How to take care of roseola infantum? What are the symptoms of roseola infantum?

Roseola infantum is an acute infectious disease that is easy to appear in early childhood. It generally has several fixed characteristics and is easily transmitted to other children. Therefore, once it appears, it should be isolated from other children. So, what should we do during the care process?

How to care for infantile rash

1. Babies should rest more, avoid strenuous play, and suspend physical exercise.

2. Drink more water and add appropriate amount of fruit juice. This will increase the intake of vitamins, facilitate sweating and urination, and promote the excretion of toxins.

3. During the illness, the baby should eat easily digestible food. For babies who can already eat solid food, they can eat liquid or semi-liquid food. But be careful to make sure it is nutritious.

4. It is not recommended to drink sweetened water with high sugar content. The baby’s appetite will be poor at this time, which will affect the baby’s appetite.

5. Deliberately and appropriately supplement vitamin C and vitamin B.

6. The place where the baby rests should be quiet, and the air should be well circulated and kept fresh.

7. The quilt should not be too thick or too many, as this will not be conducive to heat dissipation.

8. When the body temperature exceeds 39 degrees, you can use warm water or 37% alcohol to wipe the child's body to prevent high fever convulsions. (Alcohol is not recommended for cooling down babies. If parents do not know the alcohol concentration, it is not recommended for older babies as it is irritating to the skin.)

9. Roseola infantum is one of the few diseases in which the baby can go out to play and be exposed to the wind when the rash appears. However, Chinese medicine believes that the baby's constitution is weak at this time. If the baby sweats a lot, it is not recommended to go out to be exposed to the wind.

10. At this time, some babies may be very dependent on their mothers and want to stay in their mothers' arms all the time. This may be due to the baby's psychological needs caused by the disease. So mothers should try their best to meet the baby's psychological needs, which is also conducive to the parent-child relationship.

There are 8 typical symptoms of infantile rash

1. It is often a sudden high fever, with the body temperature rising rapidly to 39℃ to 40℃, and the fever will continue for three or four days.

2. The fever goes away after taking antipyretic drugs, but comes back again once the effect of the drugs wears off.

3. Compared with children with colds and high fevers, the children’s spirits and appetite are better.

4. When the fever is high, most people will have diarrhea and watery stools, but rarely have a runny nose or cough, or the symptoms may be mild.

5. Routine blood examination showed a decrease in white blood cells and a significant increase in lymphocytes.

6. You can feel lumps the size of soybeans or peanuts behind your ears and pillow.

7. When the fever subsides, pink macules or maculopapules of varying sizes appear, which fade when pressed. They start on the trunk and quickly spread to the whole body, especially on the waist and buttocks. The rash disappears in 1 to 2 days, without any pigmentation or desquamation.

8. Most of the children are between 6 and 12 months old, and 50% to 60% of them develop the disease when they are 8 to 10 months old.