High temperature in children
All children suffer from high temperature at different stages of their lives, and this temperature is often accompanied by inflammation, whether inflammation of the throat or ear or any other type and this is the way the body to deliver a message that he is sick and that speeches have happened and is also his way to fight infections .
The high temperature in children may indicate problems more than the same disease as meningitis or brain damage when the temperature reaches above 40 degrees Celsius, Therefore, the mother or the person supervising the children should know ways to help the body to reduce the temperature until the child gets proper medical supervision.
In this article we will explain to you how to know the temperature and use the correct cold compresses to reduce the temperature of children.
High temperature detection
A small kiss on the child’s brow or with a touch of a hand, the mother can know that her child is hot. These are some of the tools that you can use to know the child’s true temperature.
- Medical Thermometers: The balance, which contains mercury and is used in hospitals and doctors, and when using this balance for the child under the armpit must increase half the temperature of the given.
- Digital Balance: This balance is easy to use for the mother; because he writes the temperature in the balance.
- Children sucker (pacifier): There are now lollipops for children with a balance that writes the current temperature of the child.
Place cold compresses
The use of compresses is a helpful procedure to reduce the temperature of the child, but if the temperature is much higher, the child should be taken to the doctor immediately, and attention should also be paid to the fact that children do not use ice as compresses, because doctors are advised to use it only in cases of trauma and fractures.
- On the forehead or on the head.
- On the thighs of the child in case of very high temperature and in the summer; because the index of the child in the winter may expose him to cold.
- On the hands and under the armpits.
- Compresses in pharmacies can be placed on the child’s brow, on the back or on the abdomen, and there are also compresses in pharmacies for use in the stroller in the summer to protect them from heat and sunstroke.