Increasing the temperature of the human body in 90% of cases is the reaction of immunity on something alien - for viruses or bacteria. True, it is impossible not to mention the special states of the body (for example, about thermalosis), to which infectious pathogens have nothing. But about them later.
How to determine the increase in body temperature
Most adults, when increasing the temperature, feel weakness, chills, dizziness and t. D. These are symptoms not temperature, but the main disease. In any case, progress of technology If you have not reached your peak, then provided us with a good choice of means for measuring body temperature - glass with mercury column or electronic thermometers, degrees-nipples, remote sensors, and T. D.
We assume that with the main task of diagnosing elevated temperatures we coped.
Causes of body temperature
Before starting the struggle with a continuously growing body temperature, it is important to at least distantly have an idea of the possible reason for developing ailment. In addition to respiratory (ORVI, ORZ, Colds and influenza, bronchitis and t. D.) The body can attack other troubles. For example, acute surgical pathology or even preceding injury. Therefore, in attempts to reduce the temperature, forget about the need for consultation with the doctor can not be in any case.
In addition to acute diseases that cause a sudden increase in body temperature, there are a number of states in which the body (and, more precisely, our brain) reacts inadequate. This is the thermosis, which I have already mentioned at the beginning of the article. Such states arise against the background of stresses, chronic fatigue syndrome, neurological disorders, brain tumors affecting the center of thermoregulation. But with such states, the body temperature rarely exceeds the threshold of the mark of 37.8 degrees, although accompanied by a violation of well-being.
How to bring down a high body temperature with medicines
Currently, we are practically not limited to the choice of funds that are effectively and short time to knock down the high body temperature. But, unfortunately, there are nozzles of the opposite effect: they wanted as better, and they received the most severe states as a response of the body into a chemical. Therefore, in the table I led to readers our site is very short, but the most important information about the most frequently used to reduce the high body temperature of the means.
Amendments to her will be quite a lot.
- Most antipyretic drugs can coagulate the respiratory center and enhance bronchospasm (narrowing the respiratory tract). Therefore, it is important for no means to exceed dosage and follow the condition of the patient.
- It is important to know that not a single tool except Ibuprofen is not allowed to use in young children. But there are exceptions for everything, so brigades Ambulance for high temperatures in children do «Lithic mixture» - Analgin + Dimedrol + Papaverin or No-Spa (as needed). Dimedrol, as an antihistamine (antiallergic) agent of the 1st generation prevents the development of side effects and complications from the use of analgin. Actually, such a mixture can be done at home, replacing diphroll on, for example, suprastin or claritine.
- Restriction on the frequency of use of any of the above funds: no more than 4 times a day, t.E. no more than every 6 hours. If you cannot achieve the desired (or safe) body temperature, the means of different groups can be alternating every 4 hours.
For example, you can first give ibuprofen in the age dosage, and after 4 hours (if the temperature rises again) - already one of the forms of paracetamol.
Physical methods of combating high temperature
In addition to drugs, both in children and adults, use physical body cooling methods. Only this does not mean that a person can be knocked into the bathroom with ice (although it is very rare, to avoid lesion of the brain, it is simply necessary).
The most common way is to wip the entire body of water temperature water. During the disease, a person sweats, the skin fat is produced hard, pores are cleaned, and the next temperature rise is more difficult to stop. Wiping contributes to the purification of pores, but not in the usual «cosmetic» understanding, and sufficiently for normal skin breathing.
On the wrist area and whiskey you can put ice cubes wrapped in a clean napkin. The principle is simple - the blood-based blood vessels cool and cools the other organs.
As solutions for wipes, you can use 20-30% alcohol or 9% vinegar (table), divorced in a glass of water. All errors concerning the degree of absorption of alcohol and vinegar into the skin are absolutely groundless. At high body temperature, solutions in such concentrations evaporate in a few minutes and do not fall into the blood. It has long been checked by indicators and tests for blood alcohol.
And finally, let's remind readers our site that should not be engaged in self-medication. The article describes the measures to combat temperature to the examination of the doctor or during the already prescribed treatment when the body takes time to fight infection. «Shoot» Temperature below 38 degrees should not be in children, and in adults (in the absence of brain or convulsions) - below 38.5 degrees Celsius.
