Cold towel on forehead. Towel on the head from the temperature

Breast cold wrap

Very effective tool a gradual but harmless decrease in temperature is a cold wrap.

Take two linen (kitchen) towels, fold in half lengthwise, soak one towel in cool (moreover, the higher the temperature, the colder the water should be) water, squeeze lightly (so as not to drip), wrap with a second (dry) towel, wrap on top woolen scarf, put the patient to bed for 30-40 minutes. On top of this wrap, you can put a shirt and sweater on the child and allow him to play in bed. Then remove the towel, take a warm shower and leave the patient for another 30 minutes to rest in bed.

You can do the so-called "three-quarter" wrap, that is, wrap the torso from the armpits to the groin, everything else is the same. This wrap is more effective and is also used to gradually reduce fever in acute colds. This wrap can be repeated two or three times a day. It is best to make it for children at the time of daytime sleep and leave until the child wakes up. In general, one must remember the sacred rule: no matter how healing and useful procedure was not done to restore the health of a child and an adult, you should never wake up the patient, since rest and sleep are one of the most healing "medicines" that nature has "invented" for recovery.

It should be remembered that just as a patient cannot recover from one aspirin tablet, so there cannot be an instant “miraculous” effect from one wrap. The temperature will drop a little, it will become easier for the patient to breathe, his condition will improve, especially if after wrapping you take - only quickly - a warm shower, but in the evening, if you do not follow other recommendations used in a non-specific approach, the temperature may rise again. One or even two more times (at intervals so that the patient rests) a three-quarter wrap should be done, take a warm shower after it, rub yourself in, go to bed and drink diaphoretic tea (see below) with honey or raspberry jam.

It is possible - at a very high temperature - before wrapping, wipe the patient with a sponge or linen towel dipped in cold water, and then make a cold wrap on a wet body, and the higher the temperature, the colder the water should be. To speed up the decrease in temperature, you can add vinegar to cold water at the rate of 1-2 tablespoons of vinegar (not vinegar essence!) Per 1/2 liter of water (depending on age). Wiping is best done right in bed, after which the patient should immediately do a wrap, warmly wrap up and give him diaphoretic tea.

Rubdown at high temperature

In the old book by S. Kneipp “My hydrotherapy”, it is recommended that during the most severe epidemics of influenza (“influenza” in the terminology of that time), at a high temperature every half an hour, put a patient stripped to the waist in bed and very quickly wipe him to the waist - chest, sides, back , hands, neck - with a kitchen towel soaked in cold water and carefully wrung out, after which, without wiping dry, put the patient in bed and wrap it very warmly. In this case, it is necessary to give the patient a tablespoon of cold water, juice, fruit drink or compote to drink.

Full cold wrap

A more efficient procedure that reduces high temperature and enhancing the release of sweat, is the complete wrapping of the entire body: lay a woolen blanket on the bed, on top, stepping back a little from the edge, put a dry sheet or canvas (the rougher and more porous the material, the more effective the wrapping; canvas or a harsh canvas is best), over it put another sheet soaked in cold water and carefully wrung out. It is important to remember that the higher the body temperature, the lower the water temperature should be. With a lower temperature and a feeling of chill (sometimes in deep chronics the flu occurs in such a temperatureless form), the water should be warmer and there should be more blankets on top. At very high temperatures, you can divide the temperature reduction procedure into two stages (in fact, into three, because at temperatures above 38C, you must first do an enema - see below for details - and then do the wrapping). First, wipe the patient from head to toe with a wet towel or throw a quickly cold wet sheet over him, rub him very vigorously with your hands over this sheet, and then lay him naked on another wet sheet prepared over a woolen blanket and a dry sheet on the bed, quickly wrap , and each leg must be wrapped separately, in a separate edge of the wet sheet (the arms can lie along the body, but then a wet fold should be laid between them and the body), quickly wrap the dry sheet on top of the wet sheet, then a warm blanket, and it is advisable to put something else warm. After all that has been done, the patient lies swaddled, like a nursing baby, only his head is free. If there are complaints about headache, you can put a kitchen towel (folded to the size of your forehead) on your forehead, also soaked in cold water. To speed up the sweating process, you can mix cold water with vinegar in the above proportion.

For small children who do not like having their hands tied, you can only wrap the torso from the armpits and below in a damp sheet, and wrap it in a dry and warm one already with your hands. Warming occurs very quickly, especially if a hot heating pad is placed between the blanket and the damp sheet at the feet. In case of diseased kidneys, one more heating pad should be put to the kidneys, in case of a diseased liver - to the liver. A mother or grandmother, being near a wrapped child, should drink hot diaphoretic tea with honey or raspberry jam at this time.

If they want the patient to simply drop the temperature without sweating, then it is enough to lie down for 10-15 minutes. A wet general wrap for an hour and a half (until sweat comes out on the forehead) is a strong diaphoretic procedure. After profuse sweating, it is imperative to wipe the patient with a damp towel soaked in warm water, and it is best to take a warm shower, and do not unfold the sheets until you stand under water. Only courageous people, who are accustomed to contrasting temperature changes, can take a cold shower or pour themselves after a general wrap. cold water. After a shower, you need to rub yourself well and go to bed. You can repeat diaphoretic tea.

It is very useful for small children to be accustomed to wrapping in advance, turning it into a game: “heal dolls” or animals, wrap them together with a toy in a dry one just to fill their hands, and in case of illness, do the wrapping quickly and deftly. Small children generally tolerate a three-quarter wrap much more easily, i.e. when only the torso is wrapped with a damp towel or a piece of canvas from the armpits to the groin, then a dry towel, and on top they are wrapped in a woolen scarf or scarf. At the same time, wet, soaked in cold water and wrung out cotton socks are put on the feet, and woolen socks on top. Right on top of the wrap on the child, as already mentioned, you can put on a shirt and a sweater, and then he does not feel constrained and can safely play in bed. Such a wrap is effective not only at elevated temperatures, but also with stomach pains of an ulcerative, gastritis or enterocolitis nature, unless, of course, the doctor has ruled out the possibility of appendicitis.

For sick kidneys, you need to put a hot heating pad under the kidneys and give diaphoretic tea to drink, which must necessarily include "kidney" herbs. In the book "My hydrotherapy" Sebastian Kneipp advised taking an ordinary clean bag (only in our time you need to make sure that it is made of real canvas, and not synthetic). In such a bag, wetted and squeezed out, the patient can quickly climb without outside help and wrap himself warmly on top in a warm blanket. In cold water with vinegar, you can soak a cotton robe or even a simple tracksuit, and something woolen on top and wrap yourself up very warmly. With any variant of the general wrap, the following rules must be observed: wrap yourself warmly, do not forget about heating pads and diaphoretic tea, in no case wake up if the patient falls asleep in the wrap, which, by the way, happens very often, be sure to take a shower after the wrap and at least rest for half an hour, do not go outside after wrapping, do not wait for a “miracle”, but patiently continue wrapping for several days in a row, each time improving your well-being and health.

Of course, mothers who want to try non-drug ways to reduce fever with wraps on their children should first try this procedure on themselves to make sure it is safe and effective. They will feel that the compress quickly becomes warm. This is explained by the fact that from cold water capillaries, the smallest blood vessels (if they are stretched in one line, they will stretch for 100,000 km!) Instantly narrow and then reflexively expand, blood begins to flow through them faster, and with it to the skin The accumulated slag wastes also come to the cover, which are released outside with sweat. It should always be remembered that a short-term exposure to cold water gives a tonic, activating blood circulation effect (remember how the skin burns if you rub yourself with snow!), And long-term use of warm and hot water (you need to be careful with the latter!) Gives a relaxing effect, relieves tension, stress and gives a feeling of relaxation.

With SARS and influenza, analgin and aspirin should not be given to children - these drugs increase vasospasm and can damage the kidneys

They say that it is not necessary to bring down a high temperature in case of respiratory viral diseases: it indicates that interferon is produced in the body, which helps fight microbes.

At the same time, there were cases when, due to the heat, children developed cerebral edema and convulsions, says the head of the pediatric department of the younger age of the City Children's Clinical Hospital No. 2 in Kyiv, a doctor the highest category Lydia Pobedimskaya. - The younger the child, the higher the risk of such a complication. If the baby already had convulsions during a fever, then the temperature should not be allowed to rise above 37.5 degrees. In older children, it is advisable to pay attention to the complexion: if it turns red, then the temperature can not be reduced. Paleness and sweating indicate that the vessels are spasmodic and blood circulation is disturbed. Such a child must be brought down the fever.

What is the best way to do this?

Previously, with a cold, mainly analgin or aspirin was prescribed. Today, scientists have come to the conclusion that these drugs should not be used to reduce fever, as they increase vasospasm and can harm the kidneys. With ARVI, it is advisable for a child to give drugs from the group of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs based on nurofen, ibuprofen or paracetamol, carefully observing the dosage prescribed by the doctor. With their help, you can slow down the inflammatory process and reduce the temperature. The effect of such drugs will be in a few hours. Not all parents know this and try to speed up the process by giving the child a large dose or multiple drugs on the same basis. As a result, the child ends up in the hospital not only with a high temperature, but also with drug poisoning. A wet towel or napkins will help to quickly remove the heat - they are placed on the forehead, armpits, in the groin area, where large blood vessels pass. After a while, the towel and napkins are moistened with water and put back on. With a fever, you can not cover the child with a blanket that is too warm - it is better that he be undressed.

During illness, the baby usually eats poorly, complains of nausea, even vomiting sometimes occurs.

The cause may be intoxication of the body from viral infection, pill poisoning, heavy food, liver enzyme deficiency. Vomiting is also a sign of inflammation of the meninges, so you should definitely call a doctor. Before his arrival, it is necessary to replenish the loss of fluid in the child's body: every two to three minutes, give him a teaspoon of ordinary water, tea, non-carbonated mineral water. If the baby drinks a cup of water in one gulp, then vomiting will occur again. The smaller the portion, the greater the chance that the liquid will be absorbed. You can use a solution of rehydron (package per liter of water) - it replenishes the salt balance well.

What to do if the baby has seizures due to a high temperature? Will rubbing the body with vinegar, alcohol or vodka help bring down the heat? What measures should be taken to protect against infections? Do I need to boost my child's immunity?

To these and other questions of our readers today, October 23, from 15.00 to 16.00 Lidia Anatolyevna Pobedimskaya will answer the FACTS direct line.

Sapa Irina Yurievna

In children, compared with adults, an increase in body temperature (hyperthermia) is observed more often. This is due to the insufficient development of the thermoregulation center in babies.

The most common causes of fever in children are:

  • acute infectious diseases (ARVI, pneumonia, intestinal infections);
  • dehydration of the body;
  • overheating;
  • defeat of the central nervous system.

Normal body temperature, measured in the armpit in a child older than a year or in the femoral fold in babies up to a year, ranges from 36 to 37 degrees, but on average - 36.6 0. The temperature in the mouth and in the rectum (anal temperature) is 1 degree higher.

An increase in body temperature in the armpit from 37 to 38 degrees is called subfebrile, from 38 to 39 degrees - febrile, from 39 to 40.5 - pyretic (from Greek pyretos - fever), and above 40.5 - hyperpyretic.

The main periods of development of hyperthermia:

    gradual increase in temperature (initial period). Often accompanied by chills, headache, general condition. In children of the first year of life, vomiting often precedes a rise in temperature;

    period of maximum increase. There is a further deterioration in the general condition: there is a feeling of heaviness in the head, a feeling of heat, severe weakness, aches all over the body. Often there is excitement, convulsions are possible. Sometimes delusions and hallucinations appear. During this period, the child should not be left alone in bed without the supervision of any of the family members, as children may fall out of bed or hit themselves;

    period of decrease in body temperature. The process can be critical (crisis) or lytic (lysis). A rapid drop in body temperature, for example from 40 to 36 degrees, is called critical. A gradual decrease is lytic. With a critical decrease, there is a sharp decrease in vascular tone and blood pressure. The pulse becomes weak, thready. The child develops severe weakness, profuse sweating, hands and feet become cold to the touch. With a gradual (lytic) decrease in temperature, a slight perspiration and moderate weakness appear. As a rule, the child falls asleep peacefully.

From what period of the process the child also depends on medical procedures that can be carried out at home before the baby is examined by a doctor and the use of antipyretic medications.

Help in the initial period of fever:

  • the child should be put to bed;
  • cover carefully;
  • apply a warm heating pad to the legs;
  • provide an influx of fresh cool air, but without drafts;
  • drink tea. If the baby refuses tea, offer other drinks (compote, juice, rosehip infusion);

Help during the period of maximum temperature increase:

    continue to give the baby plenty to drink: give liquid in the form of fruit juices, fruit drinks, mineral water, herbal infusions. With an increase in body temperature above 37 degrees for each degree, an additional 10 ml of liquid per 1 kg of body weight is required (approximately 20-30% more than the usual volume). For example, an 8-month-old child with a body weight of 8 kg at a temperature of 39 degrees needs 160 ml of liquid in addition to the daily diet;

    do not insist on food in the absence of appetite. The nutrition of a child at a high temperature should be gentle, with the restriction of animal proteins (meat, milk). It is better to feed the baby more often and in small portions;

    if dry mouth and cracks appear on the lips, then they should be lubricated with a weak solution of soda (1 teaspoon per glass of warm boiled water), petroleum jelly or other fat;

    cold is used on the head with a severe headache - they put an ice pack, but always through a diaper or a linen towel folded in 3-4 layers. At home, you can use water-filled and pre-frozen heating pads or small plastic bottles. Today, in pharmacies, you can buy special packages of gel (more often this inert gel has a blue color), which, after cooling in the refrigerator, are used on any area of ​​the body. The use of such gel packs is very convenient, as they take on the shape of the part of the body on which they are applied and can be reused;

    cold compresses with cold water can also be applied to the forehead area, but they should be moistened repeatedly and changed as they heat up (approximately every 2-4 minutes). It is better to use alternately two napkins. While one is placed on a zone of high temperature, the second cools in cold water. You can use vinegar water for compresses (1 tablespoon per liter of water).;

    in the armpits and in the femoral folds, pressing a little leg to the stomach, put small bottles of ice (10-20 ml), wrapped in gauze;

    when the temperature rises above 38 degrees, the child should be opened, you can blow it with a fan;

    apply wiping the skin with an alcohol or vinegar solution.

How to do wiping a child in order to reduce the temperature:

    prepare a small container of 200-300 ml;

    pour 50 grams of alcohol or vodka there;

    add the same volume of water;

    moisten a gauze napkin or a piece of cloth measuring 20x20 or 30x30 cm;

    wring out a napkin;

    wipe the skin of the child (chest, abdomen, back, hips) with a moistened cloth, especially carefully rubbing the palms, soles, the inner surface of the arms and legs. In young children, the skin is very delicate, so wiping should be carried out so as not to injure the skin. The alcohol solution quickly evaporates from the surface of the body and due to this, heat transfer increases and the temperature decreases. For vinegar wipes, one tablespoon of vinegar (but not vinegar essence) is added to one liter of cold water. You can use apple cider vinegar in the same proportion. Rubbing can be repeated every 1.5-2 hours. If the child sweats, it is necessary to change underwear every time.

    after wiping, the child is dressed in ordinary pajamas;

    put the baby to bed. Do not wrap children very warmly, as a repeated increase in temperature is possible.

Recently, questions have been discussed about the advisability of using vinegar compresses and vinegar rubdowns in hyperthermia. Some authors believe that the external use of acidic or alcoholic solutions increases intoxication. However, in my many years of practice, I have not had to deal with the aggravation of the child's condition when using two or three acetic or alcohol rubbing during the day. Repeated persistent increase in body temperature after physical cooling requires the use of medications.

In the event that a child is difficult to tolerate an increase in temperature or he had convulsions against this background (the so-called febrile convulsions), then you should start lowering the temperature already at 37.5-37.8 o, without waiting for the rise to 38 degrees.

Help with a quick critical temperature drop:

  • the child needs to be warmed;
  • apply a heating pad to the legs;
  • give strong tea to drink;
  • make sure that the child's clothes and underwear are dry. If the bed becomes damp due to sweating, the bed linen should be changed.

With a gradual lytic decrease in temperature it is enough to make sure that the baby is not woken up at this moment, since during the sleep period he restores his strength and control whether his clothes and bedding are dry.

How to do full body wraps to reduce high body temperature:

    collect at least 1 liter of cold tap water into a container or pour in an infusion of herbs (chamomile, yarrow, St. John's wort);

    a cotton sheet or linen is moistened in the prepared solution;

    wring out;

    quickly wrap around the child's body so that the arms remain free and the legs are wrapped on all sides except the feet;

    wrap the child in a sheet or thin blanket, then in a thicker blanket or blanket, but the face and feet remain free;

    socks moistened with cold water are put on the feet, and woolen socks are worn on top;

    leave the child in such a general cold compress for 45-60 minutes;

    if it is noticeable that the child is freezing, then he should be additionally covered with something warm or put a warm heating pad at his feet;

    while wrapping, give the children a warm drink. The stronger the sweating, the faster the body temperature will drop;

    prepare a bath with warm water for the expiration of the procedure;

    unroll the child;

    quickly redeem it;

    get wet with a towel;

    put to bed;

    after 15-30 minutes, dress in clean linen. You can rinse the baby in the shower instead of a bath. If the child falls asleep during the procedure, then he should not be awakened until he wakes up on his own.

Cold wrapping for babies should be done in this way:

    lay a terry towel or blanket across the crib or changing table;

    moisten a diaper folded in half in cold water;

    put a wet diaper on top of a towel or blanket;

    lay the undressed child on his back on a wet diaper;

    picking him up in a diaper;

    wrap the loose ends of the wet diaper around chest baby;

    moisten and wring out the second diaper;

    attach the second diaper to the baby's chest;

    then wrap the baby in a dry towel, blanket or blanket;

    after 30-45 minutes, untie the baby;

    wipe with a dry towel and put on dry clothes.

Cold wraps are carried out once a day. They can be alternated with rubdowns - acetic or alcohol. It should be remembered that cold wraps are used only when the body temperature rises above 38 degrees. Subfebrile temperature (37-37.5) requires the use of hot wraps.

Another method of non-drug reduction of body temperature is enemas. This procedure allows you to rid the body of toxins, which in themselves can cause an increase in body temperature. But for such an antipyretic enema, a hypertonic 5-10% saline solution should be used: 1 tablespoon of salt per glass of water. Use slightly warm water. The enema bottle (pear) should be with a soft tip. The volume of enema for children, depending on age, is as follows: at the age of up to 6 months - 30-50 ml, from 6 months to 1.5 years - 70-100 ml, from 1.5 to 5 years - 180-200 ml, 6 - 12 years - 200 -400 ml, over 12 years old - 500-700 ml. You can use an infusion of chamomile (3 tablespoons of flowers in a glass of water, boil in a water bath for 15 minutes or brew in a thermos) as the basis for a hypertonic enema.

How to give an enema to a child:

    before use, the enema pear should be boiled for 2-5 minutes;

    after cooling the pear, it is filled with the prepared solution;

    remove excess air by slightly squeezing the balloon until liquid appears from the upwardly facing tip;

    the tip is lubricated with petroleum jelly;

    an infant is placed on its back with legs raised up, and older children are placed on its side with legs pulled up to the stomach;

    the tip of the balloon is inserted into the anus very carefully so as not to injure the mucous membrane of the rectum, without effort, to a depth of 3-5 cm in young children, 6-8 cm in older children;

    gradually squeeze the pear and squeeze the liquid into the rectum;

    after emptying the balloon, without opening it, carefully remove the tip

To hold the injected fluid in the intestines, you should squeeze the buttocks of the child for several minutes with your hand. This is followed by bowel movement. Currently, in pharmacies you can buy disposable sterile plastic bottles with tips and ready-made solutions for cleansing enemas of various sizes, including for the smallest children.

In inflammatory bowel disease with the threat of ulcers, erosions or cracks in the rectum or large intestine, enemas at home without consulting a doctor are contraindicated.

Thus, at home or on vacation, in the country, non-drug methods should be used to reduce high body temperature before contacting a doctor to prevent complications associated with hyperthermia. As their own experience is accumulated, parents begin to understand which procedures the child tolerates more easily and which of them are the most effective. It is these methods that must be applied in the future with repeated episodes of a pronounced increase in body temperature.


I would never have thought that I would have to collect information on such a simple topic. But when I saw a shaking, icy and almost blue child, my brain completely failed ... So I save the articles just in case.

What is hyperthermia? Hyperthermia is, in other words, an increase in body temperature. I am sure that, one way or another, you are familiar with this phenomenon. This is not a disease, but a symptom. It manifests itself when viruses or any other bacterial infection enters the body, for example, influenza or dysentery, as a reaction to vaccination or allergic reaction. This symptom is a defense mechanism that allows the body to fight infection. Thanks to this mechanism, the body's immune response to the disease is enhanced.

However, everything is good in moderation. If the temperature rises rapidly, then the load on breathing and blood circulation increases with it. The patient's breathing becomes more frequent and heavier. The pulse also quickens. But the tissues of the body still lack oxygen, and as a result, hypoxia (oxygen starvation) develops, from which the central nervous system suffers, in the first place, and convulsions develop in children.

Now imagine the situation. Your child's behavior has not changed, but the cheeks are unnaturally red, and the eyes are shining. What attentive parent would not be interested in what it is with his child? Take your hand or put your hand to your forehead. The skin is warm and slightly moist. And the quickening of breathing and pulse is not always paid attention, unless they are pronounced. And, perhaps, at this moment, a thermometer pops up in memory. When measuring, it suddenly turns out that the baby has a temperature of 38 ° C.

This is the so-called "red" hyperthermia. This type of hyperthermia occurs most often in children. Antipyretic therapy with such hyperthermia gives a good effect, and when rubbing the skin with alcohol, “goosebumps” do not appear.

Help with "red" hyperthermia

Undress and put the child to bed
- Provide access to fresh air, but without drafts
- As much as possible to give to drink the entire period of hyperthermia
- Do not force feed
- Use physical cooling methods: blowing with a fan, a cold wet bandage on the forehead, cold or ice on the area of ​​large vessels (groin, axilla)
Rubbing a child with a sponge at a temperature of 39 ° C and above with a sponge moistened with water at a temperature of 30-32 ° C every half hour for 5 minutes. If you use water at a lower temperature, the antipyretic effect will be worse. Can be used for wiping with a mixture of vodka, water and vinegar: vodka, 9% (!), Table vinegar and water mixed in equal volumes (1:1:1).
At body temperature above 40.5-41°C, cooling baths can be done; the child is immersed in a bath with water at a temperature 1 ° C lower than the child's body temperature, and then the water is gradually cooled to 37 ° C. In this case, the heat transfer will be 3 times higher than after other cooling methods.

If within 30-45 minutes drug treatment body temperature does not decrease, it is necessary to call ambulance, for intramuscular injection lytic mixture.

But it also happens - the baby is lethargic, boring. He doesn't want to play or watch cartoons. Only the cold can complain. Of course, the parent will also pay attention to this condition and look at his baby. And his skin is pale, “marble”, his lips and nails have a blue tint, and his hands and feet are cold. If you do not help the child, then excitement, delirium and convulsions are possible. Because this is already “white” hyperthermia. It develops due to spasm of peripheral vessels. At the same time, the possibility for the body to give off excess heat to the external environment disappears and heating occurs. internal organs. Conventional antipyretic therapy in this case is not enough.

Help with "white" hyperthermia

Call an ambulance.
- Dress the child to keep him warm.
- Give an antipyretic drug at the same time as a no-shpy tablet. No-shpa is needed in order to relieve spasm of peripheral vessels.
- Give hot drinks.
- DO NOT use physical cooling methods.

With "white" fever, you need to carefully monitor your child and measure his temperature every 30 minutes. When the temperature drops to 37.5°C, you can stop further activities, as the temperature will then drop by itself. But a child with "white" hyperthermia must be examined by a doctor and hospitalized.

But if a child’s condition worsens against the background of a rise in temperature, regardless of its numbers, chills, muscle pain, feeling unwell, pallor of the skin, then it is better to start lowering the temperature immediately.

For children who are at risk, antipyretic therapy is started with a "red" fever at a temperature above 37.8 ° C, and with a "white" fever - even at 37.0 ° C.

At-risk groups

Children of the first 3 months of life;
- With a history of febrile convulsions;
- With pathology of the central nervous system;
- FROM chronic diseases heart and lungs;
- With hereditary metabolic diseases.

When the body temperature rises above 38 ° C, the child may begin febrile convulsions. As a rule, they are observed at a height of temperature and stop along with its decrease. Their duration is from several seconds to several minutes. Such seizures can occur in children aged 6 months to 5 years. In most children, seizures are hereditary.

First aid for febrile seizures

Call an ambulance
- Lay the child, but in a specific position - on the side with the head lowered below the body
- Clear the airways of mucus. To do this, wrap a napkin around your finger and clean your mouth in one circular motion.
- undress baby
- Provide fresh air
- Introduce an antipyretic drug, but in candles
- Calm yourself and calm others

There is very little left to add. The range of antipyretic drugs in pharmacies is huge. Before using any drug, read the instructions. If you do not know what to buy, then use better familiar means, for example, give panadol, paracetamol, aspirin, antipyretic suppositories inside. But, attention, aspirin and cefecon suppositories are not recommended for young children. Until the arrival of the ambulance, continue to cool the baby.

I hope nothing like this ever happens to your child. But knowledge is never redundant.

And another very similar article on this topic, but in my opinion it is more specific or something ...

Red and white hyperthermia in children. Control measures.

Fever (hyperthermia) accompanies many infectious and inflammatory processes in the body and is a protective reaction.

If the child's temperature does not exceed 38.5 g, then there is no need to reduce it. The exception is the presence of a history of seizures or a serious organic damage CNS. For such children, the temperature begins to decrease if it reaches 38 degrees. But if an ordinary child has a temperature approaching 39-40 degrees, then the fever becomes dangerous and can lead to a violation of the basic functions of the child's body, it must be fought.

Hyperthermia can be red and white. The measures of assistance in both cases are somewhat different.

RED HYPERTHERMIA.
The whole body of the patient is hot to the touch, the skin is pink, the child "burns with heat."

ACTION ALGORITHM.
- It is recommended to drink plenty of water. It must be cool. These can be juices, fruit drinks, rosehip broth, mineral water, cooled tea with lemon, etc. Fruit drinks from cranberries and lingonberries have a particularly good antipyretic effect.
- The child does not need to be covered with a blanket, on the contrary, you need to completely undress him. Part of the heat will thus leave the surface of the body through physical heat transfer and evaporation.
- The process of heat transfer and evaporation can be enhanced by wiping the child's skin with vodka, half-diluted alcohol or table vinegar (diluted with water).
- Use physical cooling methods. On the child's forehead, you can put a napkin moistened with cold water and change it more often. An ice pack wrapped in a towel can also be used for this. In the area of ​​passage of large main vessels, it is also recommended to apply bottles of cold water or ice packs. This is the area of ​​the neck and groin. Physical cooling effectively reduces the temperature.
- If the body temperature approaches 39 degrees, then give a single dose of an antipyretic drug based on paracetamol at the age dosage.
- If hyperthermia is very high and your measures are ineffective, then call the ambulance team. The child will be given a lytic mixture, which includes an antipyretic and antihistamine.

WHITE HYPERTHERMIA.
With white hyperthermia, the skin is pale, the arms, legs, forehead are cold to the touch due to vasospasm.

ACTION ALGORITHM.
- It is recommended to drink plenty of water. But it must be warm! Warm tea, rosehip decoction, herbal infusions.
- The body of the child must be rubbed, massaged until redness appears. Warm the periphery: arms, legs. Put on socks, mittens, cover the child.
- You can use classic antipyretics folk methods treatment. This is raspberry and lime veil. The infusion is brewed at the rate of a teaspoon per glass of boiling water and the child is given warm tea.
- If your measures are ineffective, call an ambulance. The composition of the lytic mixture for white hyperthermia includes not only an antipyretic and antihistamine drug, but also an antispasmodic (no-shpa, papaverine), which opens the vessels of the periphery, eliminating their spasm.

There are many various diseases at which a person's temperature rises. It can be chickenpox, flu, colds, SARS, other diseases. Especially dangerous is the rapid rise in temperature for infants and young children. Medicines that reduce fever are not suitable for everyone, they should not be used at all for babies.

At home, you can successfully bring down the sharply jumped temperature with various folk remedies and methods. Using herbs, some products, old recipes, you can remove the fever without the use of medicine. These methods are suitable for pregnant women, all young children, and other people who are allergic to medications. The main thing is not to panic, act quickly, calmly.

There are many methods to bring down the temperature without using medicines and tablets. You will need raspberries, cranberries, currants, vinegar, alcohol, linden flowers, chamomile. Decoctions and alcohol tinctures prepared from these products will help reduce fever and relieve headaches.

Lowering the temperature with alcohol or vodka

This method is suitable only for adults, children should not be rubbed with alcohol. Any alcohol or vodka is required. A small towel or cotton pad should be moistened with an alcohol solution diluted with water in a ratio of one to one. It is necessary to wipe the forehead, armpits, back of the hands. The method is suitable when you need to quickly bring down the heat in the absence of tablets.

It is impossible to rub alcohol strongly into the body, it is also forbidden to wrap it with a blanket. Unpleasant sensations will pass, you will not have to endure chills from a cold towel for long. This method is recommended even by doctors, it is the most effective of all.

Relieve Fever with Vinegar

You can reduce the heat with ordinary table vinegar. To do this, a tablespoon of vinegar 9% is diluted in a jar of water, taking it in an amount of 500 milliliters. Moisten a towel with liquid, wipe the skin. In adults, you can wipe the entire surface of the body; for children, only the legs are wetted.

You can make an vinegar compress to bring down the heat faster by placing a wet towel on your forehead. You need to keep it for a while until it dries out or warms up. This procedure will cool the skin, alleviate the condition. After that, clothes should be put on dry, it is recommended to lie down in silence.

Lowering the temperature with diaphoretic teas with herbs and berries

A good effect in reducing heat at home is given by diaphoretic teas. In boiling water, you need to add linden flowers, chamomile, a couple of tablespoons of honey, let it brew a little under the lid. Raspberries, currants, cranberries help to reduce high temperature. In a cup, put 2 tablespoons of any of these berries, pour boiling water.

You can cook cranberries, lingonberries, red currant juices, using them individually or together, it is better to mash all the berries before that. It is recommended to drink a couple of glasses of herbal or berry infusion, tea, fruit drink, immediately lie down under a warm blanket. Having sweated well, an adult or a child will soon feel some relief, a decrease in headache. It is better not to give honey to babies, one fruit drink is enough.

The berries of forest or garden honeysuckle, wild strawberries, wild raspberries reduce the heat well. You can just eat them or pour boiling water, make a fruit drink, infusion.

Reducing Fever with Citrus Fruits

Some mothers use lemons and oranges at home to reduce the temperature of the baby. They contain many vitamins, invigorate. Two oranges or tangerines eaten by a child can reduce it by a whole degree. After that, you need to lie down in a warm bed, while it is recommended to cover yourself with a blanket. You can additionally drink tea with raspberries, cranberries, lingonberries.

Preparation of an apple-onion mixture with honeyTo bring down the heat faster at home, you can prepare a healing mixture. You will need 1 large apple, 2 small onions, three tablespoons of honey. Chop the apple and onion, mix the resulting puree with honey. Children are given a mixture of 1 tablespoon, adults can eat two at once. Three hours later, the reception is repeated. All this time you need to lie down, trying to move less so that your head does not hurt.

Reducing the temperature with compresses

Helps with high temperature compress with cold water or herbal decoction. The most effective decoction of yarrow. Two tablespoons of dry grass should be poured with boiling water, let stand under the lid. After that, the broth is filtered, cooled. Then a soft terry towel is moistened in this liquid, they wipe the armpits, forehead, palms, and the entire body of an adult with it.

The same effect gives an infusion of fresh mint. You can use bags of dried chamomile from a pharmacy. Simultaneously with the compress, you need to drink more of any unsweetened warm liquid, mineral water, boiling water.

Preparation of soda solution

To reduce a fever in a child or adult, you can prepare a soda solution with warm water. Take 2 tablespoons of soda in a glass of water. Mix everything well, give to drink at a time. One glass is enough for children, adults can drink two. This method will not bring any harm, soda will then be excreted from the body with feces.

In order to quickly bring down the high temperature, it is recommended to use these techniques in combination, wiping the baby with vinegar and forcing him to drink fruit drink, healing tea with linden. An adult can be drunk with a decoction, wiped with vodka or alcohol, forced to eat honey. In all these cases, one folk ways it is still not worth being treated, if the fever does not subside for several hours, you need to call the doctors, drink medicines.