The doctor insisted: Putting your finger in the convulsing baby's mouth is the wrong way to handle

What is a high convulsive fever?

Grand-mal seizures are a prolonged and high-frequency muscle twitch. When such seizures, patients often lose consciousness, stop breathing (convulsions of the respiratory muscles are constantly or contracting, so the lungs cannot expand), increased secretion of mucus and respiratory tract cannot swallow causing foam edges, eyes, cyanosis.

Seizures occur due to hyperthermia> 37.8 degrees Celsius in children from 6 months to 6 years of age. 3-5% of children in this age group have convulsions due to fever. From age 6 onwards children will no longer be at risk of seizures when fever.

When seizures of children may be more manifestations of vomiting, incontinence, foaming of the mouth .

These seizures are usually short, general seizures, lasting no longer than 5 minutes. After a seizure, the child may be sluggish or sleepy. This time can last up to an hour. Children often have 1 seizure for 1 fever.

Children with convulsions, what to do?

- Calm down, leave a space large enough for the person to twitch, keep the distance between people around and who is twitching. A person who is convulsing, losing consciousness, can hurt people around.

- Ensure a safe environment for convulsants to have a safe seizure. Keep away from areas with water, electricity, glass, sharp objects, utensils that may fall and cause injuries.

- Place the child in a well-ventilated place, let the child twitch, monitor the child, monitor how much time the child is convulsing to report to the doctor when taken to the hospital. Run out, give your baby a safe tilt and quickly take him to the hospital.

- Make a soft object under the head twitch to avoid a head injury while convulsing. - Do not try to keep your hands young because it can cause a joint injury to your joints.

- Do not hold your child when he or she is convulsing because it may cause injury to the child.

- Do not insert anything into the baby's mouth because it can obstruct the upper airway.

- Record the time of convulsion if possible.

- When the patient has stopped seizure, rotate the patient on his or her side to clear the airway, the mucus will flow out of the mouth to avoid inhaling his own saliva. When babies choke milk also lie on their side for this reason.

- Without squeezing the patient, muscle twitching is unconsciously spontaneous, pressing or tying the sick person without stopping the convulsions but will cause convulsions to the person convulsing, I have met a family member trying to die. seizures cause a fall and head injury.

- After the person has regained consciousness, do not leave the person alone but must monitor whether he has recovered his senses, has muscle weakness or paralysis, and does not give food or drink until he has definitely recovered. Explain to the seizure what happened.