The increased body temperature at the small child brings many alarms and disorders to parents. It arises at inflammatory diseases, when overheating or can be reaction of a children's organism to a teething.
It is required to you
- The thermometer, syrup or candles with paracetamol, a diaper or a towel.
Instruction
1. First of all establish the temperature increase reason at the kid. If it appeared as a result of a viral infection, do not seek to take measures at once. Temperature in this case - protective reaction of an organism, at a hyperthermia perishes the majority of viruses. If it does not exceed 38 degrees, it can be not reduced. The exception is made by children with a convulsive syndrome, with neurologic violations and with pathology of warm or respiratory systems.
2. At temperature increase at the kid create it comfortable conditions. Take off a diaper, change clothes for light clothes. Do not wrap up it, at small children the mechanisms of a thermolysis are in a stage of formation and it is impossible to overheat them. Air the room, temperature in it has to be not higher than 20 degrees.
3. It is possible to bring down temperature at the child by means of rubdowns. Moisten a terry towel with cool water and put on a forehead to the kid. Or for 15 minutes wrap up the child's legs in the diaper moistened with water of room temperature.
4. It is possible to normalize temperature by means of medicamentous means. For children about one year medicines on the basis of paracetamol are recommended, it is safest for kids. Choose a form of introduction of medicine depending on a condition of the child. If it has a vomiting, put rectal candles with medicine. If a diarrhea — give syrup or the tablet dissolved in water. Attentively read the instruction to febrifugal medicine and use the corresponding age dosages. Consider that medicine cannot be given to the child more often than 4 times a day and more than 3 days in a row.
5. If by means of these methods it is not possible to reduce temperature at the child, or other symptoms joined, immediately see a doctor.