Can children drink ice water with a fever?

The child’s fever may be caused by upper respiratory tract infection, gastroenteritis, etc. Drinking ice water is not recommended and may induce or aggravate abdominal pain and other discomforts. When the child has a fever, the body temperature is higher, drinking ice water is easy to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract vasoconstriction, causing gastrointestinal spasm, may induce or aggravate abdominal pain, diarrhea and other discomforts, so it is not recommended to drink ice water. You can give your child a light and easy-to-digest diet, and increase the amount of water he or she drinks by choosing lukewarm water, diluted fruit juice, and so on. Fever will increase the child’s heart rate, respiration, bring discomfort, need to give the child in time to reduce fever, appropriate reduction of clothing, cover, reduce indoor temperature, enhance indoor ventilation, persistent high fever period can also use warm water bath, body temperature higher than 38.5 ° C when the use of ibuprofen or acetaminophen. Children with fever when the body is weak, improper diet is easy to induce gastroenteritis, need to be light and easy to digest, appropriate diversified diet to improve appetite.