If you cover your child too much, he or she may suffer from "heatstroke in winter"

Can you still get heat stroke in the middle of winter?

According to Dahe Daily, Hu Wenmiao, director of the pediatric department at Zhengzhou Third People's Hospital, said that during the Spring Festival travel rush every year, they receive several newborns or infants with symptoms of "heat stroke." He reminded that the peak of the Spring Festival travel rush is coming soon, and parents who are traveling long distances must pay attention.

Hu Wenmiao said that heatstroke in infants and young children in winter mostly occurs in infants under one year old, especially newborns or babies of a few months old.

Although the baby's physiological activities have begun at this time, its respiratory and body temperature regulation centers are still not sound, and its adaptability to the external environment is poor. Therefore, if the clothes and quilts are too warm or the baby sleeps with a quilt over his head, he will sweat profusely, turn pale, have a high fever, convulse, and become comatose due to the high temperature. It may even affect the development of the nervous system and cause serious sequelae such as mental retardation and epilepsy. In severe cases, cerebral palsy, blindness, aphasia, and mental retardation may occur. In particularly serious cases, the baby may die of respiratory failure.

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The baby's face is red and his head is sweating, it may be because he is covered too much

Hu Wenmiao reminded that when traveling with children, do not wrap the child too thickly and do not cover the child's head with a quilt. The mouth and nose must be exposed, otherwise it will affect the breathing.

How thick should you wrap your child to be considered appropriate? Hu Wenmiao said that the test standard is that the child's hands are warm, but some parents wrap their children too much, the children sweat a lot, and their limbs become cold. Therefore, at this time, parents cannot just look at the child's limbs, but must touch the child's back, and the standard is that the child's back does not sweat.

If your baby's face is red, his head is sweating, his palms are hot and sweaty, he is irritable and crying, his breathing is rapid, and his body temperature is above 37.5℃, after excluding any disease, you should consider whether the child is dressed or covered too much.

Once "infant heat syndrome" occurs, parents should immediately unbutton their children's clothes, wipe off sweat, and wrap them less. Avoid using antipyretics to reduce fever, so as to avoid dehydration caused by excessive sweating. If a child is found to have difficulty breathing or cyanosis of the lips due to heat, he or she should be sent to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible.

Comprehensive sources: Xinhuanet, Dahe Daily, Qilu Evening News, etc.