There are symptoms in children that you
think to be petty, but they are really dangerous.
Becoming parents means that you have to be
in role of doctor in order to diagnose diseases for your babies when they have runny
nose, sneeze, irritability, and so on. Therefore, your medical knowledge
increases significantly.
Equipping more knowledge about worried
symptoms of diseases will help you care for your children better. In the point
of fact, there are pathological symptoms in kids that you think 'It is light',
'Simple, take a few pills', but they are more serious than you think.
Signs
of extremely bad pathology in kids
Here are 12 signs of diseases in kids that
you cannot disregard:
1. Have fever of 100.4°F or over for under three month old babies; over
101°F for 3-6-month-old babies; over 103°F for 6 month old
to 2-year-old babies.
Pediatricians stress that when fever
'attacks' your children, the temperature on thermometer is not as important as their
body temperature that you feel. You should specially note that for infants less
than 3 months, if they have fever to 100.4 ° F or higher, you should take
them to the nearest medical facility as quickly as possible. If your babies
have a fever because of infections such as urinary tract infection, it can
spread quickly throughout the body.
For over 2-year-old children, fever is
common disease, so you do not need to be too worried if your baby is not
dehydrated and has normal expression. However, if you are not sure about methods
to cure fever, you should consult your doctor.
2. Kids do not reduce fever, even taking medicine or fever lasts over 5
days
If you let your children take
fever-reducing medicines such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen, temperature on
thermometer still not decrease after 6 hours, call your doctor immediately.
This is sign of too severe infection and children’s body cannot immunize.
Children have fever because of infecting
flu virus or having cold will be cure within 5 days. The fever which lasts
longer although temperature is not very high can be caused by pneumonic
bacteria, and you should take them to see doctor.
3. Fever comes with stiff neck, headache, or rash (the same as bruises or
small spots)
If children have these symptoms, thing you
need to do immediately and frequently are taking them to visit doctors because
that can be signs of meningitis.
4. Rash in circular vortex, and small spots that do not disappear when you
press on the skin, or big bruises
Rash in circle with a light yellow spot at
center can be symptom of Lyme. You need to take your babies to hospital if
appearing tiny spots as end of needle under skin, because they can be sign of
many dangerous diseases. Any spreading bruises that do not know origin can be
expression on disorders of blood.
A big rash, with a little swell, can be
sign of allergy. If babies feel difficult to breath, be agitated or tired,
comatose, you should call doctor immediately.
Be
careful with red spots on babies’ body.
5. Show off new moles or shape of old mole changes
You need to track to moles of babies,
especially birth moles, because they have high risk of changing into
malignance. Pay attention to check baby’s skin carefully when having a bath,
and consult doctor if moles are transformation or swelling because they may be
initial sign of skin cancer.
6. Pain in lower or right abdomen, or have stomachache suddenly
If your children suffer from pain in lower
abdomen or in right abdomen, require them to try jumping up and down – if they
are more painful, it can be sign of appendicitis.
If babies are under 4 years old and have
stomachache irregularly, it can be expression of intussusception – a serious
disorder in kids when parts of intestine are entangled together. Pain increases
after every 20-60 minutes coming with vomiting, fever, blood in excrements, or
bowel goes out looking like grape jelly. Call a doctor if babies only pain, but
if pained seriously going with these above phenomena, you need to take them
directly to hospital.
7. Have headache in the early morning or at midnight coming with
vomiting
Be careful because this is sign of migraine
and you need to consult doctor’s to have appropriate treatment. Migraine in
babies is not dangerous and usually caused by the genetic. However, headache in
the early morning and at midnight can be omen of a dangerous illness, so you
need to take your kids to visit doctor.
Children
have headache in the early morning or at midnight can be sign of dangerous
illness.
8. Dry lips, little urination, flat fontanel (in newborn babies), dry
skin, less elastic skin, or nausea, diarrhea
All signs are due to body’s dehydration
which needs to be treated as soon as possible because it can cause shock. Call
emergency or take your kids to hospital immediately if you think they are in
alarm status. Or consult doctor to find out the ways providing water for
babies.
9. Be cyanosis or pale around mouth, difficult breath, contraction of
breast and abdomen
Respiratory problems in children become
more serious and worried when sounds coming from chest and lungs, not from nose
as usual.
Acute respiratory problems are often
because of choking, allergic reactions, asthma attacks (which can easily happen
in a few month-old infants), pneumonia, whooping cough, or laryngitis. Call an
ambulance or find the help of knowledgeable people right now.
If kids do not clearly show that they are
getting serious problems, check your children's breathing. Count times of
respiratory in 30 seconds and then multiply by 2; usual level is less than 60
times for infants, under 40 for under 1 year-old babies, under 30 for 1 – 3 year-old
kids, and less than 24 times with children 4 -10 year-old children.
10. Swell
tongue, lips, and eyes, especially coming with vomiting or itching
These are usually signs of serious allergic
reactions. Symptoms can include swell, shortness of breath, severe rash, and
need to cure immediately. Call an ambulance and if possible, inject a shot of
EpiPen or take a dose of Benadryl for your babies for allergy while waiting.
For less severe reaction, consult doctor.
11. Fall
down in under 6 month-old babies, change obviously about mind such as
nervousness or loss of consciousness, vomiting, or any injuries on body such as
bone fracture
These emergency situations need to be
diagnosed and prescribed by doctor, so you should take your babies to the
nearest medical care. In general, falling down of babies under 6 months old is
less serious if they fall in altitude that equals to height of them, and do not
fall on sharp and hard things.
12. Open
wounds large enough to put a cotton toothpick in or not stopping bleeding
though having made first-aid for a few minutes
They express that your children need to be
medical care (maybe need to suture, cover, dress the wounds), and depend on
serious level, thing you need to do is call an ambulance or call doctor.
Let your children visit doctor if they are
bitten and have a laceration on skin by animals, or by another baby.
