Tips and How to Dealing Fever in Children

Tips and How to Dealing Fever in Children - Fever is not a disease, but showing symptoms of a disease. For example, because of cough, runny nose, sore throat, diarrhea, other infections of the gastrointestinal tract, and respiratory tract infections. Most parents panic if their fast (especially toddlers) have a fever.

You have to remember that a fever is the body's mechanism against a disease or infection that is usually caused by viruses, bacteria, and so on. Kids say the fever if his temperature above the normal threshold (greater than 37.2 degrees Celsius). This fever seems that the body temperature slightly hotter than usual and sometimes accompanied by chills.

Infection in children is usually caused by viruses or bacteria. Examples of fever when the child is suffering from the flu or a cold. The presence of this virus, the child's body naturally resisted. Antibiotics can not kill viruses, so antibiotics are not cold medicines. You do not need to give antibiotics in children with fever caused by a virus or due to the flu. In general cases, the temperature of the hot body will help prevent the spread of the virus.

If this is your child's body temperature is below 39 degrees Celsius, no seizure, the child is not too fussy, and no vomiting.

Tips on Dealing Fever in Children

Several attempts to do to cope with the child's fever as follows:

1. Periodically monitor the body temperature using a special thermometer for children.
2. Giving fluids in sufficient quantities to children to avoid dehydration.
3. Consuming a balanced nutrition to strengthen the immune system of children.
4. Attention to the circulation of the room, so as not stuffy.
5. Giving fever-lowering drugs when the child's temperature exceeds 38 degrees Celsius. If the body temperature is normal, drug administration was stopped.
6. Compress the child with warm water, especially when the child's body temperature reached 39 degrees Celsius. Compress can be placed on the forehead, abdomen, or thigh folds and armpits. Warm water makes the blood vessels in the skin dilate and the edge of the open pores of the body resulting in faster evaporation.
7. Children wearing clothes that absorb sweat. If the child was shivering, covered children, but soon released back when shivering was lost.
8.  Immediately bring the child to the doctor, if the fever does not go down soon.

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