Do not put fever first when the child catch cold
Many parents see the child had a fever on the anxious, eager to give a child fever. People’s Liberation Army 304 Hospital, Yu Su-ming, deputy director of pediatrics, in fact, a child with a fever is not a bad thing, not to rush fever.
Children with fever as a low-heat temperature 37.5-38 ℃ for the ,38-39 ℃ heat, 39 ℃ above high fever, more than 41 ℃ for ultra-high heat. Fever is a virus or bacteria invade the body produces a reaction will help destroy invading viruses and bacteria, thus contributing to children’s normal growth and development. Body temperature does not exceed 38 ℃ in general not to rush to bring down a fever, especially in the absence of a clear diagnosis before the fever if the blind could cover up the illness interfere with the diagnosis of the disease. When the temperature reached 39 ℃ above will result in a doctor under the guidance of fever. 4% -12% of the children occur when high fever convulsions, recurrent seizures may cause brain damage, is also a precursor to the performance of some epilepsy may also cause other hazards. Thus, where a history or family history of febrile seizures sick child, once the heat treatment should be immediately given to fever.
To the children, when fever, 38.5 ℃ below the best choice for physical cooling, such as multi-drinking water, warm water plus alcohol sponge bath and so on. All the anti-fever medicines such as paracetamol, aspirin and so compound that contains caffeine, phenacetin and other components, have more side effects, infant neural inhibitory mechanisms are not yet perfect, high fever, when to use, easy to induce convulsions, but also a result of a large number of sweating caused by collapse, or even due to the accumulation of bilirubin in the blood of free jaundice. The same time, the digestive system and also harm the liver and kidney function, If I have to use anti-fever medicine, please use under the guidance of a doctor.
Some parents think that children with a cold fluid faster than the anti-fever medication, one to the hospital requires doctors to the child fluids, and requires antibiotics. Yu Su-ming, in fact, mostly a cold virus infection, antibiotics, no effect on the virus. Our principle is not an injection can be medicine, can not injection fluids, because the fluid can sometimes cause side effects. When taking antiviral drugs can not be cooling, occurs secondary bacterial infection, blood tests was significantly higher white blood cell count, there bronchitis or pneumonia, may consider the use of antibiotics. However, no matter what drugs should be careful about dosage shall not be too large, taking time should not be too long to give a child medication during the water in order to facilitate the absorption and excretion of drugs to reduce the drugs on the body of the poisoned children.