If you want to try old-fashioned home remedies, provide cool drinks, place a fan near your child's bed to keep the air circulating, and use the old stand-by, a lukewarm not cool sponge bath. Above all, remember that most healing of all home remedies -- plenty of hugs and kisses. There are times when a fever, sometimes in combination with other symptoms, should send you hightailing it to a doctor or emergency room.
These include:. All content here, including advice from doctors and other health professionals, should be considered as opinion only. Always seek the direct advice of your own doctor in connection with any questions or issues you may have regarding your own health or the health of others. Benefits of Having a Fever. By Avery Hurt October 03, Save Pin FB More. Understanding Fevers Back in , a prominent pediatrician named Barton Schmitt coined the term "fever phobia" to describe the understandable desire of many parents to bring down fevers in their children as quickly as possible.
Fevers need to be treated only if they are causing discomfort and usually a fever has to be above or degrees before making a child uncomfortable. Treating a fever usually doesn't bring the body temperature back to normal -- just down 2 or 3 degrees.
Only 4 percent of children have fever seizures -- marked by a momentary loss of consciousness, eyes rolling back, shaking, twitching, or stiffening -- and when seizures do occur they cause no permanent harm.
How your child looks is more important than the exact reading on the thermometer. A rectal temperature of A fever of more than five days duration. Your provider will perform a physical exam.
This may include a detailed examination of the skin, eyes, ears, nose, throat, neck, chest, and abdomen to look for the cause of the fever. Leggett JE. Approach to fever or suspected infection in the normal host. Goldman-Cecil Medicine. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; chap Nield LS, Kamat D. In: Kliegman RM, St. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. Updated by: Neil K. Editorial team. Fever is the temporary increase in the body's temperature in response to a disease or illness.
A child has a fever when the temperature is at or above one of these levels: Other factors that may affect body temperature are: A woman's menstrual cycle. In the second part of this cycle, her temperature may go up by 1 degree or more.
Physical activity, strong emotion, eating, heavy clothing, medicines, high room temperature, and high humidity can all increase body temperature. Almost any infection can cause a fever, including: Bone infections osteomyelitis , appendicitis , skin infections or cellulitis , and meningitis Respiratory infections such as colds or flu -like illnesses, sore throats, ear infections , sinus infections , mononucleosis , bronchitis , pneumonia , and tuberculosis Urinary tract infections Viral gastroenteritis and bacterial gastroenteritis Children may have a low-grade fever for 1 or 2 days after some immunizations.
Autoimmune or inflammatory disorders may also cause fevers. Some examples are: Arthritis or connective tissue illnesses such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus Ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease Vasculitis or periarteritis nodosa The first symptom of a cancer may be a fever. Many symptoms of an allergy, cold, and flu are similar, including a runny nose and sneezing.
However, these conditions affect the body differently…. Sometimes, people find they are always nauseous, run-down, or catching colds. They can feel sick with or without vomiting, while nausea may come and…. What are the differences between a cold and the flu? Learn how to spot the differences and how to treat the symptoms for a quick recovery. As winter begins to set in, it's time to get those hats and gloves ready. But not everyone feels the cold the same way, scientists say. Why fever can be your friend in times of illness.
By Silke Schmidt. March 20, at am. But exactly how that fever helps the body fight infections has long been a mystery. A new study in mice shows that it helps immune cells more quickly reach and attack harmful germs.
His team studied how immune cells travel from a blood vessel to the site of an infection. A fever gives the cells a superpower that speeds up that trip, his team found. Millions of T cells flow through the blood on the lookout for harmful bacteria and viruses. Most of the time, they flow along in a quiet, monitoring mode.
But as soon as they detect potential danger, they kick into high gear. Now they head for the nearest lymph node. Hundreds of these small, bean-shaped glands are scattered throughout our bodies. Their job is to trap disease-causing microbes near the site of an infection.
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