Infants with measles are mainly treated with general treatment and symptomatic treatment, and patients with complications should be treated accordingly.
1. General treatment: infants with measles should pay attention to bed rest, maintain proper indoor temperature, humidity and air circulation, avoid bright light stimulation. Pay attention to the skin and eyes, nose, mouth clean. Encourage more water, give easy to digest and nutritious food, can promote the recovery.
2. Symptomatic treatment: If the child’s T ≥ 38.5 ℃, antipyretic agents can be used as appropriate, such as ibuprofen suspension, acetaminophen granules, but should avoid rapid reduction of fever, especially in the rash period. Irritability can be appropriately given sedatives, such as chloral hydrate. Frequent and severe cough can be used to stop cough, such as aminoglutethimide oral solution.
3. Treatment of complications: if the child is combined with secondary bacterial infection, antibiotic treatment can be given, such as cefixime, cefdinir and other drugs.
Children with measles should be isolated in time, control the source of infection, cut off the path of infection, timely consultation, under the guidance of the doctor to carry out active treatment, do not unauthorized use of drugs to avoid adverse consequences. The above drugs should be used according to the doctor’s instructions.