Reducing fever with eels is not safe for babies

Use eel fever effectively

In folklore, many people believe that using natural eels can reduce fever for young children. Because the natural eel lives under the clean and safe mud layer. Many moms claimed to have tried this method for their children and found the results quite safe. By the natural eel to the young people will absorb all the heat to help children reduce fever safely quickly.

However, there are also some mothers who expressed fear when seeing mothers applying antipyretic treatment for children not verified by the scientists, but only by oral experience.

According to the salary of Doctor Bui Hong Minh, Vice Chairman of Ba Dinh Medicine Association said that in traditional medicine, there are many effective and safe antipyretic drugs recorded. But there is no record of using eels to lower fever when high fever.

" In addition to using eels to crawl on people to reduce fever because it is very dangerous. The eel itself lives in dirty mud, on the skin carrying viscous mucus, on people sticking to young skin can cause skin infections ", Doctor Bui Hong Minh said.

According to Associate Prof. Dr. Nguyen Duy Thinh, Institute of Biotechnology and Food, Polytechnic University HN: Scientifically, this method is not grounded, applied to young children will be very dangerous. Because eels are animals living in mud, they often contact with many infected parasites. When using eel crawling on a baby's skin to reduce fever, we can accidentally cause the baby to become infected '.

Mr. Thinh also recommends that all people "Do not use tips that do not have harmful scientific benefits. In particular, recently, dengue fever is booming if children with dengue fever use eels crawling on people. it is extremely harmful, the risk of infection is very great ".

Method of fever reduction for children properly

Please use a towel dipped in the basin, squeeze and wipe the whole body for children, mainly in the position: forehead, armpit, groin, palms, feet to cool the baby

Soak the water in a tub of water to dry the towel and repeat this action until your baby's temperature drops.

The mother should never apply to the child with cold water because cold compressing will cause the blood vessels to shrink, the pores also shrink, so that the heat will not escape and the child will have a higher fever.

When a child has a fever due to infection, pneumonia, cold compressing, he or she will make the illness more severe, which can make him more susceptible to cold and pneumonia due to increased ability to use oxygen.

Note: In case of a fever of 38 degrees or more, parents should let the baby see a doctor for prompt treatment.