Autumn and winter season – a time of cases of flu. If at flu at the child temperature rose, you should not panic and immediately to force down it. It is necessary to take measures if the mark reached 38.5 °.
It is required to you
- - damp towel;
- - children's panadol;
- - lemon.
Instruction
1. At a temperature over 39 ° wrap up the sick child for short time in a damp sheet or at least put a damp towel on a forehead.
2. The simplest method to bring down heat at the child is to make rubdown by means of the damp towel moistened with slightly warm water or weak solution of vinegar. Water after evaporates, will increase return of heat. Do not use vodka or alcohol-containing solutions. They render irritant action and can cause toxic reaction in the kid. Later cover the patient with a thin blanket, and put on legs to it warm socks.
3. At temperature increase the organism loses more moisture, than usually. Therefore in such state the child should drink as much as possible. Give it plentiful warmish, but not cold drink: boiled water or tea with a lemon, vegetable infusions for the best sweating, fruit drink. Do not give anything hot. It is necessary to drink to the sick child often, but small drinks. Otherwise a large number of drunk can cause vomiting.
4. Give to the kid children's panadol which is issued in the form of powders, tablets, suspensions, syrups, candles. At the medicines containing panadol, different names and at them, as a rule, a few side effects. To you pharmacists in pharmacy will help to calculate a single dose. Therapeutic effect of medicine at intake is shown in half an hour-hour and lasts from three to five hours. At introduction of candles it will become better for the child in 3 hours, but the effect lasts longer. Do not give to the sick child the aspirin and medicines containing acetilsalicylic acid. They have destructive impact on cells of a liver. This medicine is contraindicated at viral diseases to children 15 years are younger. Also it is not recommended to force down heat various analgetics, because of their side effects.