What to do if your child has a fever and shivers

When a person has a high fever to a certain stage, he or she will experience shivering and convulsions. This is a spasm of nerve function caused by the high fever, which may also lead to some cardiovascular and heart functional diseases. If the symptoms of fever persist and are severe, the patient should go to the hospital for examination in time. It is very important to provide treatment to reduce the high fever, because fever is not a small problem.

What is the cause of fever and shivering?

Shivering during a fever often occurs when the patient has a high fever. Under the action of bacterial or viral toxins, the body's muscle nerves are in an excited state, causing tremors, convulsions, etc. It may be nerve stimulation caused by high fever or cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, which lead to shivering. Therefore, if you have symptoms of fever and shivering, you should seek medical attention promptly, conduct relevant examinations to determine the cause, and give active treatment for the high fever.

When you have a fever, you should actively deal with the cause of the fever. This is the fundamental way to solve the problem of fever. For example, in the case of infectious fever, effective drugs should be selected for treatment according to the source of infection. Dehydrated patients should be actively rehydrated. If a drug reaction occurs, the drug should be discontinued immediately and anti-allergic treatment should be carried out. For infectious fever, fever itself is one of the manifestations of the body's immune system clearing heat from the source of infection. Unless the fever is high and the patient is in severe discomfort and strongly requests it, there is usually no rush to use antipyretic drugs. For patients with high fever, cooling treatment must be carried out, which can be done by physical cooling or drug cooling.

Fever is a common disease in children, but mothers are still very worried when their babies have a fever. Some babies shiver when they have a fever. Due to lack of medical knowledge, parents always feel helpless when their children have a fever and shiver, which is very painful. So is a child’s fever and shivering a convulsion?

In fact, convulsions are a very common disease among children. To understand whether fever and shivering are convulsions, of course, you need to have a certain understanding of the symptoms of convulsions. Children experiencing convulsions may be extremely irritable or "startle" from time to time, be nervous, look terrified, have a sudden rise in body temperature, and a drastic change in complexion; their breathing may suddenly become rapid, stopped, or irregular; and their pupils may be of varying sizes. These are the symptoms of a child's convulsion. Therefore, the possibility of children having convulsions when they have a fever and shiver is very high.

The onset of seizures in children

Children's seizures make parents very worried, so everyone wants to know something about this. The convulsions caused by fever in children are commonly called febrile convulsions. Moreover, this condition is divided into two types: simple type and complex type according to the age of onset, severity of convulsions, neurological signs, etc.

Simple convulsions usually begin between 4 months and 4 years old. Convulsions occur soon after high fever and last for 5-10 minutes. Convulsions are systemic. The nervous system is normal before and after the attack. The EEG returns to normal one week after the fever subsides.

Complex seizures last for more than 15-30 minutes. The seizures are systemic or focal, and there may be neurological signs. Seizures occur 2 or more times during one fever. They may occur in children under 6 months old or over 6 years old. This type is only a minority.

Convulsions can easily cause complications, so mothers should pay special attention at this time. Once the child has a severe fever, they should go to the hospital for treatment immediately. Do not use medication indiscriminately, otherwise it will have adverse effects on the child. Everyone should also note that patients with convulsions should pay more attention to rest and avoid eating spicy food. This can effectively control the disease.