How much do you know about pediatric fever?

It is natural that parents are often very nervous when their infant has a fever for the first time. Fever is something that parents can feel, it is a symptom, and what causes the fever is unknown to the parents, which makes them even more anxious. At this point, it becomes the parents’ greatest wish that their child’s fever goes down quickly. This makes some parents ignore the disease itself and focus on reducing the fever. 1. Infants have a greater tolerance for fever Infants have a greater tolerance for fever. Therefore, parents should not speculate whether the baby has a fever based on its performance, nor should they use their hands to feel it. 2. Fever consumes physical energy Some infants have a high body temperature and are in good spirits. But fever consumes physical energy, so let the infant sleep more, drink more water, and move less. The air inside is fresh and well ventilated, and the room temperature should not be too high. Do not overdress your child. Infants with fever must wear less and cover less to increase heat dissipation. 3, hormones to reduce fever is not advisable hormones used with antipyretic drugs, can make the body temperature drop quickly, the role of up to 1 ~ 2 days, and sometimes make the body temperature too low. Although the body temperature has dropped, but only to treat the symptoms, not the root cause, but also to cover up the symptoms of the disease. If it is a simple cold, it may be better, and the cold symptoms are reduced, and the parents are happy. However, parents do not think that this will reduce the infant’s own resistance to disease, cold once, the infant will have immunity to the infected virus; if you use hormones, will reduce this ability. 4.Physical cooling is important Infants’ thermoregulatory center is not well developed, their heat dissipation ability is poor, and their response to antipyretic drugs is poor. Therefore, physical cooling is an important antipyretic method for infants. The most commonly used physical cooling method of alcohol baths in the past has been questioned as being less safe than warm water baths. For infants, alcohol baths are not appropriate and warm water is sufficient. Babies can be given a bath with warm water, or they can be given a bath in warm water, which should be 1 to 2°C lower than their body temperature in order to have a cooling effect. This cooling method can be used repeatedly several times. Covering less, or even not covering, and taking off clothes is also a method of physical cooling, mainly to increase heat dissipation. When your child has a fever, don’t forget about physical cooling. “Covering” is the human factor that causes high fever in infants. Parents must not cover the child, infants can not be covered by sweating to cool down, only the more covered the more fever, and eventually lead to febrile convulsions. This point, parents should keep in mind. 5, the correct choice of antipyretic medicine Antipyretic medicine is not the best, the role is similar. The use of antipyretic drugs, only to reduce the discomfort brought to the child fever, to avoid the injury of high body temperature on the baby, to protect the baby’s brain (high fever, available cool water pillow), to prevent febrile convulsions. While taking antipyretic drugs, but also to treat the diseases that cause fever. 6, expensive is not necessarily the best antipyretic medicine is not the more expensive the better, effective antipyretic medicine for your infant, is the best choice. 7.Injections are not the fastest way to reduce fever Injections are not necessarily the best way to give medication, and they do not necessarily achieve the effect of reducing fever quickly, with oral antipyretics taking about the same time to work. And oral antipyretics will not give children the pain of injections. 8, feeding difficulties can choose anal medication vomiting or medication crying feeding difficulties, choose anal medication, is also very good. The effect is very fast and the baby is not in pain.