The sensitivity of children and their development requires special care, dedication and continuous monitoring, especially when it comes to health. There are a large number of very common questions that parents ask doctors. We answered such – frequently asked questions, but also very important ones such as vaccination, epidemics and malignant diseases, in the last episode of the Hastor Foundation Podcast.
Doctor of Medicine and Hastor Foundation alumni Aida Ribić answers how parents should behave when a child has an elevated body temperature. With us, there is a fear of elevated body temperature, but our guest explains:
An elevated body temperature is a good thing. An elevated body temperature is a defense mechanism against an infection, whether it is from a virus – which is the cause of an elevated body temperature in most cases – or from a bacterial infection. What is always important is that, when parents measure an elevated body temperature, they give something to lower it before they leave the house, and only then take them to a doctor for an examination.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the fight against the measles epidemic has been going on for months. We asked our doctor what symptoms indicate that a child has measles:
Increased body temperature, which is high, up to 40, which occurs 4-5 days before the appearance of the rash itself, redness of the eyes, changes in the mucous membrane of the oral cavity and cough. All this precedes the rash. On day 4-5 of body temperature, a rash appears which, as a rule, starts on the neck and behind the earlobes, or on the face, at the junction of the hair and forehead and then spreads. As long as the rash is breaking out, the child has a high body temperature and that is a typical clinical picture.
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