With the onset of the summer, the weather suddenly soared. It was often seen that children sweated and flushed. Do not think that it was caused by the heat, and it might be “summer feverâ€.
Summer heat is a unique disease in infants and young children. The clinical features include long-term fever, thirst, polyuria, multiple urination, and sweating. Due to the strict seasonality of the disease, the disease occurs in summer, hence the name summer heat. Modern medicine called heat fever.
The disease mainly occurs in southern China, such as the southeast, south-central and southwest climate hot areas. The incidence of more common in children under the age of 3. The onset time is mostly concentrated in 6, 7, and 8 months. It is closely related to the climate. The higher the temperature is, the more the onset is. However, after the autumn cool, symptoms can subside spontaneously. Some sick children may develop for several consecutive years. With increasing age, the symptoms of the disease may be reduced year by year and the course of the disease may be shorter. If the disease is free of other complications, the prognosis is mostly good.
How to distinguish between summer heat and fever
Expression and sickness: Parents can change their expressions on the baby's face to determine if the baby is ill because of illness. When Mom and Dad see the joy, curiosity, and playful expression of the baby's face being reduced, instead of the flushed, painful, and listless face of the little face, beware that the child may be ill.
Activity: If a child shows diminishing play, lack of concentration, reduced activity, loss of appetite, etc.; or when the child is impatient, uninterested, lethargic, etc., in addition to observing changes in his body temperature, To incorporate the baby's behavioral performance into the observation, pay attention to whether the child may be poorly motivated by the disease.
Physical symptoms: According to experts, if a child has a fever, combined with runny nose, cough, diarrhea, vomiting and other symptoms, it may be related to a cold or gastroenteritis. If your child's diaper has abnormal urine odor, or if the color of urine is different from usual, you should be alert to the child's high fever, which may be related to urinary tract infection; in addition, parents can also observe children's skin with rash or neck. Department of lymph nodes swelling and so on. If fever is present and the above symptoms are combined at the same time, parents are required to seek medical assistance at the appropriate time depending on the severity of the symptoms.
Mom measures
The baby's summer heat has little effect on the body tissues and organs, but it is caused by improper function adjustment and not caused by bacterial infection. Therefore, antibiotics should not be used. The mother can use physical cooling and diet conditioning to care for the baby.
Physical cooling:
* Take a bath every day for the baby. The water temperature starts to be equal to the body temperature. After a short period of time, the water temperature is slightly lower than the body temperature, gradually lowering the temperature to 37°C and then dropping to about 35°C.
* Applying a cold towel and an alcohol sponge bath on the forehead also have a good antipyretic effect.
Dietary conditioning
* The diet should be light, nutritious and easy to digest. Eat high-protein, phospholipid-rich foods, such as lean meat, fish, egg yolk, etc., and at the same time eat more vitamin C rich fresh vegetables and fruits.
* Encourage your baby to drink warm boiled water to facilitate urination; watermelon juice has a good cooling effect and can be given to your baby every day.
* The summer hot baby has poor appetite and the diet should change:
Artificial feeding babies can reduce the amount of milk, formula milk can dilute some; complementary baby should not add new varieties at this time, you can try to change the pattern on the basis of the original variety; with the baby eating the same adult, should be cooking alone Light, tasty, crispy meals.
Home care
* The room is ventilated and cool, and the room temperature is maintained at about 30°C. Air-conditioned rooms open windows no less than 2 hours a day.
* It is advisable to wear soft, loose, breathable pure cotton clothes. Avoid too many clothes and too tight.
* Change clothes and diapers to make your baby feel comfortable.
* To maintain a quiet and warm family atmosphere, my mother must take good care of her baby.
* Therapeutic side:
Because of the long-term fever, the baby's metabolism speeds up, the consumption increases, and the resistance decreases. According to the baby's taste, it can do some heat, relieve heat, stomach-enriched drinks and porridge, improve baby's appetite and enhance the body's resistance.
Chrysanthemum tea, mung bean soup, lily soup, sour plum soup, honeysuckle
Chrysanthemum tea, mung bean soup, lily soup: The chrysanthemum, mung bean, lily bubble or after boiling, filtered to the residue, for the baby to drink;
Sour Plum Soup: If you have trouble making it yourself, you can buy a commercially available product with quality assurance and dilute the baby's drink.
Honeysuckle Lotion: Available in pharmacies, add cold water (add a little sugar) to your baby according to the taste your baby can accept.
Winter melon lotus porridge
Material: 250 grams of wax gourd, 2 fresh lotus leaves and 30 grams of japonica rice.
Method: Wash lotus leaf, cut and fry about 500 ml of soup, filter juice to spare; Wash melon, and even cut into small pieces, add lotus leaf juice, glutinous rice, boiled gruel, add appropriate amount of sugar. Eat sooner or later.
Efficacy: heat and heat, heat and thirst, diuretic swelling.
Note: Deficiency of the spleen and stomach (diarrhea, stomach pain, loose or thin stool, indigestion), lack of yang (cold, cold extremities, pale, light tongue), yin weight loss (night sweats, dry stool, fear Children who are hot and often have hot faces in the afternoon are unfit for human consumption.
Bitter gourd porridge
Ingredients: 100 grams of bitter gourd, 60 grams of sticky rice, 100 grams of rock sugar.
Practice: Wash the bitter gourd, pot, rice, water, bitter gourd with porridge, half-cooked porridge add rock sugar. Eat sooner or later.
Efficacy: Qingrejieshu, Yin Yin Jianwei.
Note: Spleen and stomach, defecate baby should not be used.
Ginseng Oatmeal Porridge
Ingredients: 3 grams of American ginseng, 15 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus and 100 grams of rice.
Practice: Ophiopogon japonicus, after the slag into the glutinous rice boiled porridge, Western water to participate in another stew, the soup will be added to the porridge, Shao Zhu can be boiled. Eat sooner or later.
Efficacy: Yangyin heat, Chufan stomach.
Note: The baby with cold and constipation should not use it.
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