What medicine should I take for repeated colds and fevers?

Colds lead to repeated fevers, which usually occur more often in children. The main reason is that children have weaker resistance and are easily induced to have a fever by external pathogens. To deal with this situation, you need to pay attention to heat dissipation and cooling down, and eat properly. In terms of medication, drug treatment can be carried out according to the age of the child. It is not recommended to use drugs that are highly irritating to the stomach. In addition, infants also need to use medications with caution under the doctor's orders.

Children with fever and cough should not eat too much to prevent vomiting. They should eat easily digestible food and less seafood and salty and greasy food to prevent allergies and coughing and aggravate symptoms.

When children have a fever, parents should not prepare meat, eggs or other unhealthy foods for them. They should drink more boiled water and eat more fresh vegetables and fruits.

High fever can also increase the metabolism of various nutrients and oxygen consumption, so it is right to pay attention to nutritional supplements for children. However, it is wrong to supplement children's nutrition by giving them broth. Because high fever reduces the activity of digestive enzymes and affects the child's digestive function, eating greasy food at this time will not only fail to be absorbed, but will cause vomiting or diarrhea, aggravating the body's dehydration.

At this time, children should be given light, easily digestible food, such as porridge, vegetable soup, fruit juice, egg custard, etc. In addition, children should be given plenty of water to drink, preferably sugar and salt water. On the one hand, this can replenish lost water and electrolytes, and on the other hand, it can achieve the purpose of cooling down.

When a child has a high fever, the body's digestion and absorption functions are relatively weakened, the secretion of digestive enzymes is reduced, and the activity is relatively reduced. In addition, the high temperature in the body can easily denature proteins, making them difficult to digest and absorb. Therefore, when the fever is high, children can reduce their protein intake appropriately and drink more water. This problem can be solved by diluting the milk appropriately. And for children who don't want to drink water, this method can be used to replenish water.

Note: After the child's fever subsides, the medicine should be prepared according to the original proportion. If a child's body temperature exceeds 38°C, it is considered a fever. Before going to the hospital for treatment, parents can take the following emergency measures:

First, wear less clothes to allow your child to dissipate heat.

The traditional idea is that when a child has a fever, he or she should be wrapped tightly with clothes and quilts to "force" the sweat out. In fact, this is wrong. When children have a fever, they will shiver and parents may think that their children have chills, but in fact, this is because their increased body temperature causes convulsions.

Second, help your child cool down physically. There are the following common methods:

1. Cold wet compress on the head: Soak a soft towel in 20℃ - 30℃ cold water, squeeze it slightly to prevent dripping, fold it and place it on the forehead, change it every 3-5 minutes.

2. Head ice pillow: Fill the ice bag half full with small ice cubes and a small amount of water, squeeze the ice bag to expel the air inside the bag, press the bag opening tightly, and place it on the pillow after there is no water leakage.

3. Wipe with warm water or take a warm bath: Wipe the child's head, armpits, limbs with a warm and wet towel or take a warm bath for 10-15 minutes. Scrub the skin more to promote heat dissipation.

4. Alcohol bath: suitable for cooling down high fever. Prepare 200-300 ml of 20%-35% alcohol and use it to rub the limbs and back. Avoid rubbing the chest area, abdomen, back of the neck, and soles of the feet as these areas are more sensitive to cold and may cause adverse reactions. It is not suitable for newborns and infants because they have thin skin and abundant capillaries, and alcohol can be absorbed through the skin and cause alcohol poisoning.

5. Others: There is now a physical cooling drug patch that can effectively relieve children's fever.

Third, drink plenty of water and don’t take any medicine casually.

When the fever is high, breathing speeds up and sweating causes the body to lose a lot of water, so parents should give their children plenty of water when they have a fever, increase urine volume, and promote the excretion of toxins in the body. It is best not to give children medicine casually when they have a fever, because the cause of the child's fever is unknown and taking medicine casually may affect the doctor's diagnosis.

If the child's fever does not exceed 38.5℃, it is recommended to use only physical cooling. However, if it exceeds 38.5℃ or the child has a history of convulsions, antipyretics should be used in time. It is best for parents to choose acetaminophen and ibuprofen, which are the two most widely used drugs by pediatricians and have higher clinical safety.

Although these two types of antipyretic drugs are of two different types, they both have the function of relieving fever and relieving pain. When taking the medicine, you need to pay attention to the difference in dosage forms: acetaminophen products such as Benadryl and Tylenol have three dosage forms: drops, oral solution, and chewable tablets; ibuprofen products such as Motrin only have two dosage forms for children: drops and oral solution. For infants under 1 year old, it is best to use drops because the drug concentration in drops is low and the irritation is less.

The dosage of drops should be selected according to body weight. Generally, for babies aged 6 to 11 months, with a corresponding weight of 5.5 to 8 kg, use 1 dropper of antipyretic medicine. Babies aged 12-23 months, weighing about 8.1-12 kg, can take 1.5 droppers.

For children over 2 years old, it is best to take oral liquid antipyretics. For older children, tablets can be used. These fruit-flavored chewable tablets look like biscuits and children will not refuse to take them. In addition, antipyretics such as aspirin and paracetamol are highly irritating and have side effects on children. Indomethacin (indomethacin)-type drugs are highly irritating to the stomach and are not recommended.