During illness, the body temperature rises and the body begins to fight the disease. But sometimes a big temperature increase can be life threatening. Then you need to take measures to lower the temperature. To increase the body temperature are very sensitive to infants and newborns. At these children against a background of a big temperature of a body can develop cramps and various infringements of convolution of a blood develop.
It is very important to monitor the child's condition if there is a fever and take measures to reduce it. Elevated temperature is considered to be more than 38 degrees if it is measured in the rectum and 37.5 degrees if you measure the temperature under your armpit.
When it is necessary to bring down the temperature in children?
It is necessary to bring down the temperature in the following cases:
- If the baby is less than 3 months old, the temperature is above 38 degrees;
- When the temperature is more than 38 degrees, it is associated with pain throughout the body and with a strong chill;
- If the temperature is more than 37.5 in children with different diseases of the heart and nervous system and with an increased risk of convulsions.
With different infectious diseases, the temperature drops in the morning and afternoon and rises in the evening. This is due to changes in thermoregulation located in the brain. His activity is maximal by midnight and by morning decreases gradually. The rise in temperature at night should be taken into account in order to prevent a rise in temperature in the first half of the night.
In the evening hours, when the temperature rises to a level of 38 degrees, it is better to use antipyretic agents, and to get the maximum effect, the antipyretic must be consumed at 22.00 pm. As a result of the increase in temperature, different situations arise that will require the intervention of emergency medical care. It is necessary to monitor the condition of children if their body is sensitive to an increase in temperature.
If one of the following symptoms appears, you need to see a doctor:
Suspicion of the child's dehydration. This is indicated by such signs as
- If the baby cries without tears, he has increased excitability or apathy, dryness of the mucous membrane of the tongue or eyes.
- When a child tears out the drunk fluid or when the child does not want to drink.
- The appearance of seizures, bruises on the conjunctiva of the eyes, the presence throughout the body of a purple rash.
- Rapid breathing or excessive slowing.
- Severe headache, unceasing vomiting.
- Inability to check the temperature with the help of antipyretic agents.
In all these cases, you urgently need to call a doctor, since there is a risk of developing meningitis, septic shock, insufficiency of internal organs.