Why the kid has a strong heat? Each parent asked this question throughout the entire period of growing of the kid. Especially very high temperature and lack of the qualified medical care near at hand causes panic.
There is a set of the reasons which at children temperature climbs:
- teething,
- various diseases, for example, such as pneumonia or meningococcal infection,
- banal SARS or flu.
Let's not go into details of analysis of the causes of temperature at the child, and we will stop on assistance at high temperature.
First of all it is extremely important to distinguish "pink" and "white" fevers as tactics of assistance to the child depends on it:
"Pink" fever is when the child red, hands, legs, the head and a trunk, hot to the touch, the child often breathes, thirsts and if temperature very high, then can become sluggish and refuse meal. "White" fever is when the child has a high temperature (hothead), hands and legs cold (blue), the child is shivering, he tries to muffle more warmly.
By the general rule if the child is healthy, i.e. has no chronic diseases, does not stay on the dispensary registry, he is ill not more often than 5 times a year and his parents are healthy too, at "pink" type of fever it can begin to reduce temperature at achievement 39ºС.
If the child newborn, i.e. from the birth and up to 1 month, first of all you have to call the doctor, and all children aged till 1 year, by order of the Ministry of Health have to be directed to the doctor at any disease.
Before arrival of the doctor at "pink" fever you can make the following:
1. To cool the kid physically (for any age): blowing of the child air to give drink of room temperature to force it to drink, give gradually, on 1 teaspoon, but it is frequent, each five minutes, rubdown by semi-spirit solution (vodka) of room temperature, it is necessary to rub off around a neck, in armpits, elbow bends, in a groin, under knee joints – everywhere where there pass large vessels. It is necessary to rub off plentifully moistened fabric, so that from it semi-spirit solution flew down. As soon as dries up, to rub off again.
One more effective way it is plentiful to moisten the head to the child with water of room temperature, so that the head was all wet, as under a water jet. As soon as roots of hair dry up, to moisten again and so three times. It is effective as, the center of thermal control is in a brain, and thus it can be "cooled". It is possible to put a bubble with ice on the head, but not always it is near at hand. It is necessary to hold it no more than 15 minutes, in advance wrapped in a towel.
2. Medicamentous therapy: at newborn age at a temperature the choice of medicines is extremely limited. It is possible to give only paracetamol in a dose on one reception of 10-15 mg on 1 kg of weight of the child with an interval of 6-8 hours. For example, the weight of the child 5600, so of paracetamol can be taken 56-84 mg on one reception. Figures can be rounded to 60-80 mg. It is possible to measure, as a rule, the measured syringe which is applied to various syrups on the basis of paracetamol, or to use candles with a ready dosage according to age. Also paracetamol is produced in the form of tablets and drops.
The help at "white" fever:
When developing "white" fever, at a fever, physically it is not necessary to cool as vessels on extremities of a spazmirovana (are narrowed), the thermolysis unproductive, i.e. all heat developed by the child, remains in a body, at application of physical ways of cooling the vessels will be narrowed even more and respectively the thermolysis to decrease, the condition of the kid will worsen. Therefore at once it is possible to give paracetamol in an age dosage and to call the doctor. At this type the fever can cool only the head as it is described above!
From 3 months the ibuprofen in a dose of 5-10 mg on 1 kg of body weight, with an interval of 6-8 hours is resolved. No other medicines, without medical prescription, should be given to children, neither in 10 years, nor in 15!
The biggest mistake of parents which was fixed from Soviet period it to give to children aspirin (acetilsalicylic acid) and analginum. Aspirin is contraindicated to children up to 15 years! It can cause destructions of a liver and destruction of a brain, and also to damage mucous digestive tract, to cause exacerbation of stomach ulcer and a duodenum.
Dear parents, remember 4 main rules at a temperature at the child:
1. The main thing to define fever type "white" or "pink"; 2. To provide the child with plentiful drink; 3. To give first of all paracetamol, and since three months an ibuprofen; 4. Not to give aspirin and analginum.
After you learned about rendering emergency aid, there is a wish to tell about importance of providing the drinking mode to the kid from tempratury. Loss of liquid at high temperature at the child, through skin and breath, can be 52-75% of the total number of all water losses. In other words he can lose more waters through skin at a hyperthermia (fever), than through an urinary system that can lead very quickly the child to dehydration and development, very serious complication, such as neurotoxicosis!
Remember 4 simple rules offered by us and with your child everything will be as it should be!