It's autumn now, which is the season of harvest for people. When they work, they tend to sweat easily. Autumn is also a windy season, hot and cold, so it's easy to catch a cold. Sometimes catching a cold is also a very annoying problem. It can cause headaches, fever, and lack of energy all over the body. Adults may even be at risk. If children feel uncomfortable and refuse to take medicine, it's really a troublesome thing. So, what's going on with a fever?
What is a fever
There are many reasons for fever, such as fever caused by acute inflammation: generally, fever is an inflammatory response. A sudden outbreak of high fever (38.5 ℃ -40 ℃) is usually caused by bacterial infection in the body, followed by a cold: from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, after a person has a cold, the skin of the body is invaded by evil qi such as wind, heat, cold, dampness, dryness, and fire, causing wind and cold, which can result in the inability to expel hot air from the body and cause fever.
Fever can also be caused by indigestion and fatigue. Indigestion: due to improper diet, food accumulates in the intestines; Food that cannot be digested will ferment in the body to produce heat, leading to fever. Deficiency heat and fever caused by physical weakness and exhaustion. Commonly seen in women during menopause, it can easily lead to heart weakness and fever. If you have this symptom, do not forcefully reduce inflammation and fever, otherwise your body will become increasingly weak.
How to take care of fever
There are also many ways to deal with a fever, such as bed rest and reduced activity. If there are symptoms, they should be isolated first to avoid transmission. In terms of diet, you can eat some high vitamin, digestible liquid or semi liquid diet; Drink plenty of water, mainly 3000ML or more per day. Regularly measure body temperature, and physical cooling methods can also be used. Take a warm water or alcohol bath, measure and record on the temperature sheet 30 minutes after cooling. For patients whose body temperature gradually decreases, attention should be paid to keeping warm. For patients who sweat excessively, they should change laundry frequently and strengthen skin care.
There are many reasons that can cause a fever, such as weather conditions, physical problems, and so on. Therefore, everyone must pay attention to keeping warm and enhancing their resistance to heat. If you have a fever, you can eat more liquid food, such as millet porridge, milk, chicken soup and other food. Drinking some hot brown sugar ginger water can drive away the cold. If you have a cold, you must drink more water. Brown sugar ginger is a good choice.
