Because each organism is individual, at times mums are asked by a question, than to bring down temperature at the child if Nurofen does not help or assist.
What drugs can be used to lower body temperature?
To date, the choice of antipyretic drugs is large enough. However, often the drug of choice, in those cases when the temperature of the baby is increased, is all known Paracetamol. This drug has proven itself over many years of use. The effect of taking the drug comes in just 30 minutes and lasts 3-4 hours.
In addition, if Nurofen does not knock down the temperature in the child and the mother no longer knows what to do, you can also use Ibuprofen. This drug differs from the previous one in that the effect of its use comes only after 1-1.5 hours. However, the duration of the action thus increases, and is 6-8 hours. Because Ibuprofen is great if the night is approaching, and the body temperature does not decrease.
In addition to those listed above, such antipyretic drugs can also be used, such as:
The use of all known aspirin for children is unacceptable, because of the possible negative effects on the liver.
What nuances need to be considered when performing antipyretic therapy in children?
In those cases when the mother is not the first time to face a fever in a child, she already knows what to knock her down and which means more effectively.
However, it is also necessary to take into account the fact that the temperature is knocked down only if the following conditions are met:
- during a high fever, when the body temperature does not decrease within 3 hours;
- any antipyretic agent can not be used on an empty stomach;
- if after taking the medicine the temperature rises again before the time for re-admission has come, you can not use the drug of the same group. To reduce body temperature in the period between taking drugs, it is best to use physical methods (wiping).
How to behave at a very high temperature in children?
Quite often there are cases when the child has a high temperature, and what to knock her off does not know. In such situations, doctors can not do without.
With severe hyperthermia (an increase in temperature above 39 degrees), it is necessary to normalize it in a special way, which parents do not usually know about. The thing is that under such a situation there is an overexcitation of the thermoregulation center, which is in the brain.
In those cases when there is a fever accompanied by spasm of blood vessels, which manifests itself in the blanching of the skin, chills, and drugs that relieve spasm (for example, No-ShPA) are prescribed.
Thus, in order to understand why Nurofen does not knock down the temperature of the child, it is necessary first of all to find out the reason for its increase. Perhaps its increase is only a reaction of the body to the fact that, for example, a baby's teeth are chopped, and not a symptom of an infectious disease requiring medical intervention.