Babies from childhood to adulthood, more or less some fever symptoms occur, some parents will be anxious like ants on a hot pot, everywhere to seek medical advice; some parents, just begging children to quickly reduce the fever, food, stuffing through, in fact, too much or too little, is a load on the child’s health.
What causes fever – identify the “false” phenomenon of fever in children?
There are many causes of pediatric fever, which can be broadly divided into the following three categories.
I. External factors.
Children’s body temperature is affected by the external environment, such as wearing too many clothes when it is hot, drinking too little water, room air circulation.
II. Intrinsic factors.
Sickness, cold, bronchitis, inflammation of the throat or other diseases.
Third, other factors.
Such as preventive injections, including measles, cholera, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and other reactions.
Fever is only one of the symptoms of the disease, not all of them. For fever, physicians are concerned about the impact and progress of the disease itself, but usually parents only see the appearance of the disease, such as fever, vomiting, cough, and then panic. However, parents usually only see the external appearance of the disease, such as fever, vomiting and cough, and they panic. They do not realize that the physician’s primary concern is to discover the cause of the disease and to find a complete cure, not just to reduce the fever. Therefore, in some cases, fever symptoms are allowed to continue to manifest in order to explore the true cause of the disease. Therefore, he reminds parents who love their children that they should not just ask the doctor to reduce the fever and treat the fever symptoms, but should follow the doctor’s instructions to find out the real cause of the fever and prescribe the right medicine.
Fever does not “burn the brain” – is it necessary to reduce fever?
When a baby has a fever, parents immediately freak out because of the traditional belief that a fever will burn the child’s brain. The reason for this misconception is that medical knowledge is not yet widespread and the reasons behind high fever are not clearly distinguished.
In fact, only encephalitis, meningitis and other diseases where the brain itself is damaged by the virus will hurt the intelligence or sensory functions, not fever to burn people stupid, burn deaf. She further stressed that the stability of the central temperature control of infants and young children is not as stable as that of adults, a mild viral infection may also have a high fever of 40 degrees Celsius, parents just need to know how to deal with the fever, as for the diagnosis of the cause should be left to professional physicians, do not worry too much.
According to statistics, regardless of the cause of the fever, the temperature rarely exceeds 41°C. If the temperature exceeds this, the possibility of bacterial meningitis or sepsis is higher and should be especially alert. As for the limit of high temperature that brain cells can tolerate, it may have to reach 41.7°C before the cellular proteins will deteriorate due to high temperature and cause irreversible damage, and this extreme high temperature is rarely accompanied by disease.
Because the fever itself is not so harmful to the child, the necessity of reducing the fever has been controversial for a long time. Scholars who advocate that it is not necessary to reduce fever believe that fever is a normal immune response that can help white blood cells fight bacteria, and that analyzing the type of fever can help diagnose the cause of the disease, but simply reducing fever is misleading. However, most physicians and scholars are in favor of moderate fever reduction because fever increases metabolism and causes intrinsic consumption. Patients suffer from headache, lethargy, rapid heartbeat, and are very uncomfortable; infants are easily dehydrated, and fever causes water evaporation, which is a vicious circle; the proportion of fever cramps in infants is higher, so it is unnecessary to let fever go and cause injuries.
Folk misconceptions and methods of fever reduction – the desirability and contraindications of pediatric fever care.
In summary of the above arguments, parents should have the right attitude and treat fever as a warning sign. Dr. Wen-Chung Chiu, chief of pediatric neurology, said that fever is a defensive response of the body caused by various diseases. Research shows that the body’s white blood cells, which are responsible for swallowing bacteria, strengthen their ability to swallow when the body temperature rises (38°C to 39°C). Therefore, when a child’s body temperature rises due to a cold or other infectious disease, it is not wise to use all possible methods to bring the body temperature down to the normal range immediately. This may reduce the resistance of the sick child.
Some parents may use folk methods to reduce fever, such as cold water or alcohol swabbing to reduce fever for their children, which is not appropriate. Director Song Wenju pointed out that when a baby’s hot skin suddenly touches cold water or alcohol during a fever, the baby’s reaction will be violent and may cause convulsions; and the smell of alcohol will make the toddler drowsy, as if he is drunk.
In addition, the traditional old generation’s concept of “cold to”, resulting in the general misconception that you must wear more clothes when you have a fever, Zhao Wenchong, director of the stressed, in fact, just the opposite. He said that the surface area of the skin is the largest area where the whole body can dissipate heat when you have a fever, and it has the best heat dissipation effect. If you can peel off too many clothes, a lot of body heat can be eliminated through the loose and cool appearance, and the body temperature can easily drop.
The really dangerous fever signal – baby fever whole guide.
Director Zhao Wenchong stressed that the pathological cause of baby’s fever can be big or small, serious sepsis, encephalitis meningitis, myocardial inflammation, etc., which will lead to disability or death if not treated; the lighter ones are only minor colds, which will get better by themselves even if ignored. However, it is difficult to judge the difference between these two if you are not a professional, and sometimes you have to use testing techniques to make a real difference.
When a baby has a fever, parents should not make a fuss about it, but they should not take it lightly and make it unmanageable. Parents should learn how to face it with skill, knowledge and wisdom. When a child has a fever, it can be combined with other manifestations such as rapid heartbeat, rapid breathing, extreme discomfort, loss of appetite and general weakness, and even restlessness and crying in younger babies. At this time, moderate treatment so that the body temperature is not too high is reasonable, especially with fever spasms or congenital heart disease infants and children, but also need.