jonas parker
23-05-2009, 10:26 PM
How to “break” a child’s fever without aspirin…
With thanks to the late Horace Stewart, BSME, MD.
This isn’t for infants, but for children five years old and up. If your child has a fever that is either extremely high or just won’t break, a trip to the doctor or hospital emergency room isn’t possible, and you don’t want to give the youngster aspirin for fear of Reye’s Syndrome, try this:
Place a waterproof rubber sheet on the bed to protect the mattress, soak a twin-size bed-sheet in hot water, wring it out thoroughly, then wrap the patient, sans night clothes, in the warm wet sheet and place him/her on the top of the bed. Don’t wrap the child in the waterproof sheet, it’s merely to protect the mattress. Because of evaporation, and the fact that water conducts heat far more efficiently than air, the fever should break within an hour while the child usually falls asleep.
Once the fever has broken, dry the child and put him/her in their “jammies”, remove the rubber sheet from the top of the bed and put the child back to bed.
With thanks to the late Horace Stewart, BSME, MD.
This isn’t for infants, but for children five years old and up. If your child has a fever that is either extremely high or just won’t break, a trip to the doctor or hospital emergency room isn’t possible, and you don’t want to give the youngster aspirin for fear of Reye’s Syndrome, try this:
Place a waterproof rubber sheet on the bed to protect the mattress, soak a twin-size bed-sheet in hot water, wring it out thoroughly, then wrap the patient, sans night clothes, in the warm wet sheet and place him/her on the top of the bed. Don’t wrap the child in the waterproof sheet, it’s merely to protect the mattress. Because of evaporation, and the fact that water conducts heat far more efficiently than air, the fever should break within an hour while the child usually falls asleep.
Once the fever has broken, dry the child and put him/her in their “jammies”, remove the rubber sheet from the top of the bed and put the child back to bed.