What to do if your child has a fever and feels cold

Due to weather changes and unstable temperatures, it is easy for children to have a fever. This is mainly because children have relatively poor resistance and their body systems are not fully developed, so they will have a fever if they are not careful. Many times, if parents observe carefully, they will find that their children often say they feel cold when they have a fever, and their hands and feet are indeed cool when they touch them.

Why do children have a fever but say they are cold?

The child has a high fever but his hands and feet are cold. After the body temperature gradually drops, his hands and feet slowly become warm again. In fact, this is a phenomenon of false cold and true heat. It is a fever caused by inflammation of viral cold caused by wind and cold. Children's limbs contain less blood than their internal organs, and the blood supply to their limbs is insufficient, so they are more likely to feel cold than adults. At this time, don't wrap your child tightly with a quilt just because he or she is cold. As a result, the child's body temperature will not be dissipated in time and will continue to rise, leading to high fever and cramps, which will have an adverse effect on the child's physical recovery.

What to do if your child has a fever and feels cold

1. Take your temperature more often

If your child has a fever, you should pay attention to measuring their temperature more often. You should have a thermometer or ear thermometer at home. If the temperature is less than 38.5, drink more water and observe at all times.

2. Don’t wear or cover too much

When a child has a high fever, don't wear too many clothes or blankets, but don't let them get cold. Wearing too many clothes won't dissipate the heat. Generally, we can cool the child down by wiping her face, neck, pigeon nest, and thighs with a towel.

3. Take medicine

If the temperature is higher than 38.5, we need to give the child some antipyretics and then cooperate with the child's temperature reduction. If the temperature is reduced and the fever recurs, it will generally return to normal in 1-2 days;

4. Cold compress

If you have a sudden high fever, you can use cold compresses to help lower your body temperature. Place a cold wet towel on your forehead, wrist, and calf. When the cold compress reaches body temperature, change it. Repeat until the fever subsides. You can also wrap ice cubes in a cloth bag and place it on your forehead.

5. Warm bath

There is nothing more relaxing than taking a warm bath. It can also help relieve fever symptoms. Babies should be bathed in warm water or wrapped in a wet towel, which should be changed every 15 minutes.

6. Drink more boiled water

When you have a high fever, your body will sweat to dissipate heat, which will also cause water loss in the body. Drink plenty of boiled water and fruit and vegetable juice. Fruit and vegetable juice are rich in vitamins and minerals, especially beet juice and carrot juice, which can not only improve immunity but also replenish water. It helps relieve fever.

7. See a doctor

If you don't know what to do and are afraid that it will be serious and ineffective after you try it yourself, then you should go to the hospital and give your child medicine to reduce the fever as prescribed by the doctor. The child will get better if he cooperates with the medicine.