Contents:
- Medical Video: How to Treat High Fever in Children
- What can be done to overcome a child's fever?
- 1. Compress with warm water
- 2. Take a warm bath
- 3. Help your child's body heat out quickly
- 4. Drink plenty of water
- 5. Eat a lot
- 6. Drink herbal tea
Medical Video: How to Treat High Fever in Children
Fever is one condition that is often experienced by children. In healthy children, fever is usually not a serious problem. Fever is a sign that the body is trying to fight an infection that wants to attack a child. Not all fever should be treated by a doctor, sometimes you can treat a child's fever with just home remedies. However, high fever makes children uncomfortable and can cause severe dehydration in children.
What can be done to overcome a child's fever?
A child is said to have a fever if his body temperature reaches 37 ° C or more. Usually the child's body temperature fluctuates during a fever, lower in the morning and higher at night. Sometimes, even children shiver at night because body temperature starts to rise. This makes the child unable to sleep well at night. This is usually what makes mothers worry.
Relax, when a child has a fever, you as a parent can take the first action in an effort to reduce child fever. You can do this at home before you decide to take it to the docte. Some fever can heal only with home care, no need to take it to the doctor.
Here are things you can do at home:
1. Compress with warm water
Compressing children with warm water may be a way parents often do to help reduce child fever. This is a method that has been practiced for generations. Actually, this method can only reduce child fever temporarily, it may even not altogether be able to reduce fever in some children. Some children may also be uncomfortable with compresses on their forehead. However, you can still do this in an effort to reduce child fever.
2. Take a warm bath
Even though the child is having a fever, the child must still take a bath or just on a cloth. Warm shower (29.4-32.2 ° C) is considered to help overcome childhood fever. Warm water that affects the child's skin when taking a bath will help cool the body and make the child's body temperature slightly decreased (1-2 °C for 30-45 minutes). If you use cold water for bathing children, this can actually make children shiver and make the child's body temperature rise to tolerate the cold felt by the child.
3. Help your child's body heat out quickly
This can be done by wearing clothes to the child that covers his entire body. Do not have to wear thick clothes, enough with clothes that are rather thin but closed, and blanket the child. Clothing that is too thick can actually prevent the child's body heat from coming out, so that children's fever can be higher. Thinner clothes can help heat out the body more easily.
Apart from clothing, you can also help remove a child's body heat by making the temperature of the child's room as comfortable as possible for the child, so that the child is not cold or hot. Let the child get enough rest time to be able to recover his body condition, but this does not need to be done in a day's way in bed.
4. Drink plenty of water
There is no need to direct a lot in one drink, a little but more often is better done. This method can help the body to get rid of the heat in the body faster. Drinking lots of water can also prevent children from dehydration (lack of fluids in the body) because fever causes children to lose a lot of fluids than usual. Besides drinking water, children can also get fluids from other foods or drinks, such as soup, ice cream, and so on. In addition to preventing dehydration, ice cream or other cold drinks are also able to help cool the child's body from the inside, thus helping to overcome a child's fever.
In order for fluid loss in children not to get worse, you should avoid children from drinks that contain caffeine, such as tea, coffee, and soft drinks. This drink can make children urinate more often.
5. Eat a lot
The body needs more nutritional intake during a fever. So that a lot of food intake can help a child's fever heal faster. The higher the child's fever, the greater the child's nutritional needs.
Let the child eat various foods that he likes. In essence, so that children have the appetite to eat. Usually the child's appetite decreases when he has a fever, and this is precisely what can slow the healing of children. Offer children a variety of foods, but don't force children if they don't want to eat them. If he is hungry, surely he will look for food.
6. Drink herbal tea
Drink herbal tea, like ginger tea, chamomile, yarrow, elderflowerand herbal tea lemon balm, believed to be able to deal with child and adult fever. This drink is believed to provide a calming effect and can also trigger the body to sweat. Expending this sweat can then help reduce body temperature during a fever. You can add honey as a sweetener if you want.
