Children get sick very often and at different ages, so every parent has repeatedly faced with the seemingly unpleasant phenomenon as the rise in body temperature in your child.
But if the temperature is 37.5 ° C is not particularly worried about the baby household, the temperature close to 39 ° C starts to wreak havoc, especially if the child is very small. It is important to know how to reduce the heat and when you need emergency medical intervention.
Why the temperature rises?
body temperature - a protective reaction of the organism to get into it various kinds of pathogens. In order to help neutralize the body, such as "gone", it viruses, the brain sends a signal to the production of a particular protein - interferon, which is time and temperature generated in the future. The higher the temperature, the greater the amount of interferon generates our body.
But the rise in temperature occurs not only in contact with "strangers" in the human body, it can be defensive reaction to overheating, preventive vaccination, allergic diseases, nervosa, on teething etc.
Features of "children's" temperature
In the first days and months of life of the constant temperature at all hard to say, because its heat exchange still is not similar with the generated adult organism. The temperature of the baby can safely be increased to 37,5 ° C, but not all and not always so desirable periodically measure the temperature of the baby in a healthy state, in order to know its normal temperature.
Additionally, each child suffers temperature differently if one can continue to sporting and at 38,5 ° C, the other at 37,5 ° C completely exhausted and almost losing consciousness, so "universal" rules, when it should begin to "rescue" medication through there, but the basic rules of behavior for the organism was able to begin to lose heat not only exist, but simply vital in such situations.
If your child has a fever
Theoretically, there are two versions of "getting rid" of the body of excess heat:
• its evaporation through sweat;
• through warming inhaled air.
From this and follow the basic rules of behavior at elevated temperatures for both children and adults:
- Drink plenty of warm (and fundamentally warm, as hot will provoke even greater temperature and to cool the body will spend their own strength, for its heating). Desirably, these beverages bottled water was clean with no gas, the infusion of raisins or dried fruits or a savory compote. If a child refuses to drink it literally desoldering of a teaspoon - liquid must necessarily be ingested;
- maintain optimum temperature in the flat, preferably 18 ° C;
- control humidity, especially in winter, as the central heating dry out the air, and with it, and mucous membranes, which leads to unpleasant consequences and complications;
- baby wear in temperature - not supercooled and not overheating it (Pajamas suit light);
- at a sufficiently high temperature to wipe the baby warm water within 34 ° C;
- do not feed the child by force, it is better to give the maximum drink.
As the heat knock
If all the measures taken, and the temperature continues to hold, it is time to help the body antipyretics. When and how to give fever-reducing medications:
• If the temperature exceeds 38.6 °, and all of the above steps do not help, you should give your child paracetamol, having studied the dosage carefully. But there are children who are very poorly tolerate lower temperatures, so they can give antipyretic before;
• If the temperature is not subsided, it should be possible to give ibuprofen or any drugs to which it is included;
• It is important to remember that and Paracetamol and Ibuprofen can be given up to four times a day, but these alternate two drugs with each other as possible, so as much as you can give antipyretic eight times over day;
• Syrup is absorbed much faster than the candles, but candles a "long-playing". There is one feature - a candle can not act in a very high temperature due to spasm of blood vessels, so it is better, especially at night, when the temperature rises as much as possible, to first give a syrup, and as soon as she starts to fall, light a candle, so you can more or less normal "hold" night;
• There are cases when "does not take" anything because of spasm of the mucous, then a shot is needed, which can make the doctor;
• antipyretics also recommended for respiratory insufficiency and in diseases of the nervous system.
What absolutely can not do
There are a number of "ancillary" activities very questionable benefit. They originated in the days of our grandmothers, when doctors and drugs were a big problem, and still portrayed as the commonplaces of tips, but in practice do more harm than good:
- You can not wipe the baby with vinegar and vodka. This can lead to the poisoning of the body, as the substances deeply penetrate the open pores;
- can not wipe the cold water, as can occur vasospasm. The body is cooled from above, and is stored in the heat - it can be quite dangerous;
- you can not give your child aspirin and analgin, destructive as they affect the liver.
Be careful and vigilant, especially at higher temperatures without any symptoms. In these cases, it is imperative to see a doctor, and I repeat: it is important to remember that antipyretic drugs generally take effect within 30-40 minutes. And even if the child has all signs of a viral disease, but after this time there is no improvement, then without the help of a doctor in this situation can not do. Be healthy!
