Symptoms of heatstroke in babies. What should I do if my baby has heatstroke?

What are the symptoms of heat stroke in babies? What should we do if our babies have heat stroke? Here we will introduce the symptoms of heat stroke in babies in detail. Heat stroke is a common symptom in summer, and parents do not need to worry too much.

What is heatstroke?

Summer heat syndrome is a common disease in summer for babies. Summer heat syndrome is medically called summer fever in children. It mainly occurs in hot summer. It is not because the baby is infected with bacteria and has a fever, but because the body temperature rises due to the increase in the external environment, so some people call it "summer high fever syndrome". The body temperature is generally between 38-40℃, and the hotter the weather, the higher the fever. It lasts for 1-3 months until the weather gradually cools down.

Symptoms: 1. Clinically, it is characterized by long-term fever, thirst, polydipsia, polyuria, less sweating or sweat retention. 2. At the beginning of the disease, the heat damages the lungs and stomach, and the actual symptoms are serious. Symptoms such as long-term fever, thirst, polydipsia, polyuria, etc. can be seen. 3. In addition to the typical manifestations of summer heat syndrome, symptoms such as pale complexion, cold lower limbs, and loose stools can also be seen. Treatment: Baby summer heat syndrome can be wiped or soaked with warm water. The child can be wiped or soaked 2 to 3 times a day, each time for 20 to 30 minutes. For children with high fever, white wine can be used for wiping. Diet therapy: 1. 15 grams each of mung beans and lentils, 50 grams of glutinous rice. Add water to the two beans and cook them until they are almost cooked, then add polished rice to cook porridge, and add a little white sugar before taking it. 2. Take half a fresh lotus leaf, 15 grams of Prince ginseng, 100 grams of polished rice, add water to cook porridge, discard the lotus leaf when the porridge is cooked, and take it twice. 3. Cook porridge with half a fresh lotus leaf, 20 grams of coix seed and 50 grams of polished rice. Remove the lotus leaf when the porridge is cooked and add a little sugar. This recipe is suitable for people with greasy tongue coating. 4. 250 grams of water chestnut and 25 grams of honeysuckle. Peel and mash the water chestnut, boil the juice with honeysuckle and drink it instead of tea.

Prevention: 1. When the weather is hot, do not dress your baby too much or too thickly to avoid affecting the body's heat dissipation. Pay attention to adjusting the ambient temperature, such as using an air conditioner or living in a cool place; 2. When the baby has a fever, immediately place the baby in a room with a room temperature of 22℃-25℃ after confirming the heat syndrome. Giving the baby a warm bath also has a cooling effect, but be careful that the water temperature should be 3℃-4℃ lower than body temperature. Bath for 20-30 minutes each time, and wash 2-3 times a day; 3. Pay attention to giving the baby some watermelon juice, mung bean soup, winter melon water and other beverages to replenish the body's lost water, and give a light diet; under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine, take some Chinese patent medicines or medicated foods that can clear away heat and replenish qi, nourish yin and clear heat to prevent and treat heat syndrome.

How old is the baby prone to heat stroke?

A baby's fever is not necessarily a cold

In summer, some babies will have long-term fever, which is neither caused by external factors nor by other reasons. All examination items are normal. In addition to the common cold symptoms, the baby also has thirst, irritability, dizziness, headache, vomiting, nausea, fatigue and weakness, with fever as the main symptom. After excluding infectious diseases, doctors usually diagnose it as summer heat syndrome, also known as summer fever.

"Summer heat syndrome" is a heat syndrome that is easy to occur in infants and young children in summer. It is caused by the rise in external environment, which leads to the rise in body temperature, so some people also call it "summer high fever syndrome". The body temperature is generally between 38℃ and 40℃. The hotter the weather, the higher the fever. As the weather gradually cools down, this disease will naturally disappear.

Heatstroke affects babies under 3 years old

Most of the patients who suffer from heatstroke are babies under 3 years old. This is because the temperature regulation center in their brains has not yet matured, so their body temperature cannot regulate itself as the external temperature rises. Their sweat glands are also insufficient, so they sweat less and cannot easily dissipate heat.

The symptoms of summer heat syndrome are very characteristic. The fever rarely exceeds 40℃ and usually changes with the external environment temperature. Many babies have a fever pattern that starts in the early morning, gradually rises during the day, gradually drops in the afternoon, reaches the lowest point in the evening, and starts to rise again in the early morning of the next day. Babies who have suffered from summer heat syndrome are prone to have it every year.

If your baby has a fever, don't rush to give him antipyretics

Parents are very worried when they see their baby has a fever, and usually give the baby medicine immediately to lower the body temperature. This countermeasure is effective for common bacterial or viral colds, but it is not effective for summer heat syndrome because the causes are different.

The mechanism of antipyretics is to paralyze the central nervous system to lower the body temperature, while promoting sweat secretion and accelerating the drop in body temperature. However, the immune system is not awakened and does not resist at all, which causes the external pathogens to accumulate in the body and increases the difficulty of treatment. Many babies have repeated attacks after using antipyretics, with each fever being higher than the last, because the cause of the disease in the body has not been eliminated, and the central nervous system strengthens its resistance again after awakening, and this happens repeatedly.

Fever is a necessary protective mechanism of the human body. Giving babies antipyretics at random can easily create a false impression, cover up symptoms, make the disease difficult to diagnose, and even aggravate the disease. Especially for newborns with fever, antipyretics should never be used at will, because the newborn's body temperature regulation function is not perfect, and changes in environmental temperature, overheating, cold, etc. can all cause fever. If you use drugs to reduce the temperature at will, it will have a great impact on the baby's future health.

Therefore, when babies show cold symptoms or the above symptoms of summer heat in summer, parents should not give their babies antipyretics at will.

How to prevent heat stroke

1. When bathing your child, the water temperature should be 2-3℃ lower than the child’s body temperature.

2. You can give your child some cool drinks, such as watermelon juice, mung bean soup, or winter melon soup. Try to eat a lighter diet.

3. Let your child wear some breathable clothes. The clothes should not be too tight, but loose.

4. The temperature of the child's room should be set at around 22-24℃, but the air outlet of the air conditioner should not be facing the child. In addition, when in an air-conditioned room, you should help your child keep warm and pay attention to ventilation in the air-conditioned room.

5. Under the guidance of a doctor, you can give your child some Chinese medicine or medicated food that can clear away heat and replenish qi.