Introduction: “What should I do if my baby who has never been sick has a high fever?” A baby’s first fever can often be the result of toddler rash, which is experienced by the vast majority of infants. The characteristics of toddler rash are so fierce that inexperienced parents panic and don’t know what to do with toddler rash, but in fact, toddler rash is not scary and parents can easily cope with it if they have some knowledge.
What is toddler rash
It is an acute rash infection commonly seen in infants and young children caused by human herpes virus type 6 infection. Irregular red spots appear on the back, neck and other parts of the body at the onset of the disease, with mild cold symptoms or persistent high temperature for 3-5 days and a rash appearing within 12-24 hours after the fever has subsided. Most babies will disappear the symptoms in 1-3 days. Babies will not feel itchy and will heal in about 1 week except in special cases, so there is no need to be particularly worried.
How to tell if your toddler has an emergency rash
There are two stages of acute rash in toddlers. After an incubation period of 5-15 days, the following symptoms first appear.
1. the body temperature suddenly reaches 39℃-40℃, and the fever will last for three or four days, but the child’s mental and appetite condition is relatively good.
2. the fever subsides after using antipyretic drugs, and then starts again as soon as the effect of the drugs wears off.
3.When the fever is high, most of them will have diarrhea and sugar-thin stools, while rarely having a runny nose or cough, or the symptoms are mild.
4. sometimes high fever convulsions occur, and some children also have cough, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, and ear pain.
5. Routine blood tests show a decrease in white blood cells and a significant increase in lymphocytes.
About 4 days after the onset of the disease, the child enters the second stage, at which time the symptoms are.
1.Body temperature rapidly returns to normal.
2.Tiny, clear pink blotchy rash appears, which will fade when pressed, mostly on the head and trunk, and can last for about 4 days, without pigmentation or desquamation.
3, mostly at 6-12 months of age, 50%-60% of children with the disease develop it at 8-10 months of age. Complications are rare in healthy children, but complications such as hepatitis or pneumonia may occur in immunocompromised children. Because meningitis is similar to toddler’s emergency, the doctor will do further tests on the child to rule out bacterial causes of meningitis.
The toddler emergency rash does not affect the health of the infant and will not recur after one outbreak.
How to take care of a child with emergency rash
1. stop all treatment as soon as the child’s rash is over, do not take any medication, and wait and see how the rash changes and fades.
2. let the child rest, the room should be quiet, the air should be fresh, the blanket should not be too thick too much.
3. keep the skin clean and hygienic, and often wipe off the sweat stains on the child’s body to avoid catching a cold.
4. give the child more boiled water or fruit juice water to facilitate sweating and urination to promote the discharge of toxic substances.
5. eat a liquid or semi-liquid diet
6. when the body temperature exceeds 39℃, wipe the child’s body with warm water or 50% alcohol to prevent the child from having seizures caused by high fever.
7. In order to prevent the child from getting into trouble, especially if the child has allergies, it is best not to eat fish, shrimp, eggs and other allergy-prone foods to avoid aggravating the itching of the rash, which is not conducive to the child’s rash care.
8. if the child is very restless and noisy during the rash, paracetamol can be given appropriately.
9. if the child has diarrhea, it is recommended that the child be given oral probiotics based on a controlled diet.
10. The emergency rash is not measles, there is no need to prohibit the wind, but do not go to the wind, because after all, the child has not fully recovered from the rash, it is easy to catch a cold again.
Tips: Infant emergency rash is self-healing, there is no need to use any topical medication for your child’s rash. Also, some parents ask if they can give their babies a bath, and this is possible.