Children’s Fever forced cooling is not scientific

Fever is caused due to pathogens (bacteria, viruses, mycoplasma, etc.). When these bacteria invade the body, the body’s defense system to protect the body, can make a variety of protecting the body’s response to resist pathogens, fever is one of them to resist reaction.

The normal body temperature of children there are individual differences, especially in newborns and infants, due to development of central body temperature is not perfect, easily affected by environmental factors. Normal body temperature at 36-37 ℃ in children between 2-6 points lower morning. 5-7 pm point higher. When the body temperature at 37-38 ℃ for low-heat ,38-39 ℃ to moderate fever, high fever ,39-41 ℃ over 41 ℃ for ultra-high heat. Continuous fever over 2 weeks for long-term fever.

Usually a fever at 38 degrees below the proposed physical cooling:

More ventilation, attention to cooling to maintain room temperature at 21-23 ℃.

◆ Let children stay in bed for more sleep, to ensure adequate sleep conducive to disease recovery. Open-coated, or take off too many clothes, clothing large, Jiyong quilts parcel;

◆ physical cooling the amount of time the body temperature every half hour, with antipyretics after 1 hour the amount of time for each temperature, to observe the effects of drugs. If there is sweating, pale, weak and so collapse phenomena, it is timely fed sugar and with the doctor.

◆ forehead with ice-packs.

◆ high fever and a warm bath, will children be placed in warm water bath 5-10 minutes, then use a big towel to dry the body and gently massage until the skin to redness; can also be used in warm water at about 34 ℃ to adults and wrist the inside of the skin will not burn is appropriate to give children a bath, scrub focus on the forehead, neck, armpits, groin and limbs, the whole sponge bath time for 10-15 minutes, children body temperature can be reduced to 38 ℃.

Generally the temperature above 39 ℃ before use antipyretics; but within the 3-year-old infants and young children with fever should be the first physical cooling method, whether or fever, parents should bring the child to find out as much as possible causes of fever, see See your baby has a cold is a cold or viral infection, forced cooling is unscientific. At the same time attention is paid to drink plenty of water baby, Victoria c fruit juices. Nutritious drink soup, eat light, easily digested food.