How to treat summer heat syndrome in children? What to do if your baby has summer heat syndrome?

How to treat children's summer heat syndrome? Summer heat syndrome is one of the common symptoms of babies. How should parents take care of their babies' summer heat symptoms? How to let the baby spend the hot summer safely? Today, let's share with you what should be done for babies with summer heat syndrome?

Methods for preventing and treating heatstroke in children

After we understand the causes of summer heat syndrome in children, we need to start from the root and find ways to prevent and treat summer heat syndrome in children.

1. Prepare breathable clothes for your children. In the hot summer, children's body heat dissipation function is insufficient. It is recommended that parents prepare more breathable and heat-dissipating clothes for their children. For example, you can choose clothes made of cotton, linen or pure cotton fabrics. These fabrics are highly absorbent and breathable. Clothes should not be too tight, and should be as loose as possible to make them more comfortable.

2. Bathing your child. To prevent and treat pediatric heatstroke, cooling the child's body is the key. Parents can also use the bathing method. We can put the child in the bathtub, and the water temperature in the bathtub should be set three degrees lower than the body temperature. The child's body temperature will also drop slightly when staying in the bathtub.

3. Prepare heat-reducing drinks for children. The weather is hot, the heat is high, the body temperature is high, and children's summer heat syndrome does make children feel very tired. At this time, they also need dietary conditioning to help children resist the disease. Mothers can prepare some heat-reducing foods, such as watermelon seeds or mung bean soup, etc. In terms of diet, it is better to try to be lighter.

4. Set the temperature of your child's room. To prevent and treat pediatric heatstroke, you need to keep your child in an environment with a suitable temperature. In summer, we usually stay in air-conditioned rooms, so we can set the temperature of the room. Generally, it is more appropriate to set the temperature to around 22 degrees. However, for the health of the child, the air conditioner cannot be blown towards the child. The child's physical resistance is relatively poor, so when resting in an air-conditioned room, it is also necessary to keep warm. When the temperature outside drops, you need to open the windows of the air-conditioned room for more ventilation.

5. Take heat-relief medicine under the doctor's instructions. If the child is still uncomfortable, we can take some heat-relief medicine under the doctor's guidance, and the amount of medicine should be controlled. We can also choose some more invigorating medicinal diets, which have few side effects and are beneficial to the child's health.

Generally speaking, children's summer heat symptoms will cause the child to have a fever, and the fever will last for a long time. Parents are likely to prepare antipyretics for their children, but in fact, antipyretics are not very effective. It is recommended that parents use a diet therapy method. Cool complementary foods can supplement the nutrients needed by the baby's body and can also clear away summer heat, which is the best choice.

What to eat for heat stroke

【Lotus Leaf Winter Melon Porridge】

Ingredients: Take two fresh lotus leaves, wash them and boil them into about 500 ml of soup, filter and set aside the juice.

practice:

Peel 250 grams of winter melon, cut into small pieces, add lotus leaf juice and 30 grams of glutinous rice, cook into porridge, add appropriate amount of white sugar, take in the morning and evening.

Efficacy: Winter melon can clear away heat, promote salivation, and quench thirst, while lotus leaves can clear away heat and relieve summer heat.

Suitable for: Babies with persistent fever, thirst and little urine.

【Qi-boosting and heat-clearing porridge】

Ingredients: 1g American ginseng, 10g Adenophora chinensis, 10g Dendrobium officinale, 5g Anemarrhena asphodeloides, and 30g polished rice.

practice:

First, wrap the Radix Adenophorae, Dendrobium, and Rhizoma Anemarrhenae in a cloth and boil them in water for 30 minutes, remove the residue and keep the juice for later use. Then grind the American ginseng into powder, add it to the juice with polished rice and cook it into porridge, add sugar for seasoning, and take it in the morning and evening.

Efficacy: American ginseng replenishes qi and nourishes yin, while northern adenophora, dendrobium and anemarrhena nourish yin, clear away heat and quench thirst.

Suitable for people: Suitable for children with persistent fever, thirst, no sweat or little sweat.

【Silkworm cocoon and mountain bean porridge】

Ingredients: 10 silkworm cocoons, 10 red dates, 30 grams of yam, 30 grams of glutinous rice, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

practice:

First, boil 500 ml of silkworm cocoon soup, filter the liquid and remove the residue. Then remove the core of the red dates, add yam and japonica rice and cook into porridge. Take it once in the morning and evening.

Efficacy: Silkworm cocoons quench thirst and detoxify, while yam and red dates strengthen the spleen and stomach.

Suitable for people: Suitable for children with low fever, fatigue, decreased appetite, and loose stools.

Basic symptoms of heat stroke

1. Body temperature: between 38 and 40℃, which can be persistent, remittent or irregular fever. The hotter the weather, the higher the body temperature. The fever period can last for 1 to 3 months, and it will naturally drop when the weather is cool. Pediatricians in Wuhan have observed some children with persistent fever, and their body temperature dropped to normal after they moved to Lushan.

2. Polydipsia and polyuria: Although the children have sweat gland dysfunction, their renal function is normal. Therefore, they have polyuria, clear and frequent urination. Although the urine volume is not as much as that of diabetes insipidus, it can reach more than 20 times a day and night. It does not contain protein, and the urine specific gravity is usually below 1.008. Due to the decrease in interstitial water, saliva secretion decreases, causing thirst and polydipsia, and the daily drinking volume can reach more than 3L.

3. Little or no sweating: Most people do not sweat, and sometimes there is a little sweat on the head at the onset of the disease.

4. Other conditions: At the beginning of the disease, the patient is generally in good condition and does not look sick. Occasionally, there may be indigestion or cold-like symptoms, but most of them are not serious. Physical examination shows no other positive signs except for a slight congestion of the pharynx. When the fever is high, startle and drowsiness may be seen, and serious neurological symptoms are rare. When the fever persists, loss of appetite, pallor, emaciation, restlessness, and chronic illness may be seen. Except for an increase in the percentage of lymphocytes in some cases, laboratory test results are mostly within the normal range.

5. Course of disease: Most cases last 1 to 2 months, but may last up to 3 to 4 months, until the fever and other symptoms gradually subside after leaving the high temperature environment or the cool autumn.

Heatstroke is easy to diagnose in patients with a history of exposure to high temperatures or the sun and the above clinical manifestations. Heatstroke can be diagnosed when the patient has a fever for a long time but is generally in good condition and other causes of fever are excluded.