The hyperthermia is pathological option of fever. Inadequate and fast temperature increase of a body which is followed by metabolic frustration, violation of microcirculation in an organism and quickly accruing dysfunction of internals is noted.
The hyperthermia reasons at children
Both infectious, and non-infectious diseases can be the reasons of high temperature. Fever is caused by viral, mikoplazmenny, bacterial, parasitic, chlamydial and fungal infections. The hyperthermia at children often arises at sharp respiratory and viral diseases, flu and intestinal infections. Causative agents of illnesses get to a children's organism through a digestive tract, respiratory and parenteral ways. Also such infections as herpetic, toksoplazmenny and Cytomegaloviral can be transmitted to the child at the birth or in utero. High temperature is followed also after introduction of vaccines.
Pathologies of the central nervous system can serve as the cause of fever. In that case it will be impossible to normalize body temperature. Doctors call such hyperthermia malignant, and the sick child needs urgently to be examined at the neuropathologist.
Hyperthermia symptoms
The hyperthermia is divided into "red" and "white". Most often "red" fever occurs in children. It can be determined by the following symptoms: - skin of the child has a reddish shade; - also the moist body is hotter; - lower and upper extremities warm; - heartbeat and breath is speeded up. But despite such signs, the kid does not cry, is not apathetic, is not oppressed and can continue to play. More dangerous type of a hyperthermia is "white" fever. It has such symptoms: - slackness, nothing is interesting to the child; - the fever, the patient complains of cold; - pale integuments; - legs and hands cold; - lips get color is more cyanotic. If not to render to the child the timely help, spasms and nonsense can begin.
Treatment of a hyperthermia at children
At "red" fever the little patient needs to give cool, plentiful drink. Sweet and carbonated drinks are forbidden. Best of all cowberry and cranberry fruit drinks, dogrose broth, the cooled tea with a lemon segment approach. It is impossible to wrap up the child, on the contrary, it is necessary to undress the patient. Temperature indoors has to be not higher than 20 wasps. For normalization of temperature it is necessary to give to the child febrifugal medicine on the basis of paracetamol - Panadol, Kalpol, Tsefekon, or an ibuprofen - "Nurofen". At a "white" hyperthermia the patient needs warm and plentiful drink. It is surely recommended to pound and mass cold extremities before emergence of redness. It is possible to wrap up the child. For decrease in temperature it is necessary to give febrifuge and a tablet of "No-Spa" for removal of an angiospasm. The dosage has to correspond to age of the patient. If in 15 minutes the condition of the child does not improve, it is necessary to call ambulance crew.