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.
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