What to do if your child has heat stroke and vomits

Many people may suffer from heatstroke in life, but children are actually the most susceptible to it. Children often run outside in the summer, and the running and jumping process may lead to colds, nausea and vomiting due to heatstroke. Parents should know that they must provide timely first aid after heatstroke to avoid affecting their health.

Heat stroke in children

1 The prominent symptom of heatstroke is high fever. Generally, the body temperature during heatstroke often reaches 38℃-39℃. In severe heatstroke, the body temperature can even reach above 41℃.

2 Children sweat a lot at the beginning of the disease, and then excessive sweating may cause dysfunction of the hypothalamus and sweat glands. The skin becomes dry and burning, and the face becomes flushed. When there is no sweat, the child's body temperature tends to rise further rapidly.

3. Accompanied by thirst, mental depression or irritability, some children also have convulsions and coma. In severe cases, complications include cerebral edema, respiratory failure, circulatory failure and damage to important organ functions.

Emergency treatment of heat stroke in children

Remove from high temperature environment immediately.

If children have heatstroke, they should be removed from the high temperature environment immediately and moved to ventilated and cool places such as corridors, under the shade of trees, and air-conditioned rooms to allow them to have a good rest. However, it should be noted that the cooling method should be gentle and avoid sudden drops in temperature. For example, a child suffering from heatstroke should not be immediately taken into an air-conditioned room with too low a temperature. Instead, a fan should be blown on the child, or the child should be placed in an air-conditioned room with a suitable temperature.

Remove from high temperature environment immediately.

If children have heatstroke, they should be removed from the high temperature environment immediately and moved to ventilated and cool places such as corridors, under the shade of trees, and air-conditioned rooms to allow them to have a good rest. However, it should be noted that the cooling method should be gentle and avoid sudden drops in temperature. For example, a child suffering from heatstroke should not be immediately taken into an air-conditioned room with too low a temperature. Instead, a fan should be blown on the child, or the child should be placed in an air-conditioned room with a suitable temperature.

Medicine to dispel heat.

If children have heatstroke, parents can give them oral medicines such as Rendan, Shidi Shui, Huoxiang Zhengqi Shui, etc. They can also apply cooling oil, Fengyoujing and other medicines on their foreheads and temples. However, parents should not give them antipyretics, antibiotics or other drugs without authorization.

Scraping.

Gua Sha is one of the special treatments in traditional Chinese medicine. When children have heatstroke, you can try Gua Sha on them. Gua Sha therapy refers to the use of smooth hard instruments or fingers, metal needles, etc., to repeatedly scrape, squeeze, pull, pinch, and prick specific parts of the human body surface in a physical stimulation manner, causing ecchymosis, blood spots, or punctate bleeding on the skin surface, and improving the body's qi and blood circulation by stimulating the body's surface veins, thereby achieving the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, adjusting yin and yang, relaxing muscles and tendons, clearing away heat and reducing swelling, and strengthening the body and eliminating evil. However, if parents do not understand scraping therapy, they should not try it recklessly to avoid hurting their children.

Dietary adjustment.

If a child has heatstroke and is conscious, parents should let them drink light salt water several times to replenish enough water and salt. If the condition is not very serious, or the child has basically recovered, parents can cook some mung bean porridge, winter melon soup and other foods for them, or give them some fresh fruit juice, watermelon and other fruits, but do not give children greasy food.