What mothers need to do when a child has a high fever convulsions

High convulsive fever is a very common medical condition in young children, especially when there is a change in weather and climate.

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Seizures often cause panic psychology for relatives, which can be dangerous for children. If the seizure is not controlled, the child's brain will suffer from hypoxia, which can lead to intellectual impairment, which can result in seizures when the seizures persist or recur.

Why do children have high fever convulsions?

The brain also has about 14 billion neurons as adults, but it must be 8 years before the neurons are completely differentiated. In terms of chemical composition, children's brains have more water and protein, less lipids than adult brains.

The cause of fever is caused by children infected with bacteria or viruses. Because neurons are not differentiated, the chemical composition has a lot of water, so when a child with high brain fever is irritable, neurons are most likely to suddenly and excessively discharge, causing full-body seizures. .

How to recognize high fever convulsions?

1. Common age ranges from 6 months to 5 years.
2. A seizure occurs at temperatures above 39oC, lost when hypothermia falls below 39oC.
3. The type of body twitching spreads all over.
4. The duration of each seizure usually does not exceed 10 minutes.
5. After seizures, children often sleep. If awakening, wake up awake and not bewitched.
6. A family history may have a high fever.

What to do when a child has a high fever?

1. Let children stay still, avoid much stimulation.
2. In a seizure, place the baby on his back, head tilted slightly to one side. Remove clothes for children to breathe easily and reduce body temperature. Use a soft object or a face towel between your teeth to prevent him from biting his tongue. Absolutely do not use hard objects to mouth children to avoid broken teeth, do not hold children tightly to avoid broken bones.
3. When the seizure stops, immediately take the child to a safe position (flip the baby sideways, head slightly backwards) so that if the child has vomiting, the vomit does not regress into the respiratory tract, causing danger to the child.
4. Use a towel dipped in warm water to wipe the young person many times, especially under the armpit and groin area to lower body temperature.
5. Cool your surroundings by limiting the number of people around you, opening windows and doors open.
6. You can use antipyretic drugs to put the anal suppository at a dose of 15-20 mg / kg body weight.
7. Take children immediately to the nearest medical facility for timely examination and treatment.

How to prevent a high fever child from convulsing?

1. Take the child to medical examination at the medical facility as soon as there are signs of fever. Do not allow the body temperature to exceed 39oC.
2. Give your child more water or more than usual.
3. Leave children in a cool place, remove clothes, absolutely not cover children.
4. Cool your baby with warm water.

Dr. TRAN VAN PHUC (Green Hospital Ponhn)