Fever is a high incidence of neonatal diseases in summer. For neonatal fever, can you use antipyretic drugs? If you take it, what are the side effects?
Cheng Shuhua, director of Pediatrics, Zhengzhou Third People's Hospital: it's better not to take antipyretic and analgesic drugs such as infantile antipyretic tablets to newborns. Because, this kind of medicine can cause neonatal cyanosis, anemia, navel bleeding, bloody stool and so on. Some antibiotics, such as chloramphenicol, can inhibit the hematopoietic function of bone marrow, resulting in aplastic anemia and agranulocytosis in newborns; neomycin can cause neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and deafness.
Therefore, the newborn as far as possible medication, such as fever, inflammation can be used to clear heat detoxification of traditional Chinese medicine, before using need to consult a doctor. Generally speaking, more than two weeks of newborns can be oral administration, but to use warm boiled water into liquid after taking. When feeding the medicine, pay attention to put the medicine into the bottle or slowly feed it from one side of the mouth with a small spoon. Do not pour the medicine by force to avoid coughing and aspiration into the trachea by mistake. After feeding the medicine, a small amount of warm boiled water should be fed to make the drug completely enter the body.
In fact, the body temperature does not exceed 38 ℃, generally do not rush to reduce the fever, if the fever should choose physical cooling, such as drinking more water, warm water and alcohol bath. All antipyretic drugs, such as paracetamol and compound aspirin, contain caffeine, phenacetin and other ingredients, which have great side effects. The mechanism of neural inhibition in infants is not perfect. When used in high fever, it is easy to induce convulsion and collapse due to sweating. If you have to use antipyretic drugs, please use them under the guidance of a doctor.