Baby fever knowledge and treatment misunderstandings In the process of coping with baby fever, some mothers have some misunderstandings. The child fever misunderstanding one: fever is sick Lele mom to Lele after feeding, found Lele red, a touch of the brain seems to be hot, and quickly brought the thermometer a measure – 37.5 ℃! She quickly took out the pediatric cold and flu medicine at home and was ready to give it to Lele. At that moment, Lele’s sister-in-law, who is a nurse, came to visit and stopped her in time. My sister-in-law said that Lele’s fever was only temporary, and was caused by overdressing, coupled with the exertion of breastfeeding. After loosening her clothes and rubbing her face with warm water, Lele’s temperature soon returned to normal. Doctor’s words: Children are prone to fever when they are sick, but fever does not necessarily mean that they are sick, because the child’s body temperature is affected by many factors, such as breastfeeding, exercise, crying, overdressed and other reasons can make the child’s body temperature rise to 37.5 ℃, and occasionally up to 38 ℃, especially newborns or infants are more likely to be affected by the above conditions. In addition, the method and time of temperature measurement also affects the true value of the measured temperature, such as the axillary table, mouth table, anal table measured value of about 0.5 ℃ difference in turn, that is, the axillary table is the lowest, the anal table is the highest. Measurement of axillary temperature should be 10 minutes for the best time. Therefore, the child’s body temperature is temporarily elevated, as long as the general condition is good, and there is no self-conscious symptoms, can be considered normal. However, when the child’s body temperature is higher than 38.5 ℃, it should be taken seriously. Children’s fever myth 2: fever cured Tao Tao due to high fever, coughing and was diagnosed by the doctor as bronchopneumonia admitted to the hospital. After 3 days of drip, Tao Tao no longer fever, coughing significantly reduced, Tao Tao mom that the child has no fever, the disease should be basically cured, yelling to be discharged. Although the doctor repeatedly explained that the child’s disease is not well, but she still took Tao Tao discharged. Unexpectedly, the day after discharge, Tao Tao again fever, coughing even heavier. Doctor’s words: In life, there are many parents who mistakenly think that the fever will go away, often leading to the child’s fever again or the aggravation of the original disease and delayed treatment. Fever is only a single symptom of a certain disease, the fever only indicates that the body’s heat production and dissipation of the regulatory mechanism back to normal, is not equal to the disease is cured. Only by removing the cause of the disease and fundamentally correcting the basis of the disease, it means that the disease is cured. The first thing you need to do is to get rid of the problem, and then you’ll be able to get rid of the problem. Doudou’s mom looked at Doudou’s increasingly thin face, heartbroken, specially went to the market to buy some fresh pork back to make soup. Although Doudou is not willing to eat, but still in the mother’s soft and hard under the drink a big bowl. At night, Doudou started a high fever again, vomiting and diarrhea, crying and restless. Doctor’s words: High fever can also increase the metabolism of various nutrients and oxygen consumption, so it is right to pay attention to supplementing the child’s nutrition. However, it is wrong to give your child broth to replenish nutrients. Because high fever reduces the activity of digestive enzymes, affecting the child’s digestive function, at this time to eat greasy food, not only can not be absorbed, but will cause vomiting or diarrhea, aggravate the body’s lack of water. At this time, the child should be given a light, easy to digest diet, such as porridge, vegetable soup, fruit juice, egg soup and so on. In addition, the baby should be given enough water to drink, preferably salt water. This can not only replenish the lost water and electrolytes, but also achieve the purpose of cooling. Child fever misunderstanding four: worry about fever will “burn the brain” There is a folk saying called “burn the brain”, in fact, burn the brain is not a simple fever, but due to the little baby suffered from encephalitis, meningitis and other diseases caused by. Generally speaking, fever is only one of the symptoms of these diseases, and the real impact on the brain is a serious infection of the brain. Fever is a warning sign that the child is sick, and is also an automatic response of the body to improve resistance. The focus of fever treatment is to explore what disease is causing the fever and then treat it, rather than immediately reducing the fever to a normal body temperature. Although moderately given antipyretic drugs, can reduce the fever sick uncomfortable, but can not shrink the course of the disease, mild fever can instead enhance the effectiveness of the immune system, therefore, the fever is not entirely bad! Medication Myth 1: baby fever must use antipyretic medicine Fever is a variety of diseases caused by the body’s defensive response. Research shows that the body is responsible for phagocytosis of bacteria white blood cells, in the body temperature increases (38 ℃ ~ 39 ℃) its phagocytic ability to strengthen. Therefore, when a child’s temperature rises due to a cold or other infectious diseases, it is not wise to use all possible methods to immediately lower the temperature to within the normal range, because this may reduce the resistance of the child itself. It is common for many parents to give their children common antipyretics at home when they have a fever. The mechanism of antipyretics is to paralyze the central nervous system to bring down the body temperature, and at the same time to promote the sweat to accelerate the body temperature down. But so the immune system has not been awakened, completely non-resistant, so that the external evil in the body to accumulate, but also increase the difficulty of treatment. Many children use fever-reducing drugs after repeated episodes, a fever higher than once, all because the cause of the disease in the body can not be removed, the central nervous system woke up again to strengthen the resistance, repeated so, the consequences will be unimaginable. However, it is worth parents’ attention that the use of fever-reducing drugs, especially do not overdose, sometimes parents “cooling heart” thought that with a little more drugs, you can quickly lower the temperature. In fact, when the overdose, often can cause too violent reaction to the effect of drugs, such as the British government recently issued a drug warning: there are 69 kinds of commonly used cold medicines contain 15 kinds of ingredients that may lead to side effects, which may “trigger allergic reactions, cause hallucinations and interference with sleep, etc.”, children even have a risk of death. Misconception 2: To make the baby cold fast, use antibiotics Colds are a common cause of fever in children, mostly caused by viral infections. Viral infections caused by fever with antibiotics is ineffective. But now there is such a phenomenon: fever immediately with a variety of antibiotics, it seems to use antibiotics on the safe, in fact, antibiotics can not antiviral, can not reduce the fever, on the contrary, increase the cost of medicines, and may produce antibiotic resistance, can be said to be more harm than good. Baby a fever, most parents will be anxious like ants on the hot pot, some parents also know that the child fever can be the first physical cooling, but parents often lack of confidence, for fear that “the child brain burned”, so basically immediately rushed to the hospital injection infusion. In fact, no matter what the cause of fever, body temperature is rarely more than 41 ℃, as for the brain cells can tolerate high temperature limit, may have to 41.7 ℃, the cell protein will be due to high temperature deterioration caused by irreversible damage, that is, parents are worried about the “burned brain”.