What should I do if my child has fever with otitis?

1 The main causes of the phenomenon

The body temperature directly depends on the metabolic processes inside our body. During otitis within the human body, there is a strong inflammatory process. As a result of this inflammation, the composition and condition of the blood changes. Information that the body was infectious disease, enters the human brain, the department, which is called the hypothalamus or a substitution. Having received this information, the hypothalamus responds to it with an increase in body temperature in order to protect the body from infection and eliminate inflammation. Therefore, the temperature at the baby's otitis is rather good than bad: it means that the body is struggling with the infection, trying to suppress the activity of pathogenic bacteria.

Why does the earache most often occur in young children? The child's body has weak immunity, so it is more susceptible to various virus attacks. Babies often get cold, the infection that occurs in the nasopharynx of the child, moves into the ear tube along with the mucus and causes inflammation and swelling.

2 Necessary actions of

The baby's body is not yet fully capable of controlling the body's thermoregulation, so the temperature in the otitis can have a wide enough range and rise to 40 ° C.This disease in a child is always more complex and difficult than in an adult. Disease-causing microbes quickly fall from the throat and nose into the middle ear of the child, provoking a severe inflammatory process. Therefore, the temperature may not drop for a sufficiently long time.

Often parents begin to panic when they understand that the child has a fever, and give the baby an antipyretic. However, to knock down heat is not always the right decision. The fever in otitis can last from 3 to 7 days, and this is the norm: the body eliminates all pathogenic microbes and fights infection. As soon as the brain receives a signal that the danger has passed, the temperature will begin to drop. By knocking down the temperature, you do not let the body fight inflammation. In addition, the natural thermoregulation of the body, which is not fully formed in the young body, is strayed. Remember that muffling a symptom does not mean getting rid of the disease. Doctors recommend to bring down the temperature only if the mark on the thermometer shows 40. If the fever lasts more than a week, you can slowly help reduce it. For this, it is not necessary to immediately give the baby an antipyretic. Try to appeal to folk remedies. Wiping the body with a weak cool solution of vinegar helps in such cases.

In no case do compresses of warming character, if the temperature is high. They will provoke a further increase in temperature, which is dangerous for the child's life.

The fact that lowering the heat is not recommended, does not mean that you do not need to treat the disease. It is necessary to consult a doctor who prescribes antibiotics. Proper treatment will help the body fight inflammation, relieve pain, and you will quickly defeat otitis media.

3 Symptoms without symptoms

Otitis without temperature is most often when the ear is damaged, for example, inside the wound was formed. In this case, the infection in the body itself is not observed. If germs get into the wound, there is a risk that the damaged area will become inflamed and bite. In this case, the pain will increase, which is especially difficult to bear in childhood.

To provoke ear damage, active cleaning or ingress of water into the ear can occur. Also, the child can damage the ear, for example, with a pen or by inserting a foreign object into it.

To avoid wrinkling it is necessary, at the first unpleasant sensations in the ear, to try to identify the cause and treat the wound with an antiseptic. However, to identify the cause of inflammation in a small child is difficult: the baby can not correctly describe the nature and localization of pain. In such cases, consult a doctor immediately.

As a rule, if the otitis is not accompanied by fever, the treatment is done without antibiotics: the body is able to cope with the disease without their help. However, too much pain and purulent discharge can cause the prescription of certain drugs and drops that have analgesic and antibacterial properties.

4 Why should I not start a disease?

Remember that in no case should you delay the treatment. At the first symptoms of otitis one should consult a specialist for advice. Untimely treatment or its absence can serve to the fact that otitis will develop into a chronic disease. In addition, untreated disease can cause hearing impairment.

Successfully cured otitis can return again. To prevent this from happening, pay special attention to prevention. Wear a child warmer, teach the baby to remark, and if he is not yet able to do this procedure on his own, constantly clean the nose of the mucus. Do not forget about vitamins: it is important to work on increasing the child's immunity.

Young children are not always able to complain that they have something hurts. So watch his behavior. If the kid grabs himself by the ears, becomes irritable, inactive, refuses to eat and often cries, there is reason to be worried. Purulent discharge from the ears also indicates the presence of the disease. It is much easier to cure a sickness in time than a neglected otitis.