The parents are the most worried when their baby is sick, should they carry it raw? Or go to the hospital? In fact, the hospital is not a panacea, many diseases are self-healing diseases, blindly go to the hospital, in addition to increasing the registration difficult, difficult to see the medical problems, bear more economic burden, there may be cross-infection, excessive medical damage to the baby’s resistance and so on. But some parents say, if you are sick and do not go to the hospital, will not delay the child’s condition, originally a cold, delayed the best time, turned into pneumonia how? This time parents need to grasp some basic medical knowledge, so that you can determine whether to go to the hospital or not? A fever is not a disease in itself, but a symptom, and fever is not all bad, it is the baby’s immune system to start their own, an immune protective response to resist infection. Usually the flu, diarrhea, tonsillitis, toddler rash, otitis media and other diseases may cause a child to have a fever. What should I do if my child has a fever? Although parents are particularly worried when their child has a fever, they should first calm down. If the child is still eating milk and in good spirits, they can first deal with it by themselves at home first. If your baby has a fever lower than 38.5℃, you can take physical cooling methods, while over 38.5℃, you need to take oral antipyretics. Please seek medical attention when your child has these conditions: 1. fever in babies less than half a year old; 2. fever and convulsions, or the baby has had convulsions, or someone in the family has a history of fever and convulsions; 3. baby has a high fever, the temperature exceeds 39 ℃; 4. fever for more than 24 hours, after taking cooling measures, but still no improvement; 5. baby has a long-term fever or fever of unknown origin, regardless of low fever 5.When a baby has a long term fever or fever of unknown origin, whether it is low fever, moderate fever or high fever, it is necessary to go to the hospital promptly. Tips: 1. Generally, it takes 24 hours after a child has a fever for blood tests to detect whether there is an infection, so it is recommended that blood tests be performed after 24 hours of fever; 2. If a baby does not sweat when he has a fever and his palms and feet are cold, it means that his body temperature will rise. 2. Coughing Like fever, coughing is a protective reflex, that is, it is caused when our throat, trachea or bronchi are stimulated by some secretions or foreign bodies in order to protect the smooth flow of the respiratory tract. What should I do if my baby coughs? The most common cause of cough is a cold. If your baby has only a mild cough with little phlegm and is in good spirits, you can first go to the hospital and observe at home, and you can give him over-the-counter Chinese medicine such as pediatric cold granules. In the case of phlegm, you can use Mucosolvan or Ambroxol, which are phlegmolytic drugs or nebulized methods to dissolve phlegm. Please seek medical attention promptly if your child has the following conditions: 1. If your baby has been coughing for a few days and the condition is still worsening, or if there is difficulty in breathing, blue lips and increased pulse you should seek medical attention immediately; 2. If the cough is accompanied by fever symptoms and the temperature exceeds 38.5℃, take your baby to the hospital for examination after 24 hours of fever; 3. If your baby suddenly develops violent choking, breath-holding and constant dry cough after eating, check whether there is foreign body stuck, take the baby to the hospital for examination after emergency treatment. If the baby’s cough lasts for more than six weeks, it may be caused by asthma or bronchial inflammation, and should also be promptly seen by the hospital. Third, vomiting The child eats too much, or is allergic or intolerant to what he eats, or viruses or bacteria infect the gastrointestinal tract, or even other diseases like otitis media, meningitis, tonsillitis, haunting tailitis, etc. may trigger vomiting. What should I do if my baby vomits? If your baby vomits slightly and can be relieved after rest, there is no need to worry too much and fasting is not necessary. In case of heavy vomiting, fast for 4-6 hours and give your baby fluids to prevent dehydration. After the baby has stopped vomiting for 2 hours, you can give the baby 30-60 ml of oral rehydration salts every half hour to one hour. If vomiting does not occur after 4 consecutive oral rehydration solutions, give another rehydration feeding, followed by a mixture of 30 ml of breast milk (or formula) and 30 ml of rehydration solution after half an hour. If vomiting does not occur after two doses of the mixture, you can switch to breast milk or formula. If vomiting does not occur for 12 hours, you can switch to a normal diet. Please seek medical attention promptly if your child has the following conditions: 1. Infants and children vomit violently, vomiting almost all the food they eat; 2. Babies repeatedly vomit, vomit and diarrhea with high fever of 38℃ or more; 3. Symptoms of dehydration, such as reduced urination, dry lips and mouth, crying but no tears, sunken eyes, excessive sleepiness, and sunken fontanelle of the baby; 4. Babies fall down from a high place and land or after fever 5. Vomit contains fecal matter, blood or coffee grounds, vomit looks yellowish green or smells like feces; 6. Tips: 1, despite the nausea, when taking your baby to the hospital, try to save some of the vomit for examination; 2, when your baby vomits, you should let his head tilt to the side so that the vomit does not return to the trachea. Fourth, diarrhea The baby’s digestive system is immature and the child has diarrhea, which may be a viral infection or a bacterial infection, while more mild diarrhea is caused by indigestion, a cold stomach, inability to tolerate lactose, and allergy to food. What should I do if my baby has diarrhea? If the diarrhea is caused by cold, parents should pay attention to keep the abdomen warm and also massage the baby’s abdomen clockwise to regulate it. If the diarrhea occurs after eating complementary foods, you can suspend the complementary foods and then observe the baby’s stool. In autumn and winter, if your baby has egg-flake soup-like stools, he or she may be infected with rotavirus, so you can take probiotics and montelukast for mediation. If the baby is severely dehydrated, oral rehydration salts are needed. If your baby has mucus or blood-stained stools in summer, there is a possibility of bacterial infection, which can be treated with antibiotics. If your child has the following conditions, please seek medical attention: 1. diarrhea persists for more than a week; 2. blood mixed with stool, like tar or jam, is evident; 3. there are signs of dehydration; 4. your baby is depressed and lethargic, even though the number of stools is not high and there is no fever, you need to send him/her to the hospital immediately. Tips: If parents do not want to take their child to the hospital, they can let the baby poop in a clean box, put it in a plastic bag, seal it and send it to the hospital for examination within 1 hour. If the stool specimen has pus and blood, the pus and mucus portion should be picked out. Modern medicine is always expected to be infinitely high, and we all expect to be able to get rid of the disease when we arrive at the hospital, expecting the doctor to return to us, because life is priceless, not to mention the child, who represents hope. But as parents, our responsibility is not only to send our children to the hospital, but also to improve our own general knowledge of child care, to look at the development of the disease reasonably and objectively, and to help our babies fight the disease while improving their resistance, which is perhaps what more parents need to do.