Parents are sometimes
very worried when their child had a fever. Sometimes, because of so worry, they
immediately take their child to the emergency room to get care from a doctor
immediately. Concerns of parents is very reasonable, because when a child has a
fever, child’s body will get symptoms of chills and heat on his body. Fever is
a rise in body temperature exceeding 38 ° C (when measured via rectal),
although the temperature rise limit itself can be different in each person.
However, fever is not really up to life-threatening condition, unless an
increase is very high body temperature continuously, for example up to 41 ° C.
The presence of fever indicates a particular disease, although fever is usually
due to a generalized infection is not serious.
Almost all infections
can cause fever. Such infections can be bacterial infections, viral infections,
certain medications, certain diseases associated with exposure to heat. In
addition, there are several other reasons which can also cause a slight rise in
body temperature, such as after immunization (although it does not occur in all
children) and when a child is teething.
What
should parents do if a child has a fever?
There are some things parents
should do when a child has a fever
1. Treatment of fever in the home:
If the fever is mild and the child
is still able to eat and play, you are as a parents need to give drink enough
and let the child rest. So the fever may go down by itself.
2. If the child looks uncomfortable,
vomiting, dehydration and difficult to sleep it can be done in the following
ways to lower the body temperature of children:
·
If
the child is shivering, do not put the blanket around his body. Use a thin
blanket or fabric that is easily absorbed sweat.
·
Shower
with warm water can also help lower body temperature. But the way it should be
given after the child was given a febrifuge, to avoid temperature rise in body again.
·
Give
your child plenty of fluids to prevent dehydration, could be water, milk,
vegetable soup, etc.
·
While
eating at the time of fever is not a problem, but do not force children to eat.
·
Compressed
your child with warm water
·
Give
paracetamol to reduce fever in children, the way it works is by lowering the
body temperature measurement in the brain. Paracetamol should be taken every
4-6 hours.
When
the parents have to bring their child to the doctor?
If your child has a
fever with febrile seizures or fever does not go down despite being given a
fever-lowering drugs for three days or accompanied by fever with red spots on
the body, nosebleeds or bleeding from somewhere else or be accompanied by
severe vomiting or diarrhea are quickly brought to the unit emergency
department. The possibility of dengue fever.
Keywords:
Fever, Child
Fever, Serious Fever
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