4 mistakes when reducing fever for children that 99% of Vietnamese mothers have

Apply cold ice

Some mothers have children with fever, cold for children but this is a very low effective heat transfer method.

Experts recommend not to cool down physically, not to put cold towels, cold showers or cold packs. Parents should prepare a soft towel and soak it in warm water or so cool boiled water is better for children.

Apply blankets to children when the fever is high

When children have high fever, people are always cold, limbs are cold, even seeing purple veins in their legs, because when they have fever, the phenomenon of peripheral vasoconstriction should feel cold but actually the temperature in hot people flaming forest.

Although children cry coldly, parents should not cover the baby's blanket, because covering up the blanket makes the child's body temperature rise. Therefore, parents should never apply warm blankets to children when they are in high fever, because this job is anti-science for children.

Anal drug abuse

When children have high fever, many parents want to reduce fever quickly so they often use antipyretics to put anus. But in the opinion of many experts, it is recommended that mothers should not abuse this drug. The fact that mothers abuse anal suppository because drugs can cause side effects of liver and kidney poisoning for children.

Take a lot of antipyretics

When the child is sick, the temperature rises a little, so many mothers immediately give their children a fever-reducing medicine. The use of fever-reducing medicine is not good for your baby's health. Therefore, the mother should only give her child a medicine when she has a fever of 38.5 degrees C.

For children, the temperature in the mouth is from 37.5 degrees C or more, in the armpit from 37.2 degrees Celsius, it means that the baby is feverish, but not all cases need to use fever-reducing medicine. If you see your child only fever at 37.5-38.5 degrees Celsius, just take off your clothes, give your baby plenty of water, or breastfeed more.