The child feels bad. What to do: call a doctor or wait and try to cope with the disease on your own?
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Dangerous symptoms in a child: when you need to call a doctor at home
All children are sick, so to make a hysterical about the cold or cough is not worth. The immune system of the child is not yet able to effectively fight with most infections, and the body will botherly react to any pathogen. Symptoms of disease develop quickly, but the recovery is also quickly coming. Of course, a small short-term increase in the temperature, discharge from the nose, a single liquid chair, the toddler's toddler should not become a reason to call a pediatrician to the house. You can cope with these problems yourself. But there are symptoms, the appearance of which requires decisive actions or even appeal to urgent medical care.
When you should call a doctor to a child
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Temperature:
- Temperature above 38 0WITH
- long-term increase in body temperature (more than 2 days);
- Increased temperature in combination with the appearance of rash, constant crying.
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Vomit:
- multiple, duration of more than 12 hours of vomiting leads to a sharp dehydration — It is necessary to cause a pediatrician to the house;
- vomiting in combination with a rash on the body, an increase in temperature;
- vomiting with blood admixture.
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Diarrhea:
- multiple liquid stool for more than 12 hours;
- Availability in feces of blood, black calm.
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Cough with difficulty breathing:
- bouts of a cough with a difficult breath — Be sure to call a doctor to a child to the house, you should not go to the clinic yourself;
- cough, skin sinusiness and mucous membranes;
- Cough and High Temperature or Long Temperature Increase.
- Rash, Especially in combination with elevated temperature, with the exception of typical and diathesis, which do not require a pediatrician call to the house.
- Permanent, unfortunate, according to Mom, and unnatural crying child — reason to call a doctor to a child at home.
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Rodnichok:
- Sphewing, especially in combination with drowsiness, light-in-friendly, lethargy, reduced tone of the muscles of the neck, rash on the skin;
- rotten (watering), especially in combination with lip dryness, rare urination, dark urine color.
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Skin burn with a diameter of more than 1 cm, especially when bubbles appear.
- Red leaky eyes, Selection of eyes. Conjunctivitis can also be dangerous and requires a pediatrician to call.
- Discharge From the ears, in contrast to the discharge from the nose, in which the doctor to cause a doctor to the house is not necessary, they require consultations of a specialist, as well as the allocation of the urethra in boys, and from the vagina in girls. Especially dangerous is the discharge from the navel in newborns.
- Permanent whims, Frequent mood change, no appetite (feeding feeding more than 2 times).
When the child should be called «Ambulance», and not a pediatrician at home
- The child is seriously sick and his The condition deteriorates sharply.
- The child does not respond to questions, is in a half-condition state, does not respond to stimuli or at all lost consciousness, Even if you do not know what it is connected with.
- Causes, Especially for the first time arising for more than a minute, accompanied by circulating eyes, lack of reaction on others, twitching limbs.
- In the nose, in the ear, in the respiratory tract, in other natural holes of the kid is located Foreign body or you assume it. Do not try to extract the item yourself, you risks push it even deeper or damage the body, you should not call a doctor to the house, it's a long time, call «Ambulance».
- Child Heavy and often breathe, skin and lips of it pale, with a bluish tint — This is a sign of acute oxygen starvation.
- Baby swallowed Potentially poisonous substance, «Adults» pills, «Children's» Tablets, even vitamins in large quantities. If you find a blank packaging of tablets in the hands of a child, but not sure that he ate them, still you should not hope for a challenge of a pediatrician to the house, you can miss the time, call «03».
- Injuries With suspected fracture, stretching, deep cuts with strong bleeding, extensive burns, head injuries with loss of consciousness — Either call «Ambulance», either deliver the child to the trauma.
When you should not call a doctor to the house, but still it is worth consulting
- The child is seriously sick and his The condition deteriorates sharply.
- The child does not respond to questions, is in a half-condition state, does not respond to stimuli or at all lost consciousness, Even if you do not know what it is connected with.
- Causes, Especially for the first time arising for more than a minute, accompanied by circulating eyes, lack of reaction on others, twitching limbs.
- In the nose, in the ear, in the respiratory tract, in other natural holes of the kid is located Foreign body or you assume it. Do not try to extract the item yourself, you risks push it even deeper or damage the body, you should not call a doctor to the house, it's a long time, call «Ambulance».
- Child Heavy and often breathe, skin and lips of it pale, with a bluish tint — This is a sign of acute oxygen starvation.
- Baby swallowed Potentially poisonous substance, «Adults» pills, «Children's» Tablets, even vitamins in large quantities. If you find a blank packaging of tablets in the hands of a child, but not sure that he ate them, still you should not hope for a challenge of a pediatrician to the house, you can miss the time, call «03».
- Injuries With suspected fracture, stretching, deep cuts with strong bleeding, extensive burns, head injuries with loss of consciousness — Either call «Ambulance», either deliver the child to the trauma.
Any deviations in the health of the baby who cause at least the slightest concern of attentive parents require a doctor's advice. Do not guess, seek the answers to your questions regarding the health of the child. Your alarms — This is already a reason, If not to call a pediatrician to the house, then at least for an extraordinary visit to the clinic. You can get a free consultation by calling the hotline in the help of the children's clinic, finally, just ask the pharmacy pharmacy, where you acquire medications for the baby. Unacceptable only «Walk hand» and wait for the child to recover on their own.
