Temperature of the body is a complex indicator of the thermal state of the human body, reflecting complex relations between heat-product (heat generation) of various organs and tissues and heat exchange between them and the external environment. The average temperature of the human body usually ranges in the range ... Between 36.5 and 37.2 degrees Celsius, due to the internal exothermic reactions and the presence of "safety valves", which make it possible to remove excess heat during pathess.
Our "thermostat" (hypothalamus) is in the brain and is constantly engaged in thermoregulation. During the day, the body temperature in humans fluctuates that is a reflection of daily rhythms: the difference between the body temperature is early in the morning and in the evening reaches 0.5-1.0 ° C.
The temperature differences between the internal organs (several tenth degrees) are revealed; The difference between the temperature of the internal organs, muscles and skin can be up to 5-10 ° C. The temperature of various areas of the body's body at ambient temperature is 20 ° C: internal organs - 37 ° C; Middleweed cottage - 36 ° C; Deep muscular part of the hip - 35 ° C; Deep layers of the calf muscle - 33 ° C; The area of \u200b\u200bthe elbow bend is 32 ° C; Brush - 28 ° C Stop Center - 27-28 ° C. It is believed that the temperature measurement in the rectum is more accurate, since the temperature here is less exposed to the environment.
The rectal temperature is always above the temperature in any part of the body. Higher than in the oral cavity by 0.5 ° C; than in the axillary region almost on the degree ° C and 0.2 ° C above the blood temperature in the right ventricle of the heart.
Critical body temperature
The maximum is considered to be 42 ° C, with it there is a disruption of metabolism in brain tissues. The human body is better adapted to the cold. For example, a decrease in body temperature up to 32 ° C causes chills, but does not represent a very serious danger.
The minimum critical temperature is 25 ° C. Already at 27 ° C, coma comes, a violation of cardiac activity and breathing one man, covered with a seventener snowy snowdrift and quenched after five hours, was in a state of inevitable death, and the rectal temperature was 19 ° C. He managed to save life. There are still cases when patients hypocheated to 16 ° C have survived.
Interesting Facts(From the "Guinness Book of Records"):
The highest temperature was registered on July 10, 1980 in the Greidi Hospital at Atlanta, Piece. Georgia, USA. The clinic entered the 52-year-old Willie Jones, who received a thermal blow. Its temperature turned out to be 46.5 ° C. From the hospital, the patient was discharged only after 24 days.
The lowest documented temperature of the human body was registered on February 23, 1994 in Canada, in 2-year-old Carli Kozolofsky. After the door of her house accidentally turned out to be locked and the girl remained in the cold at 22 ° C, its rectal temperature was 14.2 ° C.
For a person, elevated temperature is the most dangerous - hyperthermia.
Hyperthermia is an abnormal increase in body temperature above 37 ° C as a result of the disease. This is a very common symptom that can be observed in malfunctions in any part or body system. Increased temperatures not falling for a long time testifies to the dangerous state of the person. The following types of hyperthermia are distinguished: subfebrile - from 37 to 38 ° C, moderate - from 38 to 39 ° C, high - from 39 to 41 ° C and excessive, or hyperpyrical - over 41 ° C.
Temperature of the body above 42.2 ° C leads to loss of consciousness. If it does not fall, then there is damage to the brain.
Possible causes of hyperthermia
When the temperature is raised above the norm, be sure to consult a doctor to clarify the possible cause of hyperthermia. Increase temperatures above 41 ° C - reason for immediate hospitalization.
The reasons:
1. Disorder of the immune complex.
2. Infectious and inflammatory diseases.
3. Tumors.
4 . Disorder thermostat. A sudden and sharp rise in temperature is usually observed with such hazardous diseases, as a stroke, thyrotoxic crisis, malignant hyperthermia, as well as during the damage to the central nervous system. Low and average hyperthermia is accompanied by an increased sweating.
5. Medications. Hyperthermia and rash usually occur due to increased sensitivity to antifungal drugs, sulfonilamides, antibiotics of the penicillin group, etc. Hyperthermia can be observed during chemotherapy. It can be caused by drugs provoking sweating. Hyperthermia can also occur with toxic doses of some drugs.
6. Procedures. Temporary hyperthermia may occur after surgical operations.
7. Blood transfusion Also usually causes a sudden increase in temperature and chills.
8. Diagnostics A sudden or gradually manifested hyperthermia sometimes accompanies radiological studies that use a contrast medium.
And to trust, the easiest way, the thermometer!
Today, all the variety of thermometers can be divided according to the principle of operation into 2 groups:
Mercury thermometer
He is familiar to everyone. It has a traditional scale, easy enough, gives accurate readings. However, the measurement of the temperature, for example, the child has a number of shortcomings. The baby must be undressed, and for this, to disturb, if he sleeps, retain on the site of a moving and capricious baby for 10 minutes is difficult. And it is extremely easy to split such a thermometer, and there is mercury in it !! Mercury - the chemical element II of the group of an additional subgroup of a periodic system of Mendeleev elements A simple substance at room temperature is a heavy silver-white noticeably volatile liquid, the pairs of which are extremely poisonous.
With prolonged inhalation of evaporation of even the scratch amount of this liquid, it is possible to obtain chronic poisoning. It proceeds for a long time without clear symptoms of the disease: general malaise, irritability, nausea, weight loss. As a result, mercury poisoning leads to neurosis and kidney damage. So it is necessary to clean this silver substance carefully and quickly.
Interesting Facts:
Mercury is used for the manufacture of measuring instruments, vacuum pumps, light sources and in other areas of science and technology. The European Parliament decided to prohibit the sale of thermometers, blood pressure meters and barometers containing mercury. This has become part of a strategy aimed at a serious reduction in mercury use and, accordingly, contamination by this toxic environmental substance. Now the EU citizens can measure the temperature at home (air or body - no matter) only with the help of new devices that do not contain mercury, for example, electronic thermometers or suitable for some applications, alcohol. Rather, this ban will work at full strength by the end of 2009: over the coming year, the relevant laws should take the parliaments of the EU countries, and the manufacturers of measuring instruments on restructuring are given. Experts argue that new rules will reduce mercury emissions in nature by 33 tons per year.
Digital thermometers.
This group also includes infrared ear and frontal thermometers.
Benefits:
- measurement time: 1-3 minutes for electronic, and 1 second for infrared;
- absolutely safe - does not contain mercury;
- by mass and dimensions similar to mercury;
- the readings of the thermal sensor or infrared sensor are transmitted to the LCD with an accuracy of the tenth of the degree;
- sound alarm;
- memory function;
- automatic power off;
- the service life of the usual battery two to three years;
- the plastic case is resistant to shocks and even to water procedures;
Digital thermometer measurement methods:
- standard, axillary (in the armpit);
- oral (in the oral cavity);
- rectal (in the anal opening);
- the principle of measuring the magnitude of the reflected energy of infrared radiation from the eardrum of the ear and nearby tissues (in the auditory canal).
At the body temperature of +42 ° C, the human brain undergoes irreversible changes. At a temperature of +45 ° C, body tissue cells are destroyed.
Sharp fluctuations in the external environment in the direction of increasing or decreasing the temperature cause health disorder, and often the death of a person. Since the life processes in the body can flow in the rather narrow limits of the temperature of the inner medium, then with fluctuations in the temperature of the external environment, the physiological mechanisms of thermoregulation level the body temperature, adapting the body to these fluctuations. If the temperature of the skin is reduced to + 25 ° C or rises to + 45 ° C, then the protective reaction of the body is broken and painful changes come up to death.
High temperature action
The effect of high temperature on the human body can be shared and local.
The heat blow comes with a general action of high temperature, which causes the heating of the body. The heat blow is observed in conditions that contribute to the overheating of the body: at high temperature, high humidity, enhanced muscle work. These conditions make it difficult to heat production, increase the heat generation of heat in the body. Such phenomena are observed when working in hot shops, in miners of deep mines, among soldiers and tourists moving in the hot season. Especially susceptible to thermal blows, infants, as well as people suffering from heart and some other diseases.
Death is usually coming from the primary stop of breathing at a body temperature + 42.5 ° C - + 43.5 ° C. The immediate cause of death in acute overheating is a deep violation of the functions of the central nervous system as a result of blood circulation disorders; The same reason has a depleting effect on the heart muscle. In the development of thermal impact, several periods can be distinguished: the first - short - indifference; The second is the excitation, characterized by a progressive increase in body temperature, motor excitation, irritability, headache, dizziness, heartbeat, vomiting; The third is precomply - exhaustion, slowing down breathing, lowering blood pressure, adamina, followed by death.
Solar strike is a kind of thermal impact. The difference lies in the fact that with thermal impact there is a general overheating of the body, and with solar - overheating of the head with the heat rays of the Sun, which there arises a preferential defeat of the central nervous system. The victim has a headache, a decline of strength, lethargy, vomiting, vision disorder, the increase in the pulse, breathing. The temperature rises to + 40 ° C - + 42 ° C, the sweating stops, the loss of consciousness, the slowing down of the pulse and respiration occurs, may be hemorrhages to the brain and other internal organs, then death comes quite often.
When conducting a forensic medical examination of the corpses of those who died from the overheating of the body, any specific phenomena are detected during the opening, nor with microscopic examination of the organs. Only the pathological picture is stated, characteristic of fast death: swelling and full-blooded brain and its shells, overflow of veins blood, minor hemorrhages in brain tissue and under heart sheath, pleura lungs, liquid dark blood and full-blooded internal organs. Detailed familiarization with the protocol of the inspection of the detection of the corpse, the materials of the investigation and the clinical picture preceding death is important for the preparation of expert opinion.
Painful changes in tissues, organs arising from local exposure to high temperatures are called thermal burns. The burns are caused by a short-term effect of flames, hot liquids, resins, gases, pairs, heated objects, molten metal, napalm, etc. From the action of acids and alkalis, chemical burns arise, according to changes in tissues sometimes resembling thermal.
You decide to get from one settlement to another. It is only a few tens of kilometers away, and soon you will have a meeting with friends. But suddenly - a sharp turn, the car enters, and now it is already lying on his side in a snowdrift.
Imagine yourself by the frosty winter evening in the car's cabin in the midst of the endless snow-covered spaces somewhere in Siberia. You decide to get from one settlement to another. It is only a few tens of kilometers away, and soon you will have a meeting with friends. But suddenly - a sharp turn, the car enters, and now it is already lying on his side in a snowdrift. You got wooley and unharmed, but on Street -35, and around anyone. Even if you know the way, you have to get to this cold for a long time. At first, you are slightly hot, but after 15-20 minutes the temperature returns to normal 36.6, and then continues to fall about the degree at 30-40 minutes. That's what will happen to your body further.
36.6 - 35 degrees
When the body temperature reaches 36 degrees, the muscles around your neck and your shoulders will begin to shrink - this is called a predominant muscle tone. Your receptors send a signal to the hypothalamus, which, in turn, gives the team to narrow the entire capillary network on the surface of your body. Legs and arms so begins to break from the cold. After 45 minutes, the temperature drops to 35 - you enter the light hypothermation zone. You are already shaking quite a lot - the natural reaction of the muscles, which begin to shrink more and more often to give the body more heat.
35 - 32 degrees
An hour has passed. You have not yet slept a panic fear, but the cold already makes the enzymes in your brain work less efficiently. With each degree, which is lowered by the body temperature after 35, the level of metabolism in the body drops by 3-5%. After the mark at 34 degrees, you begin to gradually lose memory and reason. Looking at the clock, after half a minute you can not remember the numbers. Almost you will be able to go through even any significant distance. You fall into a snowdrift and throw your head. Heat from your body continues to leave. Below 33 degrees there comes the state of apathy, in 32 - stupor. 
32 - 30.5 degrees
All, you are in the zone of extreme supercooling. At 31 degrees, your body throws attempts to warm himself trembling. Blood is thickened like oil in a frozen engine, oxygen consumption - the indicator of your metabolism - falls more than a quarter. The kidneys, meanwhile, work without stopping to cope with the abrasiveness of the fluid, which the narrowed vessels are squeezed in your limbs. Somewhere between 31 and 30 degrees you lose the ability to find out the face of a loved one, who will suddenly come to your aid.
30.5 - 29.5 degrees
The temperature dropped to 30. On the thermometers, which are in the apartments of most of us, there is even no such division on the scale. In this state, electrical impulses that send chilled nerve endings on your heart become arrhythmic. The heart itself shakes about two-thirds from the usual blood volume. Lack of oxygen and slowed down metabolism in the meantime, the visual and sound hallucinations can cause visual and sound hallucinations. At about 29.5 degrees, death comes from supercooling. Moreover, in a painful attack, people often try to remove clothing from themselves. Because of this phenomenon, entitled "Paradoxian undressing", those who freeze in cities are often confused with victims of sexual violence. There is no accurate explanation for this phenomenon, but the most logical explanation is that, right before the loss of consciousness, the narrowed vessels at the body surface suddenly expand and create a sharp flow of heat to the skin, and the person begins to burn.
Rescue overcooked
In fact, every year, many sacrifices of hypothermia die from "shock from overheating" during the rescue process, when the narrowed capillaries expand all at once at a time, causing a sharp pressure jump. Even the slightest movement can cause the strongest spasm of ventricular fibrillation in the heart muscle of a strongly supercooled person. In 1980, 16 Danish fishermen was saved after the boat crash and a half hours of stay in the icy water of the North Sea. Having descended from the rescue vessel, they went to the institution to drink hot drinks, and immediately died. All 16 people.
With extremely low temperatures, the human body is preserved, slow down internal processes. Many people found over-shaded seem to see only at first glance. The body can exist in such a state of hours, and to output it from it very gently and gradually.
The cause of death can be both natural and random factors - accidents, oncology, complications after transferring infectious diseases. Most often, the change in body temperature is taken to be only a symptom of some disease, the result of the struggle of the body with external adverse factors, and not the main cause of death. Did you die from temperature?
Temperature norms
The body temperature in a healthy person ranges from 36 to 37.1 ° C and is a relatively constant value. As a result of numerous studies, it was established that due to circadian (daily) rhythms, the temperature difference in the morning is lower than in the evening. The body temperature can also be temporarily lower than or higher than the established norms both due to colds and due to fear or nightmares, with intensive mental work during the session, after sex or after a long street walk. In cases where the temperature difference reaches a critical value, a direct threat to health and life appears, so you need to know the temperature values \u200b\u200bat which.
You can control the temperature using various devices - mercury hydraulic thermometers using electronic and infrared thermometers. For example, to measure the body temperature in the oral cavity of the breast child, you can purchase an electronic thermometer in the form of a nipple. You can measure as follows:
| Place measure | Regulatory value, in ° C | When measured |
| In the armpit (axillary) | 36,4-36,7 | Traditional measurement method. It is carried out most quickly and painlessly with mercury and electronic thermometers. Thanks to the measurements in the axillary depression, the incubation period of the disease (ARVI, flu, rotavirus infection, etc. can be determined. |
| In the groin area (vaginally or anal) | 37,2 — 37,7 | Most often, it is necessary to measure pregnant women, children and all those who have serious chronic diseases, benign and malignant tumors. |
| in the oral cavity (orally) | 36,8-37,3 | The temperature value is most accurately determined on the mucous membrane in the oral cavity. It is impossible to measure after taking hot or cold food and beverages. |
It is important not only to be able to properly measure the temperature difference, but also know at what body temperature is a person dies. Temperature norms are constant, so the changes in a large or smaller side must be alarmed. It is necessary to constantly monitor the state of children of preschool age, as they have the development of diseases take place very rapidly. For example, with a rotavirus infection in a child, a temperature value in a couple of hours can achieve a critical value of 39 ° C.
Temperature of the death of man
Each of us is unique, and each has its own response to the events. Someone loves to participate in expeditions to the North Pole, and someone will not leave the house at -10 ° C. At what temperature can you die? It is impossible to definitely answer this question. The pathology leading to death is the temperature value below 35.5 ° C (hypothermia) or above 37.5 ° C (hyperthermia).
Overheating organism
Overheating of the body is a state characterized by a violation of heat regulation, dehydration and critical increase in body temperature. The main reasons for overheating the body:
- the heat strike is etching the entire body, as a result of which problems arise in the work of all life systems;
- sunny blow - a painful condition characterized by the excess of temperature standards and the expansion of blood vessels as a result of a long-lasting person under the sun. Most often accompanied by dizziness, acute headache and temporary loss of consciousness.
- harmful working conditions (chemical production, oil industry, performing gas welding works, etc.);
- development of infectious disease (cold, infection of open wounds, etc.).
Interesting! The maximum body temperature of a person in consciousness was recorded in 1980 in the United States and amounted to 46.7 ° C. A few days later, the man recovered.
At what temperature a person dies from the heat? The temperature value is considered to be higher than 40 ° C, as irreversible processes begin - the metabolic disorder, an increase in blood viscosity, the dysfunction of the cardiovascular system, the denaturation of the protein, the problems with breathing, the disorder of the Central CNS and the brain swelling (person dies, is clinical, and then and biological death). The temperature before death in the case of overheating can be more than 42 ° C. A person who dies with a high temperature may experience strongest headaches, panic attacks and see hallucinations.
Supercooling
From the cold you can die in cases where the body temperature falls below 35.5 ° C, i.e. The body's hypothermia begins. In this case, there is a violation of metabolism and the problem in the work of all organism systems. Causes of hypothermia:
- unfavorable and extreme weather conditions (strong wind and high humidity, low air temperature in winter, accommodation in the Polar region);
- an overdose by alcohol or narcotic substances;
- hunger and dehydration of the body;
- sharp heat loss (getting into cold water);
- injuries and fractures;
- loss of consciousness on the street in the winter (a person dies from frostbite).
At what temperature a person dies from the cold? The body cooling process occurs gradually. At the air temperature of -30 ° C and below, the body is on average cools at 1 degree every hour. 4 stages are distinguished:
- Temperature values \u200b\u200brange from 35 ° C to 36 ° C. The body is trying to independently warm up - the convulsions of the whole body begins, the limbs involuntarily shudder. A person has a clear consciousness, not dying.
- The second stage is characterized by the slowdown in the metabolic processes occurring in the body, human has problems with attention, memory and reason.
- At 32 ° C, the critical situation comes, the third degree of frostbite - the person slowly dies, flows into the apathetic state, hesitated and speaks and talks. With timely medical care, a person who seemed to die, will be able to return to a normal lifestyle.
- At what temperature of the body comes the death of a person? The last fourth stage of frostbite is characterized by a body temperature below 30 ° C. At the same time, the load on the internal organs of a person increases, blood vessels are narrowed, the body loses the ability to thermoregulation, hallucinations appear, the person loses consciousness and slowly dies. After a while, clinical death comes from low temperatures.
There is a notion of "internal" hypothermia - a parables, manifested in people who die from frostbite and have extensive muscle paralysis, muscle degeneration, extreme degree of body depletion.
Interesting! The lowest temperature of 14.2 ° C, brought to the Guinness Book of Records, was marked at a two-year-old girl who spent several hours on the street in the winter season.
A person dies from the cold gradually, the body for a long time struggles with the ailment. Only after a person loses consciousness, the oxidation of the body and clinical death occurs.
Infectious diseases
Increased body temperature is most often associated with the development of an infectious disease. If human immunity is weakened (by virtue of age, the presence of other diseases, due to the unfavorable living conditions and work), then with the heavy form of influenza, a fatal outcome is also possible.
A person who for a long time notices that its body temperature is raised (about 38 ° C), but there are no other signs of a cold, should make fluorography to eliminate or confirm tuberculosis. Constant excess of temperature standards may be the consequence of the development of a malignant tumor.
Tanatological studies
Tanatology - learning the body after death. Distinguish clinical and biological death. Clinical death is reversible, if a person who dies, in a timely manner, for four minutes to provide medical care. The exceptions are cases where a person who dies does not have external signs of vital activity as a result of frostbite and supercooling - the time of clinical death from low temperatures can reach 6 minutes.
Biological death or otherwise true death is an irreversible cessation of all organism systems. Despite the fact that it was the cause of death, the body temperature after death gradually decreases, is aligned with the ambient temperature. The body cooling rate after death depends on various factors:
- location of the corpse;
- season;
- availability of clothes, linen and other items capable of keeping heat;
- body temperature at death;
- the emotional state of a person who dies (as a rule, during the agony, convulsions are beginning, often the body temperature is raised before death).
Death from high temperature as a result of a solar or thermal impact does not leave specific traces on the human body. The human body, who died as a result of a fire or explosion, can be distinguished from others for a number of signs:
- thermal stuffing muscles;
- a kind of posture - a person dies and involuntarily takes the embryo pose, tries to close his face with his hands, adjust his knees to the stomach;
- open skin covers have a uniform cootter layer, cracks and bubbles from burns.
Death in supercooling also has its own signs:
- frupbed areas become pale gray;
- the face is covered in the other;
- clothes acts about the body;
- after death, pink color appear.
With the help of tanatological studies, it is possible to determine the exact time of death, the nature of the diseases, as well as what way of life was led by a person and what were his death actions.
Thanks to modern technical discoveries, sewing overalls and creating various drugs to improve the work of the body, a person learned to survive in a wide variety of natural conditions - does not die in the equator at a constant heat and high humidity, and travels with pleasure along the northern areas at temperatures below -50 ° C . Is it possible to die from temperature? Yes, it is possible if you neglect the simple safety rules of life and not follow the condition of your health.
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Text: Oksana Zhuby
The doctor is rarely called to the child, which is really feared. As a rule, it is 37.3-38 ° C. But the "temperatures" is afraid anyway. Do I need? After all, this is just a sign that the child is struggling with infection. Most infections are not dangerous and run independently. The temperature rise simply shows that the body began to produce substances that are struggling with pathogens. And absolutely does not mean that it is necessary to immediately rush to the doctor or cause an ambulance. Temperature libeza is performed by a pediatrician Oksana Zhombius, Ph.D.
How to measure
First, let's make sure that you correctly measure the temperature. You can use mercury "maximum" (i.e., after measuring the column remains at the maximum value) or a digital thermometer. You can measure the temperature in the axillary fold, in the mouth, in the rectum. The most convenient, of course, the armpit. In the mouth, the temperature can be measured if you are sure that the child does not eat it in the process, and the rectal indicators are actually necessary only when it comes to babies under 3 months and accurate results are required. To measure the rectal temperature, insert the tip of the thermometer into the anal hole of about 13 mm.
When measuring the temperature of the armpit, make sure that it concerns the skin on all sides, not clothes, and that the skin is dry. Wipe it if necessary. Keep a glass or plastic thermometer at least 3 minutes, and digital - to the signal, according to the instructions.
What are the numbers mean
The normal temperature of the body is 36.1-37.2 ° C (there is an opinion as 37.5, although I would still eliminate painful causes at the same time).Low fever 37.2-38.3 ° C.
Moderate fever 38.3-39.5 ° C.
High fever 39.5 ° C and higher.
Low fever is not hazardous, light infection will pass.
Moderate fever for 2-3 days - reason to consult a doctor.
High fever always causes an alarm, although it does not necessarily correspond to the severity of the disease.
Since fever is just the manifestations of the child in a child, then it is necessary to treat a child, and not an increased temperature. It is believed that up to 38.5 ° C (sometimes indicated 38 ° C, which is not applicable) no need to knock down the temperature. Of course, if the child is pretty calmly tolerates it (easy weakness and capriciousness does not count, it is even good, weakness will force the child to stay in bed, saving the strength that will contribute to recovery). Of course, the parents really do not like to see their child with unhappy and sick, and even a high column on the thermometer hesitates the situation ... but there are already studies proving that if the temperature is not knocked down, then the children are in short and less. So it is better to sit near him, read him a book, give a delicious compote ... In general, take the function of the comfort of the child on yourself, do not bring it to the antipyretic pills.
If you see that the child is extremely sluggish or, on the contrary, is initiated, it is clearly bad - so damn with them, with norms, it is better to reduce the temperature. However, one should not shoot it down to the "normal" 36.6 ° C (by the way, the rapid decrease in temperature may worsen the condition of the child). It is enough if the temperature decreases to the sacred 38-38.5 ° C.
How to shoot down
It is now taken to prescribe drugs containing ibuprofen and paracetamol. They can be given one by one (ibuprofen can be given 3-4 times a day, paracetamol - up to 4 times a day, here is the difference, and?), If necessary, you can alternate, you can combine. It is important not to exceed the daily dose - it differs depending on the age and size of the child.
I like the combination of antipyretic with "physical cooling methods." While the drugs begin to act, you can wipe the child with warm (once again: warm, the temperature of his body!) Water. Steaming, it will contribute to heat sliced \u200b\u200bfrom the skin - elementary physics: energy is spent on evaporation, heat is energy. You can put compress with water room temperature on the forehead, in the armpit and inguinal folds, met the recommendation of the compress on the liver area, but somehow weakly reasonable. Sometimes it helps a small enema with water temperature not higher than room (this is important, warm water is quickly seen in the intestine, and this is nothing). Even recommended the fevering time. I wonder, they tried to dissolve a child who was desperately illuminated? The method is logical, I do not argue, but what a parent heart will stand it?
Important: Children under three months shot down the temperature without a doctor is urgently not recommended.
Causes are very scary?
Causes that appear in infants and babies at high temperatures are called febrile. At the same time, the child often loses consciousness, he trembles or shake one or more limbs. It can continue from 2 seconds to 15 minutes, most often - about 2 minutes. Febral convulsions are observed quite often - about each 25 child, they even once were. The mechanism of their development is unknown. Usually they develop at a temperature of about 39 ° C, but some are and at a lower one - this is somehow some and need to start shooting down the temperature earlier. Although evidence that the use of antipyretic drugs reduces the risk of developing febrile convulsions, no, but if the temperature is above 38.6 ° C, it is better to reduce it so that the child felt more comfortable and the fever did not intensive.
Episodes of febrile convulsions do not mean that the child has or will be epilepsy or that he needs anticonvulsant drugs. Although sometimes children, especially prone to febrile cramps, are prescribed anticonvulsant drugs that need to be taken for fever, as they can reduce the risk of paroxism.
Febral convulsions do not cause any brain damage. Nevertheless, it is important to inform the doctor about every episode of febrile convulsions to examine the child and make sure that he has no timeless diseases like meningitis. Children who have suffered febrile convulsions, as a rule, do not need hospitalization, but with prolonged seizures or signs of infection better than a child in the hospital and examine.
Risk factors for the development of febrile seizures:
- The child often sick with a high fever.
- The family had cases of febrile cramps.
- The first case of febrile convulsion occurred under the age of 15 months.
Most cases of febrile cramps take place in front of the parents until the doctor gets to the child, the convulsions are already passing. In such situation:
- Keep calm. It is most important.
- Put the child to the floor to prevent falling during cramps.
- Do not hold back and do not try to fix the child who has febrile cramps, as it can lead to injuries.
- If possible, remove any items, food, and put it on the side so that it does not favor during convulsion.
- Never put anything in the mouth of the child during convulsion. Objects in the mouth can break and lead to suffocation.
- As soon as the danger passes, take the child to the hospital or to the therapist for further examination and establish the causes of fever.
After 5 years, almost all children will develop febrile cramps.
When it is not fever
Little children are very easily overheated. Summary chest - the temperature rose. I tried to get out of the playpen - ready, 37.6 ° C. Mom too warmly dressed - get the "temperature". Stepped - similarly. Moreover, in the evening the body temperature itself rises to 37.2-37.3 ° C. Of course, the antipyretic here is not needed and, naturally, it is not a painful state. It is enough to undress a child, wait until it rests ... yeah. Try to explain this to a loving anxious mother, read on the Internet and requiring a doctor that all the indicators of her beloved baby be "normal" as she understands them. So here. Moms, dear and loving! Do not measure the temperature of the child every 2 hours! And 2 times a day - no need! And once a day - no need! If the child is healthy, cheerful, active, inquisitive - remove the thermometer from it! At the same time less risk to break it.
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