Is there a safe and effective way to reduce fever? Parents of children with fever are very anxious, and some parents will ask that the fever be reduced no matter what, in fact, we should not only reduce the fever of the child, but more importantly, cure the disease and protect the health of the child, sometimes short-term fever reduction does not improve the condition and is not the most beneficial practice for the health of the child, so I hope more parents can understand the reasoning. We can compare a child’s fever to a pot of water boiling, short-term rapid fever reduction is to add cold water to it, and the addition of cold water is only temporary, the fire under the pot is not extinguished or will boil. On the contrary, after the infection of germs, a proper fever can mobilize the body’s defense system to fight the germs and achieve early recovery, if you do not let the fever, the defense system can not start, the condition is not easy to improve. That’s why many patients use a lot of antipyretic drugs, but the disease is prolonged and weakened. Therefore, after understanding these we try to choose safe and effective methods to reduce fever, including physical cooling, oral fever reduction, etc. In addition, we will follow up with some tui na methods and dietary therapy to help reduce fever, these methods do not affect the recovery of the disease, but also protect the child’s constitution, and can be safely applied. Do I have to use antibiotics for fever? Many parents will first give their children antibiotics of cephalosporin and amoxicillin when they have a fever. Do all fevers require antibiotics? Sometimes after the doctor prescribes medicine for the child, parents will ask: Doctor, don’t you need anti-inflammatory medicine? It is evident that the use of antibiotics for children with fever has become deeply rooted. For this question, we must first understand the etiology of fever. Fever is just a symptom, many diseases will be manifested as fever, children fever most common for respiratory tract infections, the most common pathogen of upper respiratory tract infections are currently viral infections, bacterial infections are less common, and viral infections do not require antibiotics; lower respiratory tract infections easily combined with bacterial infections, under the guidance of doctors can apply antibiotics. Some children get a cold when they go out or have a fever at school while many children are also having a fever. This is mostly a viral infection, and blind treatment with antibiotics will not only be ineffective, but will destroy the normal flora of the child. In short, whether or not to apply antibiotics must be based on the doctor’s judgment, rather than applying them at your own discretion. The management of antibiotics is gradually becoming stricter, and in many places now, parents cannot buy antibiotics themselves without a doctor’s prescription. How to prevent fever in children in four seasons? The causes of fever are different throughout the year. After understanding the causes of fever mentioned earlier, we can make targeted preventions, such as bacterial and viral infections, pay attention to hand hygiene, wash hands more often, and avoid going to places where people are concentrated; feel wind and cold, pay attention to weather changes, increase and decrease clothing at the right time, especially after strenuous activities, do not drink cold; and food fever, pay attention to avoid overeating and overeating. In addition, we need to understand the different characteristics of each season, and targeted prevention of fever in children. First of all, in winter, Yang Qi is closed and the human body is no exception, so we should pay attention to keeping warm, avoiding wind and cold, and protecting the Yang Qi hidden in the human body. Otherwise, it is not only easy to cause the wind and cold outside, and the body’s Yang Qi out to defend against the wind and cold, can not be hidden inside, and to the next year weak, prone to disease, as the so-called “winter injury in the cold, spring will be sick temperature”. In winter, children should increase their diet and nutrition to ensure nutritional reserves and strong digestive and absorption functions, which can be beneficial to nutrient absorption. The fever in summer is different from that in winter. In summer, Yang-heat floats on the top and Yin-cold prevails on the bottom. For children with Yang-heat constitution, they are prone to high fever that does not subside, pus in the tonsils, thick yellow tongue coating, thirst and cold drinking, etc.; while children with Yin-cold constitution are prone to vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, poor appetite, yellow face, thick white tongue coating and other manifestations of stagnation in the spleen and stomach. Therefore, children with different body types should be treated separately. Children with Yang-heat body types can eat foods that clear the lungs and stomach, such as mung beans, vegetables and fruits, and avoid facing the cold wind after strenuous exercise, which can easily cause the Wei Qi to close and depress the fever; children with Yin-cold body types should pay attention to the protection of the spleen and stomach, and eat a warm diet, with less cold foods such as watermelon and bitter melon, and avoid overeating, with seven minutes of fullness at each meal. Otherwise, damage to the spleen and stomach can easily occur, resulting in vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain, etc. Spring is the season of rising yang, the ground yang gradually increase, the growth of yang is also the human body growth momentum, pay attention to protect the human body yang, if prematurely reduce clothing, the human body yang used to protect the cold, but can not be used to support human growth and development, will be sick. Autumn is the season of Yang Qi decline, the ground Yang Qi gradually reduce, the human body is no exception, at this time to avoid prematurely increase clothing, otherwise it will prevent Yang heat decline, and easy to appear autumn dry disease, lung gold injury and see cough, fever and other diseases, the common saying: spring cover autumn freezing, is this reason. Can you introduce some TCM methods to reduce fever? The understanding of fever in TCM includes external fever and internal fever, while children have mainly external fever and also fever from food accumulation. Therefore, the methods of fever reduction mainly focus on these causes. For example, if the child has fever, no sweating, fear of cold, not drinking water, nasal congestion, etc., it is mostly caused by wind and cold, or the Wei Qi is closed and not open, so sweating should be the main cause, and the doctor will use Ma Huang Tang to generate sweat. If the child has fever, is not afraid of cold, has sweat, some headache, dizziness, etc., these are mostly due to wind-heat, or called the draining of Rong Qi, the doctor will use Gui Zhi Tang to control the draining effect of Rong Qi, parents can cook soup or soybean milk at home. Children with fever from food accumulation can be treated with betel nut, tempeh, forsythia, etc. to eliminate food and clear heat when they suddenly develop fever after overeating, poor appetite, even vomiting, thick and greasy tongue, heavy breath, and sour stools. At the same time, these fevers can be treated with tui na, which is easier for children to cooperate with and more effective. The main acupuncture points for fever are clearing the heart meridian, clearing the lung meridian, transporting the internal eight trigrams, rubbing the internal labor palace, clearing the Tianhe water, retreating the six internal organs, clearing the three gates, etc. Children with food accumulation can be treated with additional rubbing of the Panmun, tonic spleen meridian, clearing the large intestine, and chiropractic.