How can I Prevent Hyperthermia?

Excessive body temperature means that the body temperature rises beyond the normal range due to the adjustment point of the body temperature adjustment center being moved up for various reasons. Hyperthermia: Also known as fever, refers to any cause of excessive heat production, reduced heat dissipation, impaired body temperature regulation, and the rise of body temperature caused by a pyrogen acting on the body's temperature regulation center to move the adjustment point upwards, and exceeds the normal range, said Body temperature rises. In general, when the temperature of the armpit exceeds 37 ° C or the temperature of the oral cavity exceeds 37.5 ° C, the fluctuation of body temperature over 1 day and night can be called excessive body temperature.

Normal people under the control of the body temperature regulation center, the body's heat production and heat dissipation process often maintains a dynamic balance. When the body is under the action of a pyrogen or the body temperature center dysfunction, the heat production process is increased, and the heat dissipation cannot be accompanied by The increase or decrease in heat dissipation and the rise in body temperature beyond the normal range are called fever. There are many causes of fever, and clinical can be roughly divided into two categories of infectious fever and non-infectious fever. The former includes fever caused by various pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, rickettsia, fungi, Borrelia, and parasites.

The latter can have several reasons:

Absorption of sterile necrotic tissue, including physical, chemical factors or mechanical damage, such as large area burns, internal bleeding and tissue damage after trauma or major surgery; tissue necrosis or cell destruction, such as malignant tumors, leukemias, acute hemolytic reactions, etc. .

Allergic reactions such as rheumatic fever, serum disease, drug fever, connective tissue disease and some malignant tumors.

Endocrine and metabolic diseases, such as increased heat production during hyperthyroidism, reduced heat dissipation in patients with severe dehydration, and increased body temperature.

Heart failure or certain skin diseases. In chronic heart failure, body temperature rises due to decreased cardiac output, decreased urine output, decreased skin heat dissipation, and thermal insulation of edema tissue. Certain skin diseases, such as generalized dermatitis and ichthyosis, also reduce the heat dissipation of the skin and cause fever.

Central dysfunction of body temperature regulation is common in physical factors such as heat stroke; chemical factors such as severe sleeping pills poisoning; mechanical factors such as concussion, skull fracture, cerebral hemorrhage, and elevated intracranial pressure.

Autonomic dysfunction. The division of fever can be divided into low fever (37.3 to 38 ° C) according to the level of fever; medium fever (38.1 to 39 ° C); high fever (39.1 to 41 ° C); super high fever (above 41 ° C) . The types of fever include retentive heat, relaxation heat, intermittent heat, wave heat, regression heat and irregular heat. Children with fever should be treated as an emergency, the cause should be identified as soon as possible, and targeted treatment should be given as early as possible. Young children should still pay attention to preventing high fever convulsions. ^[1]

There are many causes of hyperthermia. The most common are infections (including various bacterial infections, viral infections,

Avoid eating more eggs: Severe fever and delay the fever;

Two bogeys and multiple products;

Three avoid drinking cold drinks;

Four avoid eating honey: fever should be based on clearing heat, not tonic.

Five taboos eat spicy

Six taboos forcing to eat;

Do not wear too much clothes for children with fever, and do not cover the quilt too thickly, so as not to affect the body heat emission. Children with fever should sweat a lot during the fever. At this time, use a hot towel to wipe the sweat from the chest, back, underarms and forehead, and change underwear in time; pay attention to supplement nutrients and moisture.

During fever, the consumption of nutrients and water increases, and the digestive function declines. Therefore, you should appropriately reduce your diet and eat some nutritious and digestible liquid or semi-liquid foods, such as soybean milk, rice porridge, noodle soup, ravioli, etc. If juice, sugar water, boiled water or refreshing drinks, etc .; drinking more water not only helps to cool down, but also helps the excretion of bacterial toxins.

Saliva secretion is reduced during high fever, oral mucosa is dry, suitable for bacterial growth and reproduction, and can cause glossitis, stomatitis, etc. Therefore, pay attention to oral hygiene; rinse your mouth with warm water before meals to help increase appetite. Brush your teeth. Frequent water feeding can also achieve the purpose of cleaning the mouth.

Any disease has a certain development and recovery process. Even if the diagnosis is clear and the medication is taken in time, it may last 2 to 3 days before the fever can be reduced. Some viral infections or more severe bacterial infections may last 5 to 7 days. If the diagnosis is clear and the condition is better except fever, you should follow the doctor's instructions to give your child medicine or injections on time and strengthen the care. Do not run several times a day or several hospitals because you have not had a fever for a while. Not only will the child not get rest, it will cause treatment disorders and affect the recovery of the disease, but it may also cause the child to be infected with other diseases.

Antipyretics and physical cooling methods cannot be applied at the same time, because the cooling mechanisms of the two methods are very different. After the use of antipyretics, patients showed systemic vasodilatation, pores opened, and sweating increased, achieving the goal of cooling. The physical cooling method is generally used to shrink the local blood vessels due to the effect of cold, and the heat is dissipated through conduction to achieve the purpose of cooling. If you use physical cooling immediately after using antipyretics, the dilated blood vessels will immediately contract, sweat pores will be closed, and sweating will stop. Antipyretics are not only affected, but sick children will feel very uncomfortable. Generally, the method of physical cooling should be adopted first. If the body temperature does not drop, the drug should be used to reduce fever after 1 to 2 hours.