Why does the child have a headache and fever?

1 Causes of headaches and temperature

There are a large number of diseases for which a combination of the symptoms we are considering is very characteristic. The most common of these diseases are the following:

• chronic and acute diseases that are infectious;
• pathology in the development of ENT organs( various clinical forms of otitis, frontal sinus, sinusitis, tonsillitis and others);
• diseases that cause inflammation in the brain;
• diseases affecting the urinary system;
• acute inflammatory diseases affecting the organs located in the abdominal cavity;
• inflammatory processes that appear on the patient's skin, which are accompanied by purulent discharge;
• poisoning with certain poisons and all kinds of harmful chemicals;
• obtaining a solar or thermal shock;
• malignant tumors having any location, leukemia;
• thermoneurosis or VSD, most common in adolescence;
• damage to the hypothalamus, which was obtained as a result of the developed tumor, the resulting injury.

To determine the exact cause of a child's headache, attention should be paid to its behavior. Be sure to try to find out where the localization of the pain experienced by the child is. It is important to determine whether the pain is unilateral or diffuse, sudden or it grows gradually, dull or acute, can go away alone or only after taking painkillers or soothing drugs. Parents should always pay attention to whether pain and temperature are accompanied by other symptoms, such as pallor or lethargy.

It should be noted that the head of a child can be ill under the following circumstances that are not related to the presence of diseases:

• stress;
• increased physical activity;
• fatigue;
• long trip on transport;
• reaction to taking any medications and other similar situations.

It should be said that in the presence of such circumstances, the child's headaches are extremely rarely accompanied by intense heat.

2 When should I see a doctor immediately?

The doctor should always be consulted if the fever and headache continue for several days and medications that can help improve the child's well-being do not have the desired effect, and also when two symptoms are added at leastone symptom from the following list:

• complete absence of improvements in the state of the body, the headache becomes stronger, and the temperature is higher;
• nausea and / or vomiting;
• pain in the abdomen;
• disorders of stool - most often this is the presence of diarrhea or constipation;
• convulsions;
• loss of consciousness;
• significant changes in the child's habitual behavior;
• appearance of rashes of different nature in any parts of the patient's body;
• stiffness, that is, stiffness of the occipital muscles and other disorders that are neurological in nature;
• frequent urination, changes in the quality of urine - it became cloudy, changed the habitual color.

Pulsating and bulging fontanel, constant crying - this is typical for the youngest patients who are not yet one year old.

It should be remembered that all of the above symptoms may well end up as signs of severe enough diseases that require serious and very intensive therapy with medication or urgent surgical procedure. Do not forget that only a qualified doctor can properly conduct a child's examination, put him an accurate diagnosis and prescribe the best treatment.

3 A Dangerous Combination of

Symptoms Whatever the case, in most cases, a child's headache combined with a high fever indicates that the small patient has had a respiratory illness. After a while, the child has such common and quite familiar symptoms as a runny nose, coughing, lacrimation and some others.

Parents can not worry about their baby's condition if his body temperature does not exceed 38.5 °, and pain is of low or medium intensity. In such cases it is recommended to perform standard symptomatic treatment, abundant and frequent drinking, taking vitamins.

As a rule, this is enough to make the pain and heat disappear completely. If such treatment did not help, the patient's condition did not improve at all and other symptoms that are characteristic of more serious diseases began to appear, the baby should be shown to the doctor as soon as possible to establish an accurate diagnosis and the appointment of the right treatment.

4 First Aid Assistance

In order to find out the diagnosis and get the correct information about the treatment of the disease, it is necessary to call a doctor at home. However, before the doctor arrives, parents can alleviate the condition of their child on their own, having taken certain actions. It is not even difficult to do this.

The first thing to do when a child complains of a headache and has a high fever is to give him complete peace.

The child must always comply with bed rest, be in a room that was carefully ventilated before that.

A sickly baby should be provided with a plentiful drink, necessarily warm, and light food - this will allow him not to lose during the illness too much effort.

It is possible to give a child such antipyretic drugs as Ibuprofen and Paracetamol. Dosages and age limits for these medications are indicated in the instructions. In most cases, the heat can be reduced and the patient can be brought to normal by taking these medications, but the effect is too short. It speaks, first of all, that it is necessary to treat not a symptom, which is the high temperature, but the disease itself.

Do not cover the baby with a warm blanket and do not bathe in a warm bath, as this will cause an even higher temperature rise. At the same time the child experiences a great chill, he is very cold and he starts asking to hide it, but it is not worth giving in to these requests.