Warning from the case: A 1-month-old child had a fever, his mother added a shirt and a painful ending

Liu Jun's family living in Xinzhou District, Wuhan Province, China was very happy when his son was born a month ago. The whole family welcomes the baby. But then the tragedy happened when the baby was just 1 month old. At that time, the weather gradually turned to winter, the temperature dropped, the family was afraid of the baby being cold, so she wore many layers of clothes, shirt after shirt, thick sweater when sleeping.

However, the strange thing is that the more he coughs, the more runny nose. At first, he was put to sleep separately on a small crib, but when it was cold, Liu Jun and his wife decided to let them sleep together and put him in the middle.

At bedtime, the boy not only did not sleep but cried a lot, sweating profusely. Liu Jun and his wife tried to soothe their children, the child gradually fell asleep because of tiredness. But at the same time, the baby's sweat is constantly flowing. He sleeps sleepily and then he gets tired in the night.

The next morning after waking up, the family noticed that the baby had many bad symptoms, the fever did not subside. The couple thought that their child had a cold, had a fever, so they continued to wrap another layer of clothes for them because that would help them to cut the fever. And at 7 pm, the child continued to have a high fever, could not wake up, his eyes did not open, breathing was weak. At this time, the Liu Liu couple quickly took their children to the hospital.

Liu Jun took his son to the emergency room of Wuhan Hospital. The doctor said that when the child arrived, he was wearing a lot of clothes and wrapping a bag outside. Examination showed that the child was conscious, but the eyes were slow, accompanied by weak breathing, high fever and occasional convulsions.

Babies with suspected fever syndrome in newborns. The subsequent test results also confirmed that this judgment is correct. Children have symptoms of dehydration due to sweating, rehydration is not, brain blood flow is reduced, brain tissue is deprived of oxygen.

Because the child was too young, the fever time was too long, incubated by too many clothes leading to multiple organ failure, bleeding spread to many organs and eventually the doctors were unable to save the baby.

Instructions for handling when a child has high febrile convulsions

When seeing a child having a seizure, parents should stay calm and follow the following guidelines for handling convulsive fever to minimize risks and accidents for children:

Step 1: Clear the airway

Most children with high fever have convulsions while being held in their parents' arms (due to being sick, high fever).

Seeing the baby jerky, unable to cry in the hands of many parents, frantically holding their children up to look for fever-reducing medicines, or running out to catch a taxi to the hospital. But don't do that, parents should be very calm, put the child on his side, his head should not be folded so that the child can breathe well.

When the child is lying on his or her side, the airway will be clear, if there is sputum, it will flow out, not falling into the pulmonary congestion very dangerous.

Vacuum viscous sputum if suction device is available.

Step 2: Analize with antipyretic drugs

Remove clothes to help children comfortable, easier to breathe.

Analgesic antipyretic drug Paracetamol 10mg / kg / time (6 months to 1 year: 1 tablet of 80mg; aged 1-5: 1 tablet of 150mg)

Step 3: Cool the body to reduce fever

Soak a washcloth in warm water (as warm as a baby bath) or plain, well-drained water. Place in armpits, groin and wipe all over the body. Add warm water if needed.

Replace a new warm towel every 2-3 minutes to reduce fever.

Stop cooling when measuring the temperature in the armpit below 38 degrees C.

All children convulsing after first aid must be taken immediately to a medical facility for proper diagnosis and treatment.