Parents are the most worried when their babies are sick, should they carry on? Or go to the hospital? In fact, the hospital is not a panacea, many diseases are self-healing diseases, blindly go to the hospital, in addition to increasing the difficulty of registration, difficult to see the medical problems, bear more economic burden, there may be cross-infection, excessive medical damage to the baby’s resistance, etc.. But some parents say, if you are sick and do not go to the hospital, will not delay the child’s condition, originally a cold, delayed the best time, turned into pneumonia how? This time parents need to grasp some basic medical knowledge, so they can determine whether to go to the hospital or not? Fever is not a disease in itself, but a symptom, and fever is not all bad, it is the baby’s immune system to start their own immune protective response against infection. Often illnesses such as colds, diarrhea, tonsillitis, toddler rash and otitis media can cause fever in children. What should I do if my child has a fever? Although parents are particularly worried when their child has a fever, they should first calm down. If the child is still eating milk and in good spirits, they can first deal with it by themselves at home first. If your baby has a fever lower than 38.5℃, you can take physical cooling methods, while over 38.5℃, you need to take oral antipyretics. If your child has these conditions, please seek medical attention: 1. fever in babies less than half a year old; 2. fever and convulsions, or the baby has had convulsions, or someone in the family has a history of fever and convulsions; 3. baby has a high fever, the temperature exceeds 39 ℃; 4. fever for more than 24 hours, after taking cooling measures, but still no improvement; 5. baby fever for a long time or fever of unknown origin, whether Low fever, moderate fever or high fever, it is necessary to go to the hospital in a timely manner. Warm tips: 1, the general child fever 24 hours after the blood routine to detect the presence of infection, so it is recommended that the fever 24 hours before the blood test. 2. If your baby is not sweating when he has a fever and his palms and feet are cold, it means that his body temperature will rise again. Coughing Coughing, like fever, is a protective reflex, which means that when our throat, trachea or bronchi are stimulated by some secretions or foreign bodies, coughing is caused in order to protect the smooth flow of the respiratory tract. What should I do if my baby has a cough? The most common cause of cough is a cold. If your baby has only a mild cough with little phlegm and is in good spirits, you can first go to the hospital and observe at home, and you can give him over-the-counter Chinese medicine such as pediatric cold granules. In the case of phlegm, you can use Mucosolvan or Ambroxol, which are phlegmolytic drugs or nebulized methods to dissolve phlegm. If your baby has been coughing for several days and the condition is still worsening, or if there is difficulty in breathing, blue lips, or an increased pulse, you should seek medical attention immediately. 2, cough accompanied by fever symptoms, temperature more than 38.5 ℃, after 24 hours of fever to take the baby to the hospital for examination; 3, baby after eating, suddenly appear violent choking cough, breath-holding, constant dry cough, to check whether there is a foreign body stuck (treatment reference: beware! These foods are easy to get stuck in the child’s throat), after emergency treatment, take the baby to the hospital for examination; baby’s cough lasts more than six weeks, may be caused by asthma, bronchial inflammation, should also promptly go to the hospital for consultation. Vomiting Vomiting can be triggered by children eating too much, or being allergic or intolerant to what they eat, or by viruses or bacteria infecting the gastrointestinal tract, or even by other diseases like otitis media, meningitis, tonsillitis, or haunting tailitis. What should I do if my baby vomits? If your baby vomits slightly and can be relieved after rest, there is no need to worry too much and fasting is not necessary. If there is a lot of vomiting, you can fast temporarily for 4-6 hours and give your baby fluids to prevent dehydration. Pediatricians recommend that after the baby has stopped vomiting for 2 hours, you can give the baby 30-60 ml of oral rehydration salts every half hour to one hour. If vomiting does not occur after 4 consecutive oral rehydration solutions, give another rehydration feeding, followed by a mixture of 30 ml of breast milk (or formula) and 30 ml of rehydration solution half an hour apart. If vomiting does not occur after two doses of the mixture, you can switch to breast milk or formula. If vomiting does not occur for 12 hours, you can switch to a normal diet. Please seek medical attention when your child has the following conditions: 1. Infants and children vomit violently and almost all the food they eat is thrown up. 2.Baby vomiting repeatedly, vomiting and diarrhea, accompanied by high fever of 38℃ or more. 3.Symptoms of dehydration, such as reduced urination, dry lips and mouth, crying but no tears, sunken eyes, excessive sleepiness, and sunken fontanelle of the baby. 4.After falling from a high place and landing or having a fever, the baby has jet vomiting and poor mental status. 5.Vomit contains fecal matter, blood, or coffee grounds, and the vomit looks yellowish green or smells like feces. 6. In addition to vomiting, the stomach is swollen and hard, and does not allow people to touch it because of pain. Warm tips: 1, despite the nausea, when taking your baby to the hospital, try to save some vomit to check. 2.When your baby vomits, you should let his head tilt to the side so that the vomit does not return to the trachea. Diarrhea The baby’s digestive system is immature and the child has diarrhea, which may be a viral infection or a bacterial infection, while more mild diarrhea is caused by indigestion, a cold stomach, inability to tolerate lactose, and allergy to food. What should I do if my baby has diarrhea? If the diarrhea is caused by cold, parents should pay attention to keep the abdomen warm and also massage the baby’s abdomen clockwise to regulate it. If the diarrhea occurs after eating complementary foods, you can suspend the complementary foods and then observe the baby’s stool situation. In autumn and winter, if your baby has egg-flake soup-like stools, he or she may be infected with rotavirus, so you can take probiotics and montelukast for mediation. If the baby is severely dehydrated, oral rehydration salts are needed. If your baby has mucus or bloody stools in summer, it is possible that he or she has a bacterial infection and can be treated with antibiotics. If your child has the following conditions, please seek medical attention: 1. diarrhea persists for more than a week; 2. blood mixed with stool, like tar or jam, is evident; 3. there are signs of dehydration (reference: these 4 symptoms of diarrhea in babies should be beware); 4. your baby is depressed and drowsy, even though the number of stools is not much and there is no fever, you need to send him to the hospital immediately. Warm tips: If parents do not want to take their children to the hospital, you can let the baby poop in a clean box, with plastic bags, sealed, and sent to the hospital for examination within 1 hour. If the stool specimen has pus and blood, the pus and mucus part should be picked out. Modern medicine is always expected to be infinitely high, and we all expect to be able to get rid of the disease when we arrive at the hospital, expecting the doctor to return to us, because life is priceless, not to mention the child who represents hope. But as parents, our responsibility is not only to send our children to the hospital, but also to improve our own general knowledge of child care, to look at the development of the disease reasonably and objectively, and to help our babies fight the disease while improving their resistance, perhaps more parents need to do.