Friday, December 25, 2009

Kids cold, should immediately go to the hospital or at home and observe?

Mom Dilemma: A child with a fever or not to immediately go to the hospital?

Many mothers who have had a big pour of grievances in the forum of the experience: the child caught a cold, no spirit, do not make good eating; child coughing non-stop, sleep is not practical; children with high fever, hit fever needles, eating fever medicine, heat is still no rebate ... ... have a 3-year-old child had a fever three days, my mother did not close my eyes froze yes three days, has been upholding the child's side, she said: "If you must have a personal illness, then let me good, small child is ill, it is too pathetic. "

In this particular season, the temperature fits and starts, for most people, easily with a fever, especially the children of low resistance to more easily "caught." Mom always be careful when the kids go to the hospital was confused, they have too many worries: "Children first day of fever, is in need of immediate hospital treatment, still have to wait and look at the continuing high fever a few days after the Zaiqu doctor? If yes go to hospital, will actually not infected with influenza, but influenza it? "" child fever early in the morning to beat the fever hospital needles, eating antipyretics, but the night is still burning, you do not Zaiqu hospital? "" just a little bit cold fever went to the hospital, the child will develop a dependency on drugs? Some say that a cold carry a carry, the child will increase resistance, is it? "

Experts FAQ: high-risk groups should be the first time treatment

According to the Ministry of Health experts point out that, at present, the majority of patients with mild flu patient, a number of fever, cough and other symptoms are similar to the common cold, treatment is also just drink plenty of water, pay attention to rest, symptomatic treatment, we can soon be well. However, if high fever three days for more than 38.5 ℃; severe cough, blood sputum, or chest pain; respiratory rate faster, difficulty in breathing; headache and vomiting, have seizures symptoms; limbs, cool hair, blood pressure decrease or increase; the original basis of the disease significantly worse ... ... occur with severe flu symptoms, do not effect must be timely treatment.

In fact, not only the child her mother, many people have this kind of confusion: For mild flu without panic, but for severe influenza, the treatment can not miss the opportunity, how to grasp this lie?

Shenzhen Far East, women and children's hospital paediatrics Wang Feng said, it is generally impossible to judge the scientific severe flu symptoms and the difference between normal, resulting in flu-like symptoms should be timely treatment by a doctor to diagnose the severity, decided to take home treatment or hospitalization, the patient should not self-assertion in order to avoid delay treatment.

For "the first day of fever, whether or not to immediately for treatment?" Problem, Shenzhen Far East, women and children's hospital paediatrics Wang Feng pointed out that this should vary, if a child two years old, 70-year-old, are pregnant women, or the yes asthma who developed a fever, we should immediately go to the hospital, the so-called high-risk groups symptoms to treatment in the fir