Children's care | High -temperature weather, how to prevent children from heat stroke?

Since entering the Sanfu Tian, ​​high -temperature weather appears all over the country, and everyone feels that they have been heated. In such a high -temperature and humidity environment, children may have heat stroke. So how can we prevent heat stroke? What if you have heat stroke?

How to prevent heat stroke?

Activate children's heat stroke from four aspects: our daily clothing, food, housing, and travel.

Clothing: Wear cotton and comfortable clothes at home. If you go out, try to wear light, breathable, light -colored clothing, and wear a hat with sunscreen wide brim.

Food: In high temperature weather, no matter whether there is exercise or sweating, you should remind your children to drink water and not wait until thirst. When outdoors, it is recommended to drink a small amount of water and do not drink too high sugar drinks. If you perform exercise, a large amount of salt in the sweat will be lost. You can drink some sports drinks or light salt water appropriately.

Living: High temperature weather, minimize going out. The indoor air conditioner temperature is controlled at about 26 ° -28 °. It should not be too low or too high. After opening the air conditioner for 3-4 hours, the windows should be turned on to keep the indoor air circulation. If the air conditioner in the home cannot be used, you can use some public places to avoid the summer.

During: When going out, you must help your child wipe the sunscreen; at the same time, you should avoid the high temperature period of noon and choose the activity of the back of the shade. The exercise intensity will gradually become stronger from weak, so that the body can adapt to the external environment.

Performance of heat stroke

Symptoms: There are a lot of sweating. I feel dizziness, dazzling, weak limbs, nausea, thirst, and inattention.

It can be returned to normal for a period of time and cooling away from the high temperature environment and transferring to a cool place.

Symptoms of mild symptoms: The symptoms of threatened heat stroke are worse. At this time, the body temperature may be as high as 38 ° C, and the skin is hot, red or pale, nausea and vomiting, irritability, skin cold, and blood pressure.

Using the same treatment as a threatened heat stroke, it can be restored to normal within a few hours.

If the symptoms of heat stroke can still be improved if the symptoms of heat stroke are still not improved after being transferred to a cool place, ventilation and cooling, and timely replenishment of the electrolytes in time, it may be that the stroke is severe. At this time, it is necessary to send it to the medical treatment in time.

Classification of stroke severe stroke

Heat spasm -because sweating loses a large amount of sodium chloride and does not supplement it in time, it causes muscle (gastrocalone) pain and spasm. It usually occurs in the abdomen, arms or legs.

Fever -dizziness, headache, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, pale complexion, fatigue and muscle spasm, indifferent consciousness, and motion dysfunction can syncope. Due to the large amount of water and sodium chloride in high fever and a large amount of sweaty, severe dehydration; less urine, dry tongue, etc.

Frequency of heat -dazzling, coma, collapse, high heat (> 40 ° C), fainting, etc. In severe cases, it can cause death.

What should I do if my child has a heat stroke?

It should be noted that if the child appears to be severely ill, it must be sent to the hospital in time.

Light heat stroke can consider the following methods.

(1) Immediately transfer: Immediately transfer the child to a cool and ventilated place. If there is conditions, it will be better to transfer to a room with air conditioning.

(2) Cooling: Reduce too much clothes on your child, wipe your body with cold water to wipe the body, and you can wipe the head, forehead, neck, underarms and groin on the forehead.

(3) Solid: In the case of children's consciousness, let the child drink a small amount of light saline to prevent dehydration.

Note: The high fever of heat stroke is mainly the imbalance of the body temperature regulation function. Do not take the fever for your child. You cannot achieve the purpose of the fever, and it may increase the child's heat stroke.

(4) Pediatric massage: After the above steps are processed, the children can be used to help the children take the acupoints such as Tianhe water, retreating Liuyu, and rubbing Yongquan for assistance.

Tianhe Water

[Positioning]: In the middle of the inside of the forearm, from the horizontal line of the wrist to the horizontal line of the elbow.

[Operation]: Push directly from the horizontal lines of the elbow to the horizontal lines of the food and the middle finger.

Retreat

[Positioning]: On the side edge of the forearm, from the horizontal line of the wrist to the horizontal line of the elbow.

[Operation]: Push directly from the horizontal lines of the elbow to the horizontal line of the wrist with food and middle fingers.

Rush

[Positioning]: In the depression at the junction of the first 1/3 and the last 2/3 of the bottom of the foot.

[Operation]: Press the acupoint with the thumb thread surface.

【references】:

Zhang Zhongling. The diagnosis and treatment of childhood heat stroke [J]. China Practical Pediatric Magazine, January 2002, 17 (1): 48-49.

Hei Lianmei. Children's heat stroke prevention and treatment quick investigation [n]. Parents must read, July 2019.

Supply: Liu Zhenjie and Liang Qingshun of the Department of Endocrinology of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Executive editor: Wu Yuan Tuan

Audit school pair: Zhuang Yingge

Editor in charge: Song Liping

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