The first thing you should do to reduce fever is to let your child drink more water or fluids, because the body temperature is lowered by evaporation of water through the skin, if in the absence of sufficient water, eat any medicine does not work.
This is the first thing you can do to stimulate your child’s skin to emit more heat. But if the child does not have enough water in his body, all measures will not reach the expected standard.
How is the temperature of medication defined?
What people think of as a high fever is generally the temperature that they can tolerate. A high fever is defined as forty degrees or higher, thirty-eight degrees and a half to forty degrees refers to a moderate fever, and thirty-eight degrees and a half or less refers to a low fever.
We usually use our own ability to tolerate as a standard, which is actually not too scientific. When we are faced with giving medicine to a child, it refers to a fever of moderate degree or higher.
What temperature should I go to the hospital and can’t stay home anymore?
A: Above thirty-eight degrees five we recommend taking fever-reducing medicine, but when to go to the hospital is directly related to the experience of parents. From a medical professional’s point of view, it is not necessary to go to the hospital in the first 24 hours of a fever.
First, the child should drink more water or fluids at the beginning of the fever, and if it is more than 38.5 degrees, we should give him antipyretic medicine and observe the child’s condition after the fever, and go to the hospital to help confirm the diagnosis through some blood sampling, etc. Blood changes can only be reflected 24 hours after the fever, so going to the hospital too early does not reflect it, and if the child has some excessive behavior within 24 hours, such as If within 24 hours the child shows some excessive behavior, such as violent coughing, drowsiness, vomiting, diarrhea and other serious symptoms, go to the hospital immediately.
What kind of antipyretic medicine should I take for my child’s fever?
The only two fever-reducing drugs that children can take are acetaminophen and ibuprofen. It is not recommended to give aspirin to children, especially children under 13 years old. The reason it is not recommended is that it can lead to liver necrosis and serious life-threatening effects (Reye’s syndrome) if taken inappropriately.
Acetaminophen and ibuprofen are two components of the drug that are safe for children. The same 5 ml of medicine is fed to small infants is usually a concentrated drug, and to older children instead is diluted. The first thing that happens after drug poisoning is damage to the liver, which is the body’s metabolic organ, and damage to the nervous system when too many drugs are taken.
Parents must pay attention to the fact that our children eat in relatively precise doses, it is best to use the liquid, because there is a straw inside, there may also be a scale, we may be better to grasp. For powders or tablets, do not give them easily to children, especially small infants, because the dose is not very accurate.
Generally acetaminophen maintains the fever for about four hours, while ibuprofen maintains it for about six to eight hours. If you take acetaminophen, if you have a fever again after four hours, then take ibuprofen, and if you have a fever again after taking ibuprofen, then take acetaminophen. The premise is that the time is a minimum interval, not that it must be interval, and the two drugs are taken alternately in order to reduce the possible side effects that
Do I need to take antipyretics for fever?
There are many factors that can cause a fever, and we may only use anti-inflammatory drugs if the fever is caused by a bacterial infection, and never use the temperature as a criterion. If a child encounters a stimulus, and that stimulus is a cold, and one child has a fever of thirty-nine degrees and another child has a fever of forty degrees, which child is more robust? The stronger the response, the more robust the body is. Fever is a reaction of the body to the outside world, such as bacteria and viruses, and the stronger the reaction, the better the actual effect.
What is the right fever level to reduce a fever to?
A low fever stimulates the immune system to fight bacteria and viruses, helping the process of rapid destruction of bacteria and recovery. If the body temperature drops to thirty-six degrees, the immune system is not being called upon. Overall, a fever is a good thing. A fever is a response of the body to fight this germ, so never think that a fever will burn your child.
If the disease does cause brain damage, such as fever caused by meningitis, it is caused by the meningitis itself, not burned out. But the higher the body temperature, the more the function of the brain tissue is relatively disturbed, there may be febrile convulsions, the fever is very high, the body metabolism is particularly strong, the burden on the liver and kidney function are too heavy.
How exactly do you reduce fever?
Soak in warm water, the skin blood vessels are dilated, and heat is distributed. Because there is too little water in the child’s body, you cannot cover the blanket because it is easy to cause dehydration, because the plasticity is too small, and the fever may be reduced along with dehydration. Properly raise the ambient temperature and wear less clothes so as to ensure that the skin heat is emitted.
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The use of ice packs when fever can only reduce the surface temperature to cause the illusion of reducing fever, but in fact, it will lead to pore contraction, the heat accumulation in the body can not achieve the effect of reducing fever, and even intensify the rise in body temperature, children with fever is not recommended to cover the quilt to reduce fever practice, prone to dehydration, resulting in danger. When children have a fever, they can take a warm bath to stretch the blood vessels and accelerate the distribution of heat in the body. You can reduce clothing while raising the ambient temperature to facilitate heat dissipation and help relieve fever symptoms.
What if I can’t get the right medicine?
When children take medicine, adults should try to be calm and avoid bringing mental stress to children, including the injection is also, parents should treat this matter with a calm state of mind. Because our emotions will make the child’s emotions change. You can also mix the medication into the food to take, but do not treat it nervously nor imply it. One, because the child is afraid, and two, because the child can easily choke the medication into the trachea.
Are fluids good or not?
If you give fluids, your child’s fever will go down faster because the fluids go in and help dissipate the heat. But for antibiotics, we need to use discretion, and we need to use them only when there are certain indications. In addition, there will be some particles inside the infusion, the infusion only does not contain live bacteria, but there will be particles. In foreign countries, infusion and a minor surgery is a concept.