: just letting the child’s body cool down does not reduce the fever, but it can make the child feel more comfortable. You can use ice, wet towels to wipe the child’s body, if you use alcohol, need to be diluted with an equal amount of water. You can rub the child’s hands, feet, forehead and large blood vessels pulsating place, while the face, chest prohibit the use of alcohol scrubbing. If the indoor temperature exceeds 35℃, air conditioner can be used, but the temperature should not be lower than 28℃, and the air conditioner vent or fan should not be facing the child. 3. Food: When you have a fever, you will feel thirsty and your body will easily excrete water, so you should give your child water and water-rich food in time. Do I need fever-reducing medicine? The cause of fever is complex and is a symptom of a disease rather than the disease itself. It may be a common cold or inflammation of the tonsils, or it may be a serious illness such as measles, pneumonia or meningitis. The most important thing is to consult a doctor in time to find out the cause of the illness and treat the cause of the fever. Abuse of antipyretic and pain relievers before the cause is identified can mask the condition, prevent proper diagnosis and delay treatment. Especially in young children with high fever, if the use of antipyretic drugs is not appropriate, it will also cause increased sweating, a sudden drop in body temperature and collapse. Fever is actually only a symptom of disease, not a disease, is a defensive response to the initial stage of many diseases, is one of the body’s self-protection mechanism. In a sense, fever is not necessarily a bad thing, fever can effectively inhibit the invasion of pathogenic microorganisms on the human body, promote the human body to restore health, enhance the body’s immune function, of course, fever will make the human body in a high metabolism, high oxygen consumption, the gastrointestinal function of the state of the weakening of the gastrointestinal tract, especially persistent hyperthermia, but also damage to the human body’s health, so that the various tissues and organs dysfunctional, and ultimately lead to the human body’s defense against disease This will eventually lead to a decrease in the body’s ability to defend itself against disease and even stimulate the risk of other diseases. Many parents are afraid of fever because they are afraid of “febrile convulsions”, in fact, the term “febrile convulsions” will give people ambiguity, so it has long been renamed “febrile convulsions”. Febrile convulsions are sudden rise or sudden fall in body temperature that leads to abnormal brain discharges, thus causing spasmodic seizures of muscles throughout the body, note that “sudden”, some children have convulsions when their body temperature rises rapidly, while others have convulsions when their body temperature falls rapidly, and frankly speaking, inappropriate cooling measures can also lead to the occurrence of convulsions! The good news is that febrile convulsions are usually benign and do not damage the brain. We need to know what the purpose of dealing with fever is – in fact, all of our symptomatic care is aimed at making the body comfortable so that the disease can regress in a favorable direction. Giving the necessary cooling measures can help increase the body’s comfort, but over-treatment of fever can also increase the body’s discomfort, so don’t go to two extremes when it comes to fever, and in the process of care, it must be important to note that we’re not looking for that value on the thermometer to drop quickly to normal, but rather, we need to be more concerned about the child’s spirit and vitality. Usually, antipyretic drugs are given for axillary temperature of 38.5℃ or above, which is not absolute, but also with reference to the child’s general performance at that time. If the child’s spirit is good, can eat, drink and play, even if the axillary temperature of 38.5 ℃ or more can still consider continuing to observe, temporarily without the use of antipyretic drugs; If the child’s spirit is not good, poor diet, even if the axillary temperature of 38.5 ℃ or less can be considered the use of antipyretic drugs; clinically the most commonly used in pediatric ibuprofen or acetaminophen. If the value is measured slightly less than 38.5°C during the chilling phase of fever, but that often means that the temperature may continue to rise rapidly, and it takes about half an hour for the medication to work from the time it is taken, so you may want to consider whether or not to use antipyretic medication earlier, depending on how your child is acting at the time and your previous experience in caring for him or her. Back to the previous parent’s question, any guidelines have a certain range of applicable framework, first, physical cooling in the broad sense, including appropriate lowering/raising the room temperature as needed, maintaining ventilation, etc., which are routinely being done; second, physical cooling in the narrow sense, such as alcohol baths, ice pillows, etc., because of the hazards caused by the fever will be greater than the fever itself, so these can not be done, then, for example, the (warm) water (rubbing) baths, if the The child feels the need to feel comfortable can also be done (usually in the period of high fever), if it is heat production and heat dissipation disorder caused by fever more urgent need to do. Infection-induced fever, body temperature is controlled by the hypothalamus thermoregulation point, when heat production and heat dissipation are in a balanced state, usually the axillary temperature will not exceed 41 ℃, if it is more than 41 ℃, we need to consider whether it is heat stroke, dehydration, and other heat production and heat dissipation disorders caused by the temperature rise, (for example, extreme sweltering environment, the child is trapped in the car temperature rises more than 42 ℃) at this time, medication to reduce the body temperature is not effective, we must use the baths and other physical cooling methods to quickly reduce the body temperature. Physical cooling methods must be used to quickly lower the body temperature and send the child to the hospital as soon as possible to avoid a life-threatening situation!