How to lower fever - Treatment

When the temperature rises
During childhood, the situation is repeated often: the child has his face flushed, and is off more heated than usual. He puts the thermometer and has a fever.

How to act?
One of the most frequent causes of the increase in body temperature is the infectious diseases (respiratory, gastrointestinal, urinary ...) usually produced by viruses. But it also tends to appear before a fever when there is excessive heat or dehydration. While it is not usual, it is sometimes a symptom of other more serious disorders, so we must never stop investigating their origin.

¿Combat, or wait?
Some pediatricians prefer no system for treating fever. They are convinced that it increases the body's defense capabilities against infectious diseases. Others, by contrast, are not in favor of keeping it so uncomfortable it is. The proper attitude is to treat it wherever high (over 38 ° C), the patient is upset, disoriented or have ever suffered convulsions of fever.

Action on two fronts.
Two types of measures to help lower it. On the one hand, it will ensure that the room temperature comfortable, that the child does not have an excessive amount of clothing and drink plenty of fluids. When the fever is not very high, it will cool further compresses the body through warm water. If it is high, it will be more effective to introduce a child in a bath of warm water, two or three degrees lower than your body temperature.

Antitérmicos.
The drugs are another possibility. Each child responds better to one another, and agrees not to use two different exceed the dose. Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) is a good antitérmico, but is not indicated when there is vomiting or gastrointestinal discomfort. Nor should it be used if the little sick of flu or chickenpox, because it could encourage the emergence of Reye's syndrome, a serious disease, though rare.

Children are generally very well tolerated commercial preparations of paracetamol, but can be given if there is any injury to the liver. Both these medicines such as aspirin should not be taken at intervals of less than four hours.

Whenever there is a fever it is necessary to diagnose the cause. This is easy when you see other symptoms, but if not it is necessary to use analysis and X-rays.

Tonsillitis - throat infection

Many kids are prone to tonsillitis several times a year. The fever will go up and vomit all you eat, I have a headache, and in some cases, drowsiness and smell of acetone in the breath. When submitting vomiting, we should not force them to eat.

They must offer fresh liquid in installments of one hour after the last vomiting. As for the recurrence of infections, we first need to confirm if they are produced by beta hemolytic streptococcus, and this is done through a crop of pharyngeal exudate.

If positive, will be carried out by the same study to the closest relatives (mother, father, siblings). Usually, usually located a healthy carrier who, like the little sick, you should indicársele penicillin. In any case, the angina "repeat" are not sufficient to raise a tonsillectomy (tonsils operation).

The growth can cause discomfort?

Between six and nine, children often have pains in the legs for no apparent reason. They often held responsible "estirón."

Some pediatricians may refuse to grow up hurt. But the truth is that, in most cases, after examining the child, can not find a cause that justifies it. The odd thing is these strange pains that do not occur when the child plays or runs, but at night, while resting.

Nor causing redness or swelling, and if you touch the parties concerned that the child does not feel it hurt more. Once the doctor has ruled out that these pains are symptoms of rheumatic fever, a problem hip or other diseases, we can be reassured: disappear as they arrived.

Burns in children and INSOL

A full sun
The skin of children is very sensitive to the sun's rays. So in summer and on the beach, there is nothing better than an umbrella and T-shirt. In addition we must apply every two hours, a sunscreen product with high-protection factor of 6 to 8, children over two years, and 12 to 15, for the babies.

Sunburn: always happen by overexposure to the sun. Cause skin rashes, itching and pain. Faced with a slight burn, the first thing you should do is to cool the damaged skin with a soft sponge or cold compresses, and then applying a special moisturizing lotion to alleviate the effects of the sun, in other words, after a sun. Never fat creams or oils.

The most serious burns acquire a red-violet, produce blisters, pain and fever. If the child is big, you can apply an ointment specifically for sunburn and let it heal on the air. When the boy is small, it should go to the doctor. Should drink plenty of fluids to rehydrate the skin.

Insolaciones: Heat stroke is more serious than the burn. Is also produced by passing too many hours in the sun without protection. Your symptoms may include: skin red, dry, hot, or pallor, exhaustion, cold sweat and headaches, dizziness, vomiting ... In this case we must act immediately transferred to the child in the shade, a cool, airy and loose clothing.

If you are pale, we have to put your head lower than his feet, and if it is red, put it in elevated position on a cushion. Fan and applied wet towels for the temperature to fall. At the same time, offer liquids: no ice-cold water with salt, lemon and sugar. It should alert the doctor.

Heat exhaustion: It is different from heatstroke or burn, but so has the sun. Its symptoms include redness of the skin, which in turn is humid and very hot, fever, headache, stunning and, sometimes, dizziness and delirium.

When introduced, and while the doctor comes, the most urgent task is to lower body temperature, submerging the child in warm water and then wrapping it in a blanket or wet towel until the fever down.

Febrile Seizures are the children

After six months and during the first two years, between 3 and 5 per cent of children convulsing amid feverish episode infectious.

Fortunately, this incidence decreased to zero between 4 and 5 years old. Men tend to suffer from this disorder much more frequently than girls and in some families seems to have greater sensitivity than in others.

The causes of such attacks, are very diverse, but in the case of simple febrile seizures, it is an infectious process extra skull. In these cases, the abrupt increase in temperature that usually produces a viral infection, disrupts the electrical impulses brain, which makes the child loses consciousness and at the same time, develop involuntary movements class spasmodic: convulsions. After 2 or 3 minutes, gave the episode and almost always coincides with the fall in temperature.

The convulsive episodes, triggered by spikes in temperature very high, higher than forty degrees. The fever with these characteristics often cause viral infections. That is why if the child was taking an antibiotic to solve the latter problem, of course, it was unable to control infection because viruses are not sensitive to that.

Which face a seizure? If the seizure lasts no more than 3 minutes, and then lower the temperature reacts correctly, leaving with dreams post-convulsive proceeds of attrition that leads the episode, saying that this is a typical febrile seizure.

However, when the diagnosis is unclear, are made all the necessary studies to discover the cause of the seizure, as it may be due to meningitis and should perform a lumbar puncture.

As febrile convulsions never leave aftermath, it is not necessary to practice any sophisticated study, the neurologist who will decide whether to place an electroencephalogram after a month of the episode to certify that everything is fine.

Those children who have more than one episode, should receive diazepán under the supervision of a pediatrician only in the first 48 hours of feverish episode started.

Otitis

The otitis is the illness more common of the hearing and you are about the inflammation of the same one that can affect the extraneous part, you mediate or you confine of this organ. According to the sector that the same one affects, the denomination of the otitis class that show up.

In the case of the extraneous otitis, they are represented by the processes that affect the pavilion headphone and the conduit extraneous aiditivu. They are characterized by the appearance of intense pain, particularly when pressing or to move the pavilion headphone, and even when making movements with the mouth: to masticate, to swallow, etc.

As you are bigger or pettier the grade of the inflammation that affect the external auditory canal, the otitis can go accompanied by a certain grade of deafness, caused by the inflammation experienced by the walls of the conduit that obstruído appears.

If the inflammatory process advances, despés will appear the supuración that one manifests for a serosity and even for true pus that fill the external auditory canal and you ooze for him, staining the patient in this case the pillow, as well as the hair or the cotton pellets that usually arrange in the entry of this conduit and that frequently they forget there, transforming then into a foreign body with the complications that such a status can carry.

Now then, the otitis stockings, like you indicate your name, they are those that affect the half hearing. They can be classified in two big groups: acute and chronic. In first o'clock, that is to say the acute ones, the predominant symptoms are the pain and the deafness, accompanied in many occasions of fever; they can also show up acúfenos or buzzes of hearing of different type (beeps of type pulsátil, whistles, stream of vapor, etc.), as well as, not always, a sensation of instability or slight insecurity that it constitute the symptom called vertigo.

The half acute otitis, if you are not quickly, you will produce supuración and, like in some extraneous otitis, you also here flow of the extraneous hearing a white xanthic liquid that stain the cottons and the pillow.

The leading cause of this supuracuión resides in a nasal infection that for via tubal, that is to say, for the Eustachian tube that communicate the nasal graves with the tympanic box or half hearing, it is transmitted at this last. The appearance of this supuración indicates that the drum membrane or eardrum that it are kind of a diaphragm that separate the extraneous hearing of the half hearing, have been perforated, and you are then, in general, when the acute pain that the patient entered usually disappears.

The otitis interns, they also receive the laberinitis name, since in this case the inflammation resides in the interior hearing or labyrinth. In general they constitute a sequel of the otitis stockings festered chronicles, to those that when not being treated properly, they affect the interior hearing. Your main symptoms are: the supuración, the deafness, the hearing buzzes and the vertigo.

The Poliomelitis

The poliomelitis is an illness infecciosovírica that affect the children fundamentally, although with pettier frequency it also attacks the adults. You appear in epidemic buds in some countries and in form endemoepidémica in others. Such variances depend on the state inmunitario of a population in front of the infection for the virus of the poliomelitis.

This illness, you are caused by a virus that infect the organism through human-to-human transmissions or for via insinuation, when they act as vehicle the liquids that the man uses in your to live quotidian. These liquids, such as the water, the milk, among other, they can be infected by the own man or for waste waters that infect the conditions of drinking water. The human-to-human propagation of the virus through seemingly healthy individuals is explained by the following facts: the virus penetrates in the organism for via digestive and you nest in the pharynx and, especially, in the intestine, where you reproduce extraordinarily and you are deleted by means of the feces. You originate an illness of pharyngeal or digestive determinism, and only by one percent of the polluted ones it causes paralysis. In the remaining ones, the illness decreases to some bare anginas or an intestinal dysfunction that it cure spontaneously. The individual that have suffered this infection, is definitively immunized, because you have been formed in him a rate of enough antibodies to exercise an attestation and you activate protection. This status antigénica is the one that also believe the vaccination antipoliomielítica. The ingestion of repeated vaccine dose for virus inactivado believes a state of practically permanent defence. The inyeción of dead (bovine Salk) virus determines a reaction inmunitaria equally, although less active and durable than the vaccination for via oral type Sabin.

The contamination of a not vaccinated person, unchains an illness that begin clinically, after a period of incubation of 10 or 12 days, with anginas or digestive dysfunctions, accompanied by thermal slight elevation. In the forms non paralytics, the clinical box is reduced to this symptomatology, so not very characteristic. In the paralyzed forms they are added to the mentioned dysfunctions two clinical absolutely characteristic symptoms: fever (with elevations between 38 and 39º), and pain (localized in the extremities so much higher as inferior and you increase during the mobilization attempts) .Aparecen the espamos and muscle cramps, extremely painful and of progressive path. This period, called preparalítico, you are characterized by pain and fever whose duration is of 2 or 3 days and that you end in the paralyzed period, during which the muscular typical paralyses are set up that can affect to any muscle group, although preferably, to the inferior extremities. In occasions, the paralyzed muscles are the intercostal ones and others that have had made the pulmonary ventilation, with that which the calls respiratory forms of the infantile paralysis are constituted.

The path of the poliomelitis can be very desfavorabe, especially when the calls factors of graveness converge, among which it highlight for your importance, the respiratory form of the poliomelitis. Another factor of graveness is the participation of the cerebral trunk and still of the own encéfalo, in the process lesional.

Bronchitis

The bronchitis consists on the inflammation of the bronchial tree, accompanied by an excessive production of mucosity. The acute variety of bronchitis, very current, usually determines scarce incompetence. On the contrary, the chronic form is important, since he/she goes accompanied by intense dysfunctions of the respiratory feature and frequently continued of emphysema, and it can even drive to the death for bronchopneumonia or acute and cardiac breathing failure.

In the case of the acute bronchitis, you are about a process that can dearrollarse like the initial manifestation of an infectious illness, as the measles and the typhoid fever, or parallelly to an acute bacterial pneumonia. In chronic bronchitis they are sometimes observed symptoms of an acute, unchained bronchitis, apparently, for the ación of irritating factors, rather that infectious, such as the substances that pollute the atmosphere.

You frequently begin with nuisances retroesternales, due to the inflammation of the trachea and dry, difficult and painful cough, in crisis form or paroxysms. The exhibition to the cold air and the inhalation of irritating agents, as the tobacco plant, they make worse the crisis of cough. Frequently he/she goes accompanied by noisy and perceptible respiration; and at the beginning, it is usually escalsa the expectoration of the mucus, which are made then more abundant and I thicken.

The bronchitis agudade the children evolve in a very serious way, because of the pneumonia that originate.

As for the chronic bronchitis, you are characterized by cough and expectoration that it persist the whole year, with abundant secretion of bronchial mucus and inflammatory alterations of the bronchial wall.

The factors that intervene in the setting-up of the chronic bronchitis are several and they are not still very well-known. The frequency of due deaths to this illness increases with the age, and you are eviodente the prevalence of the men on the women.

You are difficult to establish the paper carried out by the sick person's profession in the origin of this illness, but the certain thing is that you take place with more frequency in the industrial fields. You are suspected firmly that the sludges of the atmospherical air influence notably in the path and disease progression. You seem also to be certain that the nicotine inhaled with the fume of the tobacco plant acts directly on the bronchial mucosa and you force her to segregate an excessive quantity of mucus; however, all the smokers of cigarettes not suffer bronchitis, that which make suppose that certain individual and family susceptibility exists.

The development of the chronic bronchitis is manifested by intermittent crisis of acute bronchitis, mainly in the months of winter, crisis of which it are more and more difficult to recover. In general, the illness begins in way inidosa, although it can begin in an acute way. Many sick persons allocate your promeros symptoms to some infectious acute process, as pneumonia, measles, whooping cough, etc.; other, simply to smoke. The progress of the chronic bronchitis is co patent frequency, until transforming into a suffering that last the whole year, with acute exacerbations. This state frequently leads to the death, well for rough pneumonia, well for breathing failure or cardiac right, to the end of 20 or 40 years after your beginning.

The influence of the atmospherical state, is fully grateful, and you are notorious the aggravation of the symptoms the days of cold, wet time and with mist.