Treatment Of Fever In Children

What should a mother do when her child had a fever?

Fever Treatment Without Medicament:

1. Rest your child because the activity can increase the fever.
2. Cover the child with a light blanket if the child is cold or shivering.
3. Give your child extra fluids such as water, juice, or milk. If the child does not want to drink, give fluids child whatever he wants.
4. Put the clothes that are thin or just put the clothes in so that children will release heat through the skin.
5. Compress the child with warm water on the forehead, neck, armpits, chest. Do not let it dry on the child's body compress, compress lift when half dry, dip again in warm water, wring it out, put in body anak.Jangan using alcohol as a pack of children. Alcohol can cause a loss of heat too quickly, causing intoxication or alcohol poisoning.
6. If your child is still eating, drinking, and playing as usual, he may not need a febrifuge.

Fever Treatment With Medicament:

1. Discuss with your doctor before
2. Give paracetamol every four hours or six times a day.
3. Read the label and follow the instructions appropriate to the age and weight of children.
4. Do not give aspirin to children under 16 years because it can cause serious illness such as Reye's syndrome can cause brain and liver damage.

When should I see a doctor?

1. Contact your doctor if the child has a fever and loss of appetite, headache, vomiting or abdominal pain, crying more than usual, pain in the throat, difficulty breathing, ear pain, and pain when urinating
2. Call your doctor if your baby's fever with rectal temperature higher than 38 degrees Celsius, and are under the age of three months
3. Call your doctor if your child's temperature at the age of three months to three years to reach the temperature at 39 degrees Celsius or more.

Common cold will not last more than three days. Contact your doctor if your child's temperature does not go down after three days and have done all the above measures.