What are the symptoms of baby flu?

What are the symptoms of baby flu?

What are the symptoms of baby flu?

1. Fever and high fever baby flu symptoms? When the baby is suffering from the flu, he will have a fever due to viral infection, and it is easy to have a high fever of more than 40 degrees. Children's flu fever is generally high. Generally speaking, the smaller the child is, the more fever High, high fever can cause dehydration, convulsions, etc.
Care:

•  With a water temperature of 29 degrees to 3l degrees, help the child to take a warm bath, expand the blood vessels, and help the child to dissipate heat.
•  Open the air-conditioning to about 28 degrees, maintain ventilation, help convection, and relieve the child's discomfort.
• Don't let your child wear too much clothes. It should be loose and comfortable. If the child gradually starts to sweat, parents should help him to put on dry clothes, and don't let the child continue to wear clothes that have been wet or not breathable.

2. Vomiting, diarrhea, etc. Baby flu symptoms? Baby flu sometimes has gastrointestinal symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, etc., and the flu is easy to induce a variety of serious complications, such as pneumonia, myocarditis, otitis media, meningitis.
Care:

• When vomiting, please let the child's head side to prevent food from blocking the trachea.
• Avoid letting your child drink too much water. Although excessive vomiting is prone to dehydration, excessive water may cause the child to vomit, so use a small amount of electrolyte to help your child replenish.
• After the baby vomits, let him fast for a few hours. When drinking a small amount of electrolyte water and no vomiting, try to let him eat light food, such as porridge or white noodles. Never let your baby drink milk or dairy products to avoid vomiting.

3. Nasal congestion, runny nose Baby flu symptoms? Baby flu, when the child's nasal mucosal epithelial cells are infected with the virus, it will edema and congestion, secretion of mucus, so there are symptoms of nasal congestion, runny nose. When the above symptoms occur, in addition to giving the child a prescription prescribed by a doctor, home care can also take some measures to alleviate the symptoms:

• Application of nasal aspirator: The nasal obstruction can be sucked out by means of nasal inhalation.
• Use of cotton swabs: If you can see the obstruction in the nose of the child, it is recommended to use a baby cotton swab, apply a physiological saline solution, and put it into the baby's nose, preferably within a depth of one centimeter. The obstruction is removed. Parents should not be eager to take out the secretions of the child's nose and go too far into the nasal cavity, which may cause injury.
• Heat the nasal cavity: Damp the towel with hot water, put the towel on the nose of the child for hot compress, and make the nasal cavity open. (4) Raising the head: Do not let the child lie flat while sleeping, but should raise the head to make the child breathe smoothly.
• Replenishing boiled water: Allow young children to replenish warm water and moisturize their dry mouth.
• Steam: After the bathroom door is closed and the hot water is placed, let the child sit in the bathroom and breathe the moist warm water vapor to moisten the nose to make it smooth.

4. Cough Baby flu symptoms? Baby flu, there will be symptoms of cough, long-term cough is easy to cause sinusitis, stomach acid reflux and other complications, parents should not be ignored. Common treatments include steam and sputum, as detailed below:

• Steam treatment: steam therapy is often used in hospitals or clinics, which means adding tracheal dilator in steam. First, thinning the sputum and then withdrawing the sputum with a twitching tube. The treatment process is simple and effective, and parents can bring children. Use the instrument to help the hospital drain.
• Shooting method: Parents can use the way of back smashing at home to help children sputum. The younger children still don't have the ability to cough on their own. Parents see that the child suffers because of it, and the heart is even more uncomfortable. In fact, if you can cooperate with posture drainage and use the correct slap technique to loosen the sputum, you can help your baby to cough out by coughing or twitching. However, don't slap the back of the child at random, so that it will not cause more damage to the child due to the wrong position or the position of the shot. Please control the child's face if the child's face is purple or pale, and the breath is short. If breathing is difficult, stop the slam immediately. In addition, it is necessary to avoid smashing the sternum, spine, stomach, abdomen and lower waist; if the baby has emphysema, hemoptysis, mobile rib fracture, moderate pain, it is not appropriate to practice the sputum method to prevent the disease from worsening. The best time to shoot: 30 minutes before meals or 2 hours after meals. Do not take a shot when your child has just finished eating to avoid vomiting. It is better to take 3 to 4 shots per day, about 5 to 10 minutes at a time.

5. Sore throat Baby flu symptoms? If a child has symptoms of sore throat during the flu, he should be allowed to take more water, but not too hot or too cold food to avoid burns or convulsions. Parents should let their children eat some easily digestible foods, such as bean curd, etc. Don't give your child too much to dry, so as not to increase the difficulty and pain of swallowing. Parents should use painkillers that do not contain aspirin to relieve the pain and inflammation of young children. In addition, you should take more rest when you have symptoms of sore throat, avoid talking, parents can use a humidifier indoors to keep the room humidity.

6. The difference between baby flu and the common cold The baby is often not concerned about influenza, and it is usually confused with the common cold. But in fact, influenza is different from the common cold. It is a symptom caused by an infection caused by an influenza virus. Similar to a cold, but heavier than a cold, with severe systemic symptoms and a high fever, usually above 38 degrees or even at 39 degrees. In particular, headaches, general weakness, and muscle pain in the body are more serious. The duration is also relatively long. And because it is respiratory tract, it can be contacted with the patient, even without the patient present, because the patient coughs, sneezes, with droplets in the air, if the air is not particularly circulated, can float in the air for a long time, some people breathe May enter the body.

7. Prevention of pediatric influenza

• When the early spring is warm, parents should not rush to reduce the clothes for the children. When the temperature drops suddenly, it is necessary to add clothes in time.
• Experts say that about half of the flu is caused by hand contact, so develop good hygiene habits, wash hands before and after meals, strengthen food hygiene, pay attention to tableware disinfection and so on.
• Always keep the room clean, open the window ventilation, so that the room air is fresh, but also diligently be quilted and change clothes, less children to crowded public places.
• Reasonable arrangements for diet can improve your baby's immunity. In the daily diet, in addition to eating the right amount of fish, meat, chicken, eggs, you should eat more milk, soy products, vegetables and fruits. In addition, you should pay attention to drinking more water, because it is more likely to cause virus attack after getting angry.
• People's rest and sleep conditions will directly affect the level of resistance, so any activity should be appropriate, in the "spring sleepy" season, to ensure adequate sleep in children, is conducive to the growth and development of children, but also enhance immunity.