Yanshan County People’s Hospital, Hebei Province Liu Lijing 2014-07-30 08:49:46 | Source: Health News As a nurse, whenever I go to and from work and see parents holding their children who are receiving infusions, I feel an inexplicable anxiety and heartache in my heart, and the anxiety from parents also deeply infects me. Cui Wencheng of the Department of Pediatrics at Jinan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Some time ago, my brother’s 9-month-old grandson had a fever and called me in the morning to say, “He started to burn last night, up to 39°C. He had already taken antipyretics at night, and now he is 38.3°C again, not coughing, not eating well, and crying more than once.” I said, “Bring the child to the hospital to see.” The doctor inquired about the condition and gave a listening and checking examination, and said to me, “The child’s stool is normal, but the throat is a little red now, take some medicine and pay attention to the palms of the hands and feet for blisters and the mouth for ulcers.” In the afternoon, the fever reached 38.8℃ again, I told my sister-in-law to give him a bath first, and then take antipyretic medicine if it didn’t work. The interval between taking antipyretics was greater than 4 hours. After work, I went straight to my brother’s house, and the child’s temperature was always above 38°C, reaching 39.2°C by 10:00 pm. My nephew-in-law said to me, “Aunt, why don’t we give the child an infusion?” I said to her, “Don’t rush the infusion, let’s follow the doctor’s advice, give him medicine from the anus, the child is crying, but generally speaking, the spirit is okay, and not hand, foot and mouth disease and measles, the infusion will enter the body particles, no good for the child, rectal drug absorption than intramuscular injection is faster, is second only to intravenous infusion, inhalation, sublingual route of treatment, give He drinks more water, let’s observe and see.” Then I used a 5 ml syringe, sucked on anti-inflammatory pain, flumethasone, removed the scalp needle and gently inserted the scalp hose into the anus with the upper medicine. At the same time do a warm water bath to avoid continued rise in body temperature and wait for the drugs to take effect. Observe the temperature closely, and after half an hour the temperature began to drop gradually. The next morning the child did not have a fever and took the medication on time. In the afternoon he had another fever and ate a meal of antipyretic medication and his temperature was normal. On the third day, a red rash appeared on the child’s scalp and neck, and when he went to the pediatrician, he was told that it was a pediatric emergency rash and that he could take some anti-allergy medication if he was itchy. After a few more days, the rash subsided and the child was cured. Looking back on the whole process, if I hadn’t insisted, the child would have suffered from several stitches and the family would have been distressed, tired and anxious. My niece-in-law gratefully said to me, “Auntie, thanks to you, otherwise we would have had to go to the hospital for an infusion.” I told her, “It is normal for children to have minor illnesses and calamities as they grow up, and we can only rely on the doctor for timely diagnosis and treatment, not stubbornly think that infusion is good for any problem, which parents and doctors are in the same mood, all looking forward to the timely recovery of their children’s illnesses. But if we ask for infusion for the child, the doctor if you refuse, it will make parents very annoyed, do not understand, and even anger at the doctor, in fact, hurt or themselves.”