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Can a cold and fever be cooled with an ice pack

BY Iris Wheatley 2020-06-21

  As the summer heat waves arrive, the fever patients in the hospital are overcrowded. In fact, it is all caused by air conditioning disease. For patients with fever, there is a point of view, that is, if they encounter a fever, they are afraid that people will be burned out. It is necessary for the doctor to give the fever away quickly, or even use their own ice pack to cool down in advance.

   Of course, most doctors will do the same, because the medical (Western medicine) textbooks all over the world say so, using physical cooling-ice packs, ice blankets, alcohol wipe bath. So, can I use an ice pack to cool down when I have a fever?

  A 16-year-old boy came with a high fever and was diagnosed with a cold. The body temperature was 39.6°C. Other doctors gave ice packs to cool down and reduce inflammation. When I was looking at the patient, the patient covered two quilts, with an ice pack under his arm, and the whole body was trembling (fear of cold). Soon the patient began to have a headache.

   After I saw it, I sighed helplessly. Ask the family to remove the ice pack. The family said: "He has a high fever now, he can''t go, and it will burn out when he goes." "The child is covered with a quilt, indicating that you are afraid of the cold. Do you give the child ice cubes? Isn’t it cold? If you have a fever, your body is cold because the sweat pores, a large body temperature excretion system, cannot sweat or sweat normally. The pores are blocked because of the cold, and the body temperature can''t be discharged. Isn''t it strange that it is not high?

  The body''s fever is to remove the cold, so keep the body temperature constant, you look at the child Are you afraid of the cold and covered with a quilt, you can give some cold ice cubes? Can you lower the fever? If you haven''t, the cold will increase after the ice cubes, and the heat will not be discharged. This will not cause irritability and headaches. If you hurt the body''s yang, the child will not have the energy to perspiration. In the future, the child will also be indecisive in doing things, lack of energy and lack of energy. Immediately give me warm water! Let the child sweat!"

  After half an hour, sweating, burning back, not bored, kicked away. Although this is contrary to the treatment schemes in medical textbooks all over the world, I think the textbook is definitely wrong, so that no one asked questions during the mission, according to this propaganda, and the whole country uses ice packs to cool down (for current medical Challenge, hope to criticize).

  My patients usually give ice packs or other physical cooling because of trauma, appendicitis, peritonitis, etc. In addition to symptomatic treatment. Normal colds don''t need ice packs to cool down, the patient will be uncomfortable and the disease is not easy. Instead, warm water and ginger soup can solve big problems.

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