Chinese medicine to prevent and treat pediatric “summer fever”

  Pediatric summer fever is a disease unique to infants and young children, also known as “summer fever”. It is caused by the imperfection of the thermoregulatory center in infants and young children. The main symptoms are: prolonged fever, excessive thirst, excessive urination, and closed or low sweating. How to prevent and treat pediatric summer fever has become a concern for parents. The following is a list of common methods to prevent and treat summer fever in children for parents’ reference.  One, diligent bathing Because the skin is tender, subcutaneous fat is small, easy to damage. High summer temperatures, coupled with spilled milk and urine and stool pollution, summer because of the skin cleaning twice a day according to the situation, to keep the skin pores open, after washing with a clean, soft dry towel to gently absorb the moisture on the skin, replaced with clean, soft and breathable cotton clothes.  Second, feed more water and juice hot summer weather, infants and young children have a strong metabolism, the need for more water, and digestion and absorption functions are often affected by high temperatures are relatively inadequate, so feed more water and juice to replenish the water lost due to high temperatures, to promote digestion and absorption, which is conducive to the growth and development of children.  Third, often change the air, do not get cold.  If you have the conditions of the family room is as far as possible to install air conditioning, but pay attention to the indoor temperature should not be too low, generally maintained at 26 ℃ -28 ℃ is appropriate to prevent children from catching a cold; children can not face the wind vents, every 2 hours at least open the windows and doors for ventilation for 10 minutes to keep the indoor air fresh.  Fourth, avoid cold drinks intake of cold drinks can harm the development of infants and children’s teeth and cause pediatric gastrointestinal disorders, because cold drinks are generally twenty to thirty degrees lower than the temperature inside the stomach. After the stomach mucosa is stimulated by too cold, the mucosal blood vessels are strongly contracted, resulting in bloating, indigestion, and affect metabolism.  Five, Chinese health food therapy 1, fresh lotus leaf 1, fresh winter melon 250 grams, a little salt. Wash the lotus leaf, decocted, wash and slice the winter melon, add 500 ml of water and cook together. Add a pinch of salt to taste, eat melon and drink soup in portions, 1 dose a day, can be used to prevent summer heat injury to the lungs and stomach type of pediatric summer fever.  2, 15 grams of white lentils, 20 grams of adzuki beans, 15 grams of Chinese yam, 15 grams of mucuna pruriens, 20 grams of coix seeds, half a fresh lotus leaf, 5 tied lantern grass, 75 grams of rice, slow-cooked porridge to the degree that the beans are cooked. Porridge in 2 meals, a daily dose, can prevent summer dampness injury to the spleen of children summer fever.  3.Dry perilla leaf, lotus leaf, patchouli, egg flower, 5 grams each chopped, boiling water, take 1 dose daily, divided into doses, can be used to prevent summer dampness of children’s summer fever.  4. 3 grams of green asparagus, 5 grams of honeysuckle, 3 grams each of lentil flower, light bamboo leaf and lotus leaf, 5 grams of watermelon emerald, and 3 grams of loofah. Decoction with water, 1 dose per day, 3 times a day. It can be used for pediatric summer hyperthermia evidence.