How to deal with high fever convulsions

Children under three years old will often have a high fever that won't go away. A child's severe high fever may persist to over 39 degrees. An adult's high fever of 39 degrees can be reduced by taking medicine and giving intravenous drips, but a child's high fever cannot be treated with medication casually, as this will aggravate the condition. A severe high fever can cause the body to overheat, leading to convulsions and seizures, respiratory infections and other infections, and neurological spasms, which can easily leave sequelae. In severe cases, it can also lead to meningitis, which affects intelligence. So when a baby has a high fever and convulsions, active measures should be taken to deal with it.

Baby febrile convulsion refers to the baby in the early stage of respiratory infection or other infectious diseases

When a baby has a high fever of 39 degrees or above, and the body temperature rises suddenly, it usually manifests as systemic convulsions and is prone to convulsions. When the disease occurs, the child will have symptoms of systemic convulsions and upturned eyes. It is more common in children between 6 months and 4 years old. Simple febrile convulsions have a good prognosis, while complex febrile convulsions have a poor prognosis.

How to deal with febrile convulsions in babies?

1. When the baby has a febrile convulsion, parents must remain calm and not panic. Under normal circumstances, the child's febrile convulsion will be relieved in 3-5 minutes. Therefore, when the child loses consciousness and has systemic symmetrical tonic-clonic spasms or convulsions, parents should not rush to take the child to the hospital, but should wait until the child regains consciousness before going to the hospital.

2. Parents should remain calm and keep quiet. It is forbidden to give children any unnecessary stimulation. Keep the airway open, lay the child flat with the head tilted to one side. If there is foaming or vomiting, the oral secretions and vomit should be cleaned up in time. The side-lying position should prevent mucus and food from entering the trachea and causing suffocation or aspiration pneumonia.

3. When the baby's upper and lower teeth are clenched, it is very important to prevent the child from biting his tongue. Find a toothbrush handle or chopsticks, wrap them with gauze, and place them between the upper and lower molars, then quickly send the child to the hospital's pediatric department for emergency treatment.

4. If the convulsion continues, parents should not panic. They should immediately pinch and press the Ren Zhong point under the child's nose with their fingernails, or press the Hegu point between the thumb and index finger, and the Nei Guan point and other acupoints for two or three minutes to stop the convulsion.

1. Strengthen nutrition, eat a balanced diet, combine meat and vegetables, and eat both coarse and fine foods. Correct the child's picky eating and anorexia habits and avoid food accumulation.

2. High fever convulsions are common in children with poor physical constitution, so they should strengthen physical exercise on a daily basis to enhance the body's immunity; at the same time, pay attention to adding or removing clothes in time to prevent upper respiratory tract infections.

3. Avoid contact with infection. Do not go to crowded public places, do not smoke indoors, and keep the air circulating. You can rinse your mouth with warm salt water.

4. Always have antipyretics on hand, observe and measure body temperature, and take antipyretics orally once it reaches 38°C to prevent convulsions caused by high fever.

5. Prevent children from catching colds on a regular basis. When the weather changes, add or remove clothes appropriately to avoid catching cold.

6. When children who have had a febrile convulsion catch a cold, parents should closely observe their body temperature changes. Once the temperature reaches above 38°C, they should actively reduce the fever. There are two ways to reduce fever: one is physical cooling; the other is drug cooling.

Warm reminder: Febrile convulsions in children are a manifestation of the child's incomplete brain function development. Usually, it is induced by high fever and there is no big problem. It can be treated by timely controlling the body temperature and relieving spasms and convulsions. It will not have much impact. Prevention is the main focus, and attention should be paid to strengthening nutrition and exercise, preventing colds, and symptomatic treatment should be given in time if fever occurs. Generally, this situation will gradually disappear as the child grows older.