2-year-old boy with high fever, his father's wrong action caused me to die, read to never have to regret

It happened on Saturday last week, 2-year-old Xiaoping, in Wenzhou (China), had a high fever, suddenly in the morning the boy was convulsed, his face turned black, his arms and legs were cramped. , causing her whole family to be frightened. Xiaoping's father now uses 'folk methods' to treat seizures, which is to put his finger into his mouth.

After the father tried this way, Xiaoping quickly stopped twitching, but the boy remained motionless. Too scared, the family rushed to take the boy to the emergency room of the Second Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University. Unfortunately, the child came to the hospital, his breathing and heart stopped beating, his throat was swollen, his airway blocked. The doctor immediately rescued him, but still failed to save Xiaoping. The doctor pointed out the cause of death, which is the wrong way to help the father.

Dr. Lam Y Dong explained that when a child with a high fever convulses, afraid that the child will bite the tip of his tongue, so the folk have handed down a method that is used to put his hand in his throat. In fact, this method only increases the danger, because the adult's finger touches the child's throat not only suffers from suffocation, but also causes the vagus nerve to be strongly stimulated and causes the heart to stop beat. If it is not timely, it could lead to loss of life.

In fact, children with high fever appear convulsions are not uncommon, parents need to learn how to cope. According to incomplete statistics of the Children's Neurology Department of the hospital, each year in more than 1200 children admitted to the hospital, about half of them appear to have seizures, of which more than 100 cases of parents handle properly lead to hurting children.

Dr. Lam Y Dong, head of the Department of Child Neurology at Wenzhou Medical University's Second Hospital, revealed that children with high fever appear seizures, because their nervous system is still not fully developed, The brain is very agitated and leads to convulsions. The percentage of children with febrile convulsions is about 5%, especially in preschool children and mostly in children from 6 months to 3 years. However, it is worth noting that 99.9% of children will go away within 5 minutes and very few children have continuous seizures.

What to do when a child has a high fever?

The first way to treat a child with convulsions is to reduce fever. Do not rush to the hospital without first aid because the high fever itself will be dangerous for the baby, not the seizure.

Seizures in children are usually benign convulsions, which occur about 1-2 minutes, have a baby only 30 seconds, so you need to calm down.

You need to prepare antipyretic medicine for anal anus, 80mg for babies under 10 kg, 150mg for babies 10-15 kg, 300mg for babies over 15 kg.

If your baby has a viscous stuffy condition, lay him on his side, use a towel to wipe his nose, and his mouth will continually leak out.

Once you have made sure your baby's airway is clear, start to wipe and apply a warm towel to your baby to reduce the fever.

The cover includes 5 covers at 5 positions: forehead, two armpits, two groin, constantly changing each towel to ensure proper towel temperature to lower fever for the baby.

When your baby starts to reduce fever, take him to the hospital to check. Often high fever with convulsions in children is benign but does not rule out a few cases of convulsive symptoms as a manifestation of a certain disease, requiring direct examination and treatment.