4hw.com.cn: summer fever is a unique seasonal disease in infants and young children. It is usually related to the high temperature. It occurs frequently in summer. The common cold and fever reducing drugs can not play a therapeutic role, but will aggravate the disease. So what should babies do with summer fever?
Summer fever
In summer, the baby's temperature is high and low. It may be that the baby has' summer fever '!
Summer fever is known in medicine as "summer fever" in children. It is a common seasonal disease in infancy, which occurs in June to August.
It mainly occurs in hot summer. It's not that the baby has a fever due to infection with germs, but that the temperature rises due to the rise of the external environment. Therefore, it's also called 'summer hyperthermia'.
The baby's temperature is generally between 38 ℃ and 40 ℃. The hotter the weather is, the hotter it is.
As the weather gradually cools, the disease will go away naturally.
Summer fever is the most popular attraction for children under 3 years old
Summer fever is very characteristic in the age of onset, that is, most of the children under 3 years old, more than 3 years old rarely suffer from this disease.
Since the brain's thermoregulatory center is not mature before the age of 3, the body temperature cannot be adjusted by itself with the rise of the external environment temperature.
Sweat gland function is also insufficient, sweating less and not easy to disperse, and suffering from summer fever baby is easy to happen every year.
Generally, when the baby is 3-4 years old, the body's temperature regulation system gradually matures and does not come on any more.
Symptoms of summer fever
The number of urination times is more, and the number of drinking is also more. Sometimes the number of urination times per day is up to 20 or more. Due to the decrease of water content between tissues, the baby will become very thirsty, and the amount of drinking water will increase significantly.
Although the temperature is high, but there is no sweat, but the baby's skin is dry without sweat or less sweat.
Irregular fever occurs for a long time. The fever period of the baby can be as long as 1-3 months. The temperature of the baby fluctuates from 38C to 40C and rises and falls with the change of the weather. The higher the temperature is, the higher the temperature will be. When the weather turns cold, the temperature will drop naturally.
Solutions to baby's summer fever
If the baby suffers from summer fever, the first thing the mother should do is to keep the baby in a cool environment. If possible, take the baby to a summer resort or change to a cool environment to live in.
Place your baby in a room with a temperature of about 26 ℃, many babies will cool down quickly in a cool room, and other symptoms will get better. Don't wear too much or too thick for your baby when it's hot, so as not to affect the body's heat dissipation.
If the baby sweats too much, the mother can wash 2-3 warm water baths for the baby, the water temperature should be 3-4 ℃ lower than the baby's temperature, 20-30 minutes each time. When bathing, scrub the skin more, keep the skin clean, help the sweat glands to secrete, so as to reduce the temperature.
In terms of diet, the baby should give priority to digestible foods rich in protein and vitamins, and supplement calories, protein and vitamins.
Drink more soup for your baby, with enough water. Drink more vegetable soup for your baby, such as mung bean soup and winter melon soup. Eat light food, not too much salt, and do not eat greasy food.