What to do when a child has a fever and chills

  When a child has a fever and gets chills, the temperature is usually on the rise, and usually the temperature is higher at this time. Do not rush to reduce the fever at this time, first let the child warm up, you can cover her with a quilt, wear thicker clothes, wait until you feel not cold and then take the temperature.  1. Give your child more warm water to accelerate sweating, sweating can reduce fever. Be sure to prevent your child from getting cold again after sweating. If you are not cold after sweating, you can reduce your clothes or quilt a little.  2. You can give your child a little hot ginger soup to help your baby sweat out the fever. You can give your child a little warm, light and easy to digest food, not too greasy or too sweet food.  3, when the child has a cold, do not give the child physical cooling. If the child appears to have poor blood circulation in the extremities and the hands and feet become cold, the body temperature may be on the rise. Wait until it is not too cold, you can give the child physical cooling.  If physical cooling is used, the child’s body temperature should not be lower than 38.5℃, and when nausea, vomiting, coughing, coughing phlegm, mental discomfort, abdominal pain and diarrhea occur, the child should be sent to the hospital for treatment in a timely manner.  Therefore, for children with fever and chills can first be cooled by physical methods, which are slower to work but have no obvious side effects. For persistent fever and chills, it is recommended to go to the hospital promptly.