The elevated temperature in a child is a natural concern to parents, hurrying as fast as possible to find out the cause of her appearance, applying the well-known algorithms for solving the problem. It is believed that an increase in body temperature, indicating that the penetration into the human body of foreign agents, thereby starting the activation of the body's own resources, which causes symptoms such as increased temperature.
But when the mercury drops below 36 degrees, then talking about in this case, the infection does not go. There are several other causes of such temperature, as well as the sequence of actions that must be applied in such situations.
• Congenital hypothermia is quite rare, but, nevertheless, if the child in a healthy state, followed by a good appetite, sound sleep, is replaced by physical activity, at birth observed temperature 35-35,9 degrees, then the worry not worth it. This is a peculiar feature of the baby's body, which may remain with them for life.
• Effect of fever-reducing medications can also cause unusual for a child to hypothermia, and lasting up to several days. This state of the baby indicates a weakening of the body due to this illness. In this case medical care is hardly necessary, since a few days the body can recover itself.
• Day or night's sleep also affects the rate of mercury, therefore, to measure the temperature at just awakened the child is not necessary - it can be properly understated and hardly reflect the objective state of the organism crumbs.
• Low temperatures may signal a banal fatigue the child, so the first time detecting changes in temperature in the body, we should pay close attention to daily routine child. Look closely, not too loaded, he studies and visits to clubs, whether enough time he spends in the open air, whether he moves a lot or most of his time behind the gadgets, whether the child enough hours sleeps. In other cases, at a certain chronic stress, the body may provide signals on its failure by lowering body temperature. This is only the first bells, etc., in the continuation of wrong mode of the day, the body can "grow a" chronic illness requiring medical intervention.
• vasoconstrictor drugs, sometimes used is not according to the instructions, can also cause a sharp drop in the baby's body temperature. And, at first glance seem innocuous drops, they are, after all, may have very general concern implications, entailing even loss of consciousness. To avoid this, you should be attentive to the instructions attached to the drug, especially when it comes to children.
• Low temperatures may begin to appear during puberty (12-16 years). The child becomes drowsy, irritable, appears pale skin. Such symptoms indicate too rapid and uneven development of the body's systems. Teenagers can even periodically on this background to lose consciousness. After a certain period of time such symptoms gradually disappear.
• If these symptoms long enough period of time, this may indicate the beginning of any disease of the internal organs, so tighten this is not necessary, it is better to pass timely medical examination. Most often a manifestation of hypothermia is indicative of disorders of the thyroid gland or the primary manifestations of the onset of diabetes. Timely access to specialists will help avoid severe consequences.
• In contrast to the loss of strength in the child after infectious or viral diseases, the body immune system failure may occur, which also starts with a lower temperature body. And if a simple weakening of the body in a short time easily enough restored, about disorders of the immune system should consult with experts who will appoint appropriate treatment.
• relatively long period of time, hypothermia can occur in children and particularly in adolescents with chronic deficiency of vitamins and minerals. Most often it comes to iron deficiency anemia. In order to avoid this, it is necessary to monitor the proper and balanced diet, and avoid depleting the various diets, especially in adolescence.
• Enough rare setback factor is the poisoning, but, nevertheless, some toxins that enter the body to cause hypothermia, followed by chills.
• Some types of hidden diseases, such as brain or disorders of the endocrine system, may also be often accompanied by a decrease in temperature, you should pay careful attention to and seek immediate doctor.
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