How to knock down heat for no reason?

Whichever reason is caused by the temperature, its rise, even strong, is not a reason for panic. First you need to remember if there was a day before such an event, which could provoke such a reaction of the body. In children up to 2.5 years in the first place is to check the teeth and gums and observe how the temperature will change within 1-2 days.

In most cases, a high temperature without a cause occurs against the background of respiratory viral pathologies. The appearance of other symptoms can contain quite strong immunity. Do not rush to bring down the temperature until it rises to 38-39 degrees. This temperature is relatively safe for humans. Another thing is that not everyone can tolerate it.

If the fever causes a strong weakness, a strong deterioration in the general condition, the body needs help. But for this it is not necessary to immediately resort to the help of antipyretic drugs, which have certain side effects and may not have the best effect on the health of different organs. You can alleviate the condition with the help of popular alternative means: plenty to eat with vegetable infusions, use of foods high in vitamin C (it will prevent blood clotting and help the immune system in its hard work), taking "ascorbic", wiping with water or other effective compounds.

All of the above procedures will be useful regardless of what caused the temperature increase. They can not do much harm, but they can support the water-salt balance and keep a further increase in the thermometer column.

If the temperature continues to rise, and it is not possible to call a doctor urgently, what drugs can you try to bring it down to normal levels? Usually, there is no need to purchase expensive drugs for this purpose. Most often it is enough to receive budgetary funds: "Aspirin" (acetylsalicylic acid) or "Paracetamol", which is better to have in stock in each medicine cabinet. By the way, if you read the annotation of many children's and adults' expensive medications, you can often find one of these components in their composition.

As for "Paracetamol", that is the opinion that this remedy helps to bring down the temperature mainly in viral infections. If the cause of the disease is a bacterial infection, the effect of the drug will be short-lived. Thus, "Paracetamol" can be useful for self-diagnosis of diseases before the arrival of a doctor.

Since the rise in temperature is often associated with inflammatory processes, there will be no harm from using NSAIDs. Anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antipyretic properties are possessed by Ibuprofen, Nimid, Nimesulid, Naiz, and Analgin (not everyone knows, but this drug also reduces the temperature, and not only relieves pain, like many medicines classified as to analgesics), "Pentalgin", etc.

If the temperature is high in the child and alternative means do not help to return it to normal, you can resort to the above mentioned means, but in a lower dosage. And it is better to purchase in advance children's forms of medicines (Paracetamol in the form of suspension or syrup, Panadol or Efferalgan in the form of syrup and candles, Cephepone D suppository or Ibuprofen, Kalpol suspension, etc.).

By the way, the use of drugs from heat and fever in the form of rectal suppositories will help to avoid side effects on the stomach, characteristic of drugs in the form of tablets. They are best used not only by children, but also by adults who have problems with the digestive system.

Medication is usually recommended at a temperature above 38 degrees. But there are some groups of people who will have to take care of the normalization of temperature much earlier, when the thermometer's column exceeds the mark of 37.5. We are talking about patients with pathologies of the nervous system and a tendency to convulsions. When pregnancy is not recommended to tolerate a temperature above 38 degrees, but on the last terms to take care of its normalization is necessary even when the thermometer shows 37.5 degrees.

If the temperature does not rise above the low-grade values, but lasts for several days, you do not need to postpone the trip to the doctor, but also to shoot down a non-dangerous temperature without the need for normal health, too, does not make sense, especially when it is not known for sure what caused it increase.

Remedies for fever

Well, apparently, it's time to get acquainted with drugs that will help suppress heat regardless of whether it occurred without a cause or is accompanied by other symptoms signaling the rampant inflammatory process. To reduce the temperature in children and adults, it is customary to use drugs based on acetylsalicylic acid and paracetamol.

Even in Soviet times, doctors recommended that adults take ½ aspirin and 1 paracetamol tablet at the same time (the child's dose is 2-4 times less). But today acetylsalicylic acid fell into the disfavor of doctors because of the harmful effect on the stomach and the detected ability to act on the organs like some viruses. For adults, the drug will not bring much harm, on the contrary it will promote the dilution of blood. But the children can provoke Reye's syndrome with damage to the liver and brain. This disease belongs to the category of rare, but high mortality rates (one out of every five children dies) demand some caution.

Paracetamol, however much controversy around it, is still actively used to reduce the temperature in children and adults. On the drugstore shelves, you can find a variety of drugs on the temperature, the basis of which is this component (tablets "Paracetamol" and almost all of the above drugs for children with rare exceptions).

"Paracetamol" - an inexpensive analgesic, which in parallel antipyretic and some anti-inflammatory effect. It is available in the form of tablets (200, 325 and 500 mg), capsules (325 mg), syrup (50, 60 and 100 ml bottles), suspensions (100 and 200 ml bottles) and rectal suppositories (suppositories 80, 170 and 330 mg). It is used to relieve pain and combat hyperthermia against inflammatory diseases.

Tablets and capsules are forms that treat patients older than 3 years. We will not talk about any specific dosages, because these are tablets of temperature, which means that they should be drunk as needed. But about the marginal doses worth mentioning, that will help to avoid an overdose.

So, children under 6 years of age per day can be given no more than 1-2 g of the drug in tablets (0.06 g for each kilogram of the weight of the baby). Children under 12 years can take no more than 2 g of paracetamol per day, and adults - no more than 3-4 g.

Suspension with different flavors is the form of the drug used in pediatrics from the age of 1 month. The bottle is equipped with a measuring spoon, which allows you to accurately adhere to the prescribed dosage. Breastfed for up to 3 months is prescribed for taking 2 ml of the drug, toddlers up to one year should take 2-2.5 ml of suspension, children under 6 years old - 5-10 ml, children older - 10 to 20 ml per reception. Calculating the daily dose, you need to remember that it should not exceed 0.06 g of paracetamol per kilogram of the child's weight (in 5 ml of the suspension contains 120 mg of the active substance).

For children from 1 month to 3 years, the rectal form of the drug in the form of suppositories is calculated. A single dose of the drug in this case should not be more than 0.015 g per kilogram of weight. When using suppositories for treatment of children older than 3 years and adults, remember that the dosage in this case should be higher, but not more than the maximum values indicated for tablets.

Syrup is a form of medicine that can treat temperature in patients older than 3 months. Breasts are given 2.5-5 ml syrup, children 1-5 years - 5-10 ml, children up to 12 years can give up to 20 ml of sweet medication per reception. Patients weighing more than 60 kg can take 4 to 8 tsp. Medicines, which is probably not very convenient compared to tablets, especially when you consider that the frequency of medication is usually 3-4 times a day.

To whom is paracetamol contraindicated? Patients who have increased sensitivity to the components of the form of the drug used, as well as those who have impaired renal and hepatic impairment (organ failure). If it is a rectal form, it is not used in the case of inflammatory processes with localization in the rectum.

Speaking about the side effects of the drug, you should immediately mention that taking it for a long time in high doses is not recommended, since this will negatively affect the liver. Other unpleasant symptoms may include renal colic and kidney inflammation, anemia, changes in blood composition, drowsiness or overexcitation of the central nervous system, weakening of myocardial contractility, nausea and pain along the GI tract, allergic reactions, including Quincke's edema. Good side effects from taking the drug are rare.

"Ibuprofen" - the second most popular drug, taken with inflammation and fever. In many people, this drug as a wand-rescue rod for use in various situations: for colds, inflammation, pain syndrome, fever without a cause or accompanied by other symptoms of the disease. The low price of tablets and the minimal risk of side effects attract many people, so in home medicine kits he is a permanent resident.

We are more accustomed to that the drug with this name is a light pink tablets in the shell. But in fact, there are many other forms of release of this drug: effervescent tablets, capsules, ointment and gel, injectable solution ampoules, as well as a suppository and suspension that are used in pediatric practice and for the treatment of adult patients.

What form of the drug does it make sense to use at a temperature? All but the forms for topical application, intended more for the removal of pain and inflammation in the muscles and joints. The injections of the drug are also used for other purposes.

How correctly to apply a preparation at a heat and a fever? Any tablets and capsules called "Ibuprofen" are recommended by the manufacturers after eating to prevent irritation of the gastric mucosa, which is characteristic of NSAIDs (the first dose can be taken on an empty stomach, but you will have to drink a lot of water).

Tablets in a film and capsules are swallowed whole with a sufficient amount of water (not less than ½ cup). They are designed to treat patients older than 12 years. Multiplicity of the drug 3-4 times a day (the interval between doses is not less than 3-4 hours). During the day, a teenager can take no more than 1 g of ibuprofen, an adult patient - up to 1.2 g.

Effervescent tablets, which can be treated with 6 years, do not need to be swallowed or kept in the mouth, they make a medicinal solution from them, dissolving the medicine in 1 tbsp. Water, which should be drunk immediately after cooking.

Children up to 12 years of age can take from 2 to 4 effervescent tablets. Older patients may take 1-2 tablets per reception at intervals of at least 4 hours.

Suspension is a form of the drug that can be used to reduce the heat in children, starting at six months of age. Breast a year before suspension, give three times a day for ½ tsp. Children under 3 years old take the drug in the same dosage, but the frequency of reception can be increased up to 4 times a day (or 1 tsp three times a day).

A single dose for children 3-6 years is 1-1.5 tsp. With the frequency of administration three times a day, but for small patients up to the age of 10, the same dose can be given 4 times a day (or 2 tsp three times a day).

Adolescents under the age of 12 give 2-3 tsp. Three times a day.

After vaccination in small children, the temperature can rise very much, in this case the doctor can allow ibuprofen to be given from 3 months (½ tsp twice daily).

Treatment of rectal suppositories bypassing the gastrointestinal tract can begin with a three-month-old age. A single dose is calculated based on the weight of the small patient. Babies up to 8 kg injected no more than 3 suppositories a day with an interval of at least 6 hours, children with a body weight of not more than 12 and a half kilograms of candles per day can be increased to 4. At a time introduce 1 suppository.

Treatment of high temperature with ibuprofen in children is carried out no more than 3 days.

What are the contraindications? It is not prescribed for hypersensitivity to the components of the drug and other NSAIDs, erosive and ulcerative gastrointestinal pathologies and gastrointestinal hemorrhages, chronic inflammation in the rectum (for candles), severe liver and kidney pathologies, especially those with organ failure, hypokalemia. Undesirable NSAIDs after aortocoronary shunting, with violations of hemostasis, pregnancy (in the last trimester) are undesirable.

Caution in taking ibuprofen should be observed for people with a predilection for alcohol, during pregnancy and lactation, as well as for those who use corticosteroids, antidepressants from the SSRI category, drugs that reduce blood viscosity (NSAIDs in themselves are able to reduce clotting time). Babies can be given medication only with the permission of the pediatrician.

The drug of any of the forms of release according to the instructions has a large number of side effects: various unpleasant symptoms from the gastrointestinal tract and liver, including the development of pancreatitis and hepatitis, bronchospasm, the appearance of dyspnea, reversible hearing and vision impairment, eyelid edema, headaches, irritability, kidney failure , hyperhidrosis and others. The truth of the development of such phenomena is associated primarily with the use of large doses of medication and treatment for more than 5 days.

"Nimesulid" (analogues "Nimesil", "Nimid", "Nyz") is a drug from the category of NSAIDs, which is also used not only to relieve pain and inflammation, but also to combat high fever. All 3 properties of the drug are expressed equally.

This drug is available in the form of tablets ("Nimesil" - a preparation in the form of powder for the preparation of oral solutions) and is intended for the treatment of patients older than 12 years. A single dose of medicine for any age is 1 tablet (1 bag of Nimesil dissolved in a glass of water). Multiplicity of the drug - 2 times a day.

Drug therapy is possible for 15 consecutive days.

Preparations of nimesulide are not prescribed in cases of hypersensitivity of the organism to their components, the presence in the anamnesis of reactions of intolerance to any of the NSAIDs and negative reactions to nimesulide on the part of the liver, exacerbations of ulcerative and erosive diseases of the digestive tract, any bleeding and clotting disorders. Contraindicated taking medication for severe pathologies of the heart, liver and kidneys associated with a violation of their work, alcoholism and drug addiction.

The drug should not be taken if you suspect a flu or other viral infections, as well as acute surgical pathologies, so you must first make sure that the temperature is caused by other causes.

I must say that, despite a decent list of side effects, they appear relatively infrequently. The most "popular" symptoms are: nausea, diarrhea, epigastric pain, increased hepatic enzymes. Less often patients complain of dizziness, increased blood pressure, dyspnea, constipation, exacerbation of ulcerative diseases, edematous and allergic reactions. Other side effects occur rarely and usually against a background of certain pathologies.

If it is a question of a virus infection, it is necessary to understand that the human body with this "infection" is able to cope on its own. It is believed that with increasing temperature, the production of interferons, protein compounds, which increase the resistance of the body's cells to viruses, also increases. Thus, the body independently builds protection against infection, and it does not need to interfere with it.

When a viral infection occurs at a high temperature, many doctors do not advise it to knock down if it does not rise above 38.5-39 degrees, explaining this by the fact that at such temperatures, the production of interferon is optimal. Other physicians prescribe antipyretics at 37.5-38 degrees Celsius and with interferon preparations (Viferon, Interal, Avonex, Grippferon, etc.). Which of them is right?

Interferon the organism can receive two ways: to develop it independently or to receive from the outside with chemist's preparations. Both ways are equally effective. But suppressing natural immunity with the help of antipyretics, we accustom the body to wait for help from outside. And this is not necessary if the body itself is able to produce defensive proteins. Do not rush to bring down the temperature if you suspect a viral infection. Let the body itself learn to fight.

Alternative treatment

High temperature without a reason is an occasion to think about possible health problems, but not a signal for panic and haste. It is believed that at the age of one year the baby should be knocked down if it exceeds 38 degrees. Most older children can safely withstand a temperature of 38.5-39 degrees. Adults are not advised to bring down the temperature below 38 (and if this increase is observed on the eve of going to bed), and with normal state of health, you can wait until it rises to 39 degrees.

Another question that arises when the temperature rises, than to knock it down: by pharmacy drugs or by alternative means? It must be said that many pediatricians themselves recommend not to rush to "poison" the body with medicines, if there are many other ways to combat hyperthermia, known in the people for a long time and for many years rescued children and adult patients in a similar situation. This is a people's experience, tested by time, applicable to people of any age. Moreover, the experience is safer than taking chemicals.

With the help of chemist's drugs, we actually bring the temperature back to normal (it drops to 36.6-37 degrees), while it would be more correct to reduce it by half a degree to keep from lifting to critical values, but not to interfere with the immune system. This can be done with the help of usual wiping, when the hands, legs and body of the patient are wiped with a damp cloth.

Which solutions are best used for rubbing? The most popular means are vinegar and vodka (alcohol), which are practically in every house. Evaporating from the surface of the body, they cool it in 1 procedure by about 0.5 degrees. If the wiping is done to a child or a person with sensitive skin, vinegar (both table and apple) or alcohol should be diluted 1: 1 with clean water at room temperature or slightly warmed.

In addition, you can wipe the body with a wet towel or fan it with a dense cloth for an hour, which usually gives a lasting effect. If the room is quite warm, babies can be briefly wrapped in a diaper moistened with water at room temperature. In general, water can be used even for wiping, they will simply give a short-lived effect, so it will be necessary to repeat the procedure quite often.

Vinegar, vodka and other wipes do not occur if a person with high temperature remains cold feet and hands.

Another popular and effective means are compresses. At a temperature they put on the forehead, on the groin and elbow (inner side), the calves of the legs. What can be used for compresses: cabbage leaves, packets of cold water (you need to be very careful, since severe cold can cause vasospasm), a composition of water with the addition of alcohol or cologne (moisten the tissue and apply on the forehead, changing as it warms up), composition of 2 parts water and 1 part vinegar, a mixture of vodka and apple cider vinegar (usually used for impregnating high socks or golf, which are then worn on their feet).

In any of the compositions for the compress can add a couple of drops of essential oil of tea tree, eucalyptus, fir. Evaporating, the air will have antibacterial and antiviral effects by inhaling them through the mouth or nose.

It is safe to lower the body temperature in infants (for example, in the period of teething) with an enema. You do not need to prepare any special preparations. For the procedure you will need a syringe and pure boiled water without additives. The liquid must be at room temperature.

Babies up to six months can enter no more than 60 ml of water into the rectum, older children will need 2-3 times more fluid.

Some doctors disagree with the use of clean water for the setting of enemas and advise for the procedure to use a chamomile broth or a weak saline solution.

As you know, the property of lowering the body's high temperature, even if it arose without a cause, is vitamin C. It does not necessarily have to run to the pharmacy for "ascorbic", because this vitamin can be found in large quantities in the usual products on our table. A lot of useful at the temperature of vitamin is contained in:

• citrus fruits (especially in oranges and lemons, which in the period of infectious pathologies are usually in stores in a wide range)
• red and black currant (you can use the juice of fresh berries or "raw" jam, where the vitamin is well preserved for a long time)
• dried apricots and dried apricots,
• hurme,
• hips and sea buckthorn,
• apples,
• parsley and dill,
• cabbage (especially colored and broccoli),
• berries of mountain ash, viburnum, elderberry, cranberries.

If during the period of a malaise include these foods in your diet, the immune system will work in concert, and the temperature is unlikely to go beyond acceptable limits.

What else can you think of at a high temperature? Compresses with grated onions or potatoes, which must be applied to the forehead or calves of the legs (under the socks).

You can also try to ease the condition with a cool bath. The water temperature in it should be close to normal body temperature (it is better that it was a couple of degrees higher). In such a bath, you can lie for about 10-20 minutes, adding essential oils to the water, effective against viruses and bacteria.

It is believed that a mixture of grated apples and onions, flavored with natural honey, also has a good antipyretic effect. All components can be taken in equal amounts and consumed three times a day before meals. At one time you need to eat 1 tablespoon. Natural medicine. But if the patient has an allergy to bee products, this recipe is best not to apply.

At a temperature doctors always recommend a plentiful drink. If a child or an adult consumes a lot of fluids, there will not be a strong overheating of the body. In this case, you can drink everything except for hot drinks. The liquid should be warm or at room temperature.

A composition based on milk, in which honey and garlic are added, is considered a good remedy for colds that help to sweat and normalize the temperature. But the patient can also give any compotes and juices that will help to supply the body with the necessary vitamins and vitamins C, tea with jam (preferably green), herbal decoctions.

Treating herbs at high temperatures can be of great help. In many houses, in addition to rose hips, viburnum or mountain ash, you can find stocks of dried nettle, nettle (plants similar in appearance to the previous plant, for which it is sometimes called deaf nettle), linden flowers, dried fruits and raspberry leaves. Also suitable are elderberry and chamomile flowers, yarrow herb and other plants that can reduce temperature (and there are about 50 names of them). From these herbs and plants you can prepare antipyretic decoctions and infusions, enhancing the effect of their intake with the help of lemon juice and orange, honey, jam.

If the house does not have medicinal herbs, they can always be purchased at the pharmacy, and at a very reasonable price. There you can also find ready-made antipyretic herbal preparations.

It is clear that herbal preparations can not quickly cope with fever and heat, so it is better to start taking them in advance when the temperature has not yet reached critical values. Harm such drinks will not bring, and stop the temperature rise will help. The main thing is to use those herbs for which you or your child does not have allergies.

At high temperatures, herbal teas should be combined with wipes and compresses. And if such treatment does not help, then it will be necessary to resort to the help of pharmaceutical means, as advised by experienced doctors.

Homeopathy at high temperature

Although many doctors treat homoeopathic treatment with great skepticism, considering that it is based on the placebo effect, when the "dummy" has a curative effect only because a person believes in its effect and thus activates the forces of his body, at high temperature without a cause it can prove to be very effective.

The fact that the selection of drugs in homeopathy is not so much taking into account the cause of temperature increase, but based on the sensations of a person and the characteristics of his body. This approach to the problem of high temperature has its advantages, because it excludes errors in the diagnosis.

It is clear that the final diagnosis in any case, you will have to install, but already during the diagnosis you can help a person cope with a strong fever, if it significantly affects the patient's well-being and causes disruption of the vital organs. Sometimes the temperature itself is an obstacle to serious diagnosis, and here again homeopathic remedies can come to the rescue.

What preparations can the homeopath physician prescribe for fighting hyperthermia:

• If the temperature of a person appeared against the background of strong feelings and stress or after injuries and intensifies in the evening, alternating with a chill, Aconitum can be prescribed.
• In addition to temperature, hyperemia of the face, anxiety and pulsating headaches are observed? Deterioration of the state is observed during active activities and mental work, and in bed, a person becomes easier? Will help the drug Belladonna.
• Sometimes patients complain that they have a high temperature not constantly, but periodically at the same time. In such cases, homeopaths usually prescribe homeopathic remedy China.
• In the initial stage of the disease, when there are no other symptoms yet, and the thermometer's column gradually moves upward, which can be indicated by reddened cheeks, decreased appetite and thirst, adults and children are usually prescribed a medicine called Ferrum phosphoricum.
• Little children who because of the temperature begin to be capricious and cry, ask for hands, require attention, and the next moment can already smile, as if nothing had happened, will help the drug Pulsatilla nigricans. The same drug will be useful to those patients who feel the improvement from fresh air and do not feel thirst even with severe fever.

Homeopathic preparations in the acute stage of the disease (namely, it is indicated by a rise in temperature) is recommended to be taken in 30 potencies. Single dose - 3 grains, which must be kept in the mouth until completely dissolved. Take medication at the indicated dose should be at intervals of 4 hours, until the temperature is normalized. Usually, if this does not happen after 3 medications, it is worth changing the drug.

Usually, for the treatment of children, dose adjustment is not required, but if the child is small, it is worth starting with the minimum doses (1-2 grains). Children up to 3 years of age, grains better dissolve in a glass of water. Give the medicine to the child with an interval of 2-4 hours. If even after the 3 intake of improvement does not come, you need a consultation of a homeopathic doctor and a change of the drug.

In a conventional pharmacy, you can also find homeopathic remedies effective for cold and temperature. It is to such drugs that "Viburkol" belongs. Suppositories with this name have anti-inflammatory, anticonvulsant (prevents febrile convulsions in children), analgesic and antipyretic effect of inflammatory processes of different localization, so even in the absence of other symptoms of the disease, their use will only benefit. The drug can be used for fever caused by teething in children.

Newborns in the first month of their life are administered rectal suppositories 4-5 times a day. A fourth of the suppository is used for the procedure.

Breasts up to six months at the beginning of the disease apply 2 candles per day (½ candle per procedure). When the condition improves, inject ½ candle twice a day.

Children older than six months are administered 1 candle 4-5 times a day, and when the acute period of illness passes and the temperature subsides, reduces the amount of the drug to 2 suppositories per day.

Teenagers and adults at a high temperature of the suppository can be administered one piece 3-4 times per hour for two hours. Further, the treatment is carried out using no more than 3-5 suppositories per day.

The drug has virtually no contraindications for the exclusion of individual intolerance of its components. It can be used during pregnancy and lactation. In some cases, the side effects of the drug are limited to mild allergic reactions.