What to do if your baby has a fever due to favism

Favism is a relatively common disease. Infants and young children are the main group of patients who suffer from it. Babies with favism often have fever. At this time, you must be cautious in taking medicine. If the temperature does not exceed 38.5 degrees, you can use some physical cooling methods. If the temperature exceeds 38.5 degrees, you can use some medicines to reduce the temperature under the guidance of a doctor to avoid greater harm to your health.

What should I do if my baby with favism has a fever? More than 95% of children with favism belong to this type. When they have a fever, use antipyretic and analgesic capsules with caution to relieve pain, so as not to cause hemolytic disease. How to treat it? Use physical cooling and treatment targeted at the cause of the disease, and use traditional Chinese medicine massage and other methods to moisturize the skin and prevent it from cracking. Favism is caused by a lack of antihypertensive medication and then eating broad beans or coming into contact with broad bean pollen. The most common symptoms are what Chinese medicine calls liver qi attacking the stomach, recurrent fever 38, diarrhea, etc. It often occurs around 8-10 years old. The areola is enlarged. Take the baby to a regular hospital for fetal heart monitoring immediately to find out the cause and pathogenesis. It is very complicated. It is clearly diagnosed as chronic ulcerative colitis. Give the baby an infusion of anti-inflammatory and fire-removing medicine! Avoid eating broad beans or contact with chemical detergents and solvents.

Children generally must go to the hospital when their temperature does not exceed 38.5 degrees. There is no need to use antipyretics or intramuscular antipyretic injections. Just treat the symptoms according to the symptoms and they will not be relieved or will get worse. At this time, you can use a cool towel or ice pack through a dry cloth. Motrin and Tylenol did not reduce the high fever. The child will have a fever for 3-5 days. If the temperature is above 5 degrees, use Motrin to reduce fever, and if the temperature is 38 to 38-39 degrees. Alternate between 5 doses with Tylenol. One reason for recurrent fever is inflammation, and the antibiotics used may irritate the stomach. If the body temperature is high, you can take antipyretics such as Motrin orally to prevent symptoms of high fever convulsions. Physical cooling is also a good method.

What is favism? Favism is not common to people in the north. It often occurs in areas south of the Yangtze River. It is mainly an acute hemolytic disease that occurs after people with hereditary erythrocyte glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD enzyme) deficiency eat broad beans. It is also known as broad bean yellow and broad bean yellow. It is common in children, especially boys under 5 years old, accounting for about 90%. It often occurs in the season when broad beans mature. Eating broad beans or broad bean products (such as vermicelli and soy sauce) can cause the disease. Patients usually become ill within 24 to 48 hours after eating broad beans, with symptoms of acute intravascular hemolysis, general discomfort, fever, nausea, vomiting, rapid anemia, jaundice, hemoglobinuria, and severe hemolysis may lead to shock, oliguria, anuria, acidosis, and acute renal failure. Whether or not the disease will occur, and the severity of the disease has nothing to do with the number of broad beans eaten. Sometimes eating 1 or 2 beans may cause illness. Sometimes inhaling or contacting broad bean pollen can cause the disease. Sometimes even nursing mothers can eat broad beans and get sick through breast milk. The degree and symptoms of anemia in this disease are mostly severe. Symptoms usually last for 2 to 6 days. If anemia, hypoxia and electrolyte imbalance are not corrected in time, it can be fatal. But if you get timely treatment, you can escape danger and recover. In low-incidence areas, the disease is easily overlooked and missed. So far, there is no specific and curative drug. After the onset of the disease, the treatment is mainly symptomatic according to the condition. This requires patients with favism to avoid contact with inducing factors in daily life.

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