Heat in children
The high fever in children indicates that the body of the child has been exposed to viruses and immunity to the body to fight these viruses and eliminate them; fever and fever are symptoms of the body’s exposure to the disease and not a disease in themselves, and indicate the most common diseases of cold and flu, Other symptoms:
- Shortness of breath and dry cough or accompanied by phlegm and mucus.
- Fatigue, extreme fatigue, inability to move and play.
- Redness of the face color with a feeling of headache and dryness in the mouth.
- Crying and not wanting to eat or drink.
How to measure your child’s temperature
- Putting the hand on the front of the child when watching any of the previous symptoms; but this is a preliminary measurement as it is necessary to determine the amount of temperature rise using the thermometer.
- The child from the moment of birth until the age of six years is measured by the temperature of the balance lying on his side in the anus.
- The child is older than six years and the balance is placed for three minutes with the mouth closed.
Ways to reduce heat in children
When the temperature reaches 40 ° C, the doctor should immediately go to the doctor or if the roads are unable to reduce the heat.
- Apply cold compresses of cold tap water and not of ice. Heat drop can lead to severe consequences. Compresses are placed on the front, feet and under the armpits.
- Boil the basil: Put a quantity of green basil leaves in a glass of water and mix with a tablespoon of ginger and boil on the fire until half evaporated amount of water, lift from the fire and leave until you become cold and then the natural honey, taken from this boiled spoon to spoon three Times a day until the heat goes down.
- Apple cider vinegar: One of the most important treatments to reduce the temperature of children, can be added to the water with natural honey and make the child drink several times a day; but the child may not like the taste of apple vinegar acute, so there must be other alternatives, including:
- Make a bath of apple cider vinegar by adding a glass of water to the lukewarm water, and then ask the child to sit for ten minutes and repeat it whenever needed.
- Make compresses of diluted apple cider vinegar: Add a cup of coffee from apple cider vinegar to each liter of water, then moisten the towel with the solution and squeeze and place on the baby’s front, abdomen or feet until it becomes hot and swollen and so on.