Overheating baby on a walk. Causes of overheating. What to do when a child overheats in the sun?

Thermoregulation of the newborn

The baby is in the warm and dark space of the uterus for all nine months of pregnancy, and he does not need to maintain body temperature, his mother does it for him. But when the baby is born into the world, it enters a different world - from a warm uterus and moist amniotic fluid it is born into the air environment, now the baby needs to independently maintain body temperature. The system of thermoregulation is engaged in this in the body - it produces or consumes energy to maintain a constant body temperature, to prevent both freezing and overheating. However, in a child, due to his age, thermoregulation is still weak. For this, it is necessary to create special conditions for care at birth and in its first months of life. What about the thermoregulation it is necessary for parents to know how to properly care for the baby, how not to overcool and overheat the baby? Let's figure it out.

How the system works

Thermoregulation works quite simply - when freezing, the mechanism of splitting fat and carbohydrates is activated. as a result of which energy and heat are generated, if the child is very cold, the mechanisms of muscle tremors are connected, allowing them to warm up faster, but if the body temperature rises, the blood usually flows to the skin, the skin vessels expand and an excess of heat passes through the skin into the atmosphere. It helps cool the body and sweat faster - wet skin cools faster according to the law of physics. Due to this mechanism, the body independently maintains a constant body temperature without sudden fluctuations in it when undressing or changing environmental conditions.

However, everything is so simple for the baby - his mechanisms of maintaining heat and constant body temperature are not yet perfect, he can either quickly cool down in cold weather conditions or quickly overheat even seemingly under normal conditions if he is too warmly dressed. And if all relatives take care of the exclusion of hypothermia, putting on two or three caps even in warm weather, then this is a real opportunity to overheat the child and harm caring mothers and especially grandmothers.

  Than bad undercooling and overheating

Overheating and hypothermia will be badly reflected on the baby. When freezing, the baby cannot adequately maintain body temperature for a long time and cools. Due to cooling, protective barriers on the mucous membranes of the nose and in the mouth, in the intestines and in the zone of the lungs decrease — activation of the microbes that the child always has in the body can lead to inflammation — runny nose, pneumonia, and flu. If the body cools below 34 degrees, this will generally lead to critical metabolic disorders until the death of the baby. However, most children still will never recognize cooling - parents swaddle them in beautiful diapers, put on cozy suits.

But overheating for the peanut with caring parents and restless grandmothers is very possible. Moreover, overheating occurs quite quickly and very quietly, and parents often do not notice the first signs, very surprised at the consequences. If freezing, the baby may burst into tears and warm up due to the activity of movements, then when it overheats, it cannot relieve itself in any way. Overheating is dangerous because the defenses of the body are undermined, the child’s immune system reduces resistance to infections. Parents are surprised - “we dress warmly, we don’t go barefoot, but we are sick every month!” From overheating and entanglement, he is sick. The body must train, adapt to temperature extremes, and with constant greenhouse maintenance in the conditions of three blouses, the immunity simply turns off. In addition, as we said above, a wet body freezes faster, a confused and always sweating child, even from a light breeze, cools and falls ill very quickly.

In addition, overheated children often have skin problems - dermatitis, prickly heat, infections and allergies, they lag behind in development due to insufficient stimulation of the skin with tactile and airborne irritants - they are always in clothes, their skin does not receive new sensations from space and air . In addition, because of the clothes, these children receive less than their portion of ultraviolet and vitamin D, which will lead to rickets.

  What parents need to know

The temperature control system of the little one is very imperfect, and matures in the first years of the baby's life, it is important for parents to teach him to quickly and correctly adapt to changing weather conditions and temperature fluctuations. This will help the thermoregulation system to set up its work and continue to function correctly. You need to start training from the very first minutes of life. However, in order to properly train thermoregulation, it is necessary to know the signs of overheating and freezing, overcooling a child, and, based on this knowledge, it is right to organize care for the baby.

First of all, in order to prevent violations of thermoregulation, it is necessary to maintain an optimal temperature balance in the nursery. in the first month this temperature is on average 24-25 ° C, but gradually the temperature in the nursery decreases - the optimum temperature for sleep is 18-20 degrees, during the day you can allow the temperature to be warmer around 20-22 ° C. With this temperature regime, the baby will be comfortable sleeping and awake. But, you must remember that the temperature in the nursery depends on what the child is wearing.

At home, don’t need to wear caps and hats, wear more than one suit and swaddle baby. The amount of his clothes should be approximately equal to yours. If you put on two baby's undershirts and also swaddle, putting on a hat, it will overheat at 20 degrees.

Signs of overheating and freezing

When overheated, the baby begins to abandon his chest, get nervous and worried, he blushes, screams and becomes hot and wet. With such bouts of overheating, his temperature can jump to 38 ° C and even higher. If overheating is not eliminated and the parents ignore the signals of the child, he falls into a state of deep painful sleep and sleeps for a long time - this condition is called protective inhibition of the brain with its protection from overheating and impaired functions.
  At the very first symptoms, signs of overheating, it is necessary to unroll the baby completely, if it is a baby, put it on the chest, covering it with a light diaper, if it is artificial, give it some water. After half an hour, the child needs to measure the temperature and if it is elevated, it is worth calling a doctor, the baby is seriously overheated.

When hypothermia, the children turn pale sharply, there is a blue around the mouth, the kids worry, bang with arms and legs, sobbing heart-rendingly. But cold hands and feet alone cannot be a reliable sign of hypothermia - due to the peculiarities of vascular tone and blood circulation, they are always cool in the child, along with the tip of the nose. At the first signs of freezing, the baby must be applied to the chest, warm with the heat of his body, dressed in dry clothes, if he is sweating and because of this he has frozen.

But how can one determine on the street whether a baby is dressed easily, if a cool nose and pens are not a sign of freezing. In fact, everything is simple - put your hand on the back of the head or the back of the neck, its temperature can easily determine whether the child is comfortable. If the back of your head is wet and hot - you overdid it with clothes and the baby is overheated, put it on lightly. If the nape is cool - put on an extra blouse or cover the baby with a blanket. In the optimal condition, the nape of normal temperature and dry.

In order for the children to easily tolerate any temperature difference, not overheat and not freeze, it is necessary to follow several simple recommendations for caring for the baby. Then your baby will be hardened and will feel good in severe frosts and summer heat.

Firstly, at a room temperature above + 18 ° C, the baby does not need a hat, mittens on the arms and socks on the legs - the skin of the body must breathe, and the arms and legs - active reflexogenic zones, they need to actively contact with air. If the little one freezes slightly, cover it with a flannel diaper.

Secondly, if you need to go for a walk, wear as many clothes on the baby as they are dressed for yourself. The child sweats and freezes just like you do, there is no need to wear clothes on him anymore - his tala temperature is maintained just like you have around 36.5-36.8 ° С. Most of all, mothers and grandmothers are afraid to catch the baby’s ears, considering them very weak - but if you put them in five hats since childhood, they will be like that, and if the baby’s head is perceived as your own head, there will be no problems with the health of the ears , they are quite adaptable to temperature changes and air movement. At temperatures above 20 ° C, there is no need for even the thinnest cap or hat, in order to protect from the head of the sun's rays you need to buy him a cap, a panama hat, a scarf, but you should not close your ears with it. If the weather is windy, it is better to put a hood on your head and put on light hats so that the head does not sweat - overheating of the head is no less dangerous than overheating of the whole body.

Thirdly, it is necessary to stimulate the thermoregulation mechanism of the crumbs by the hardening procedure. You need to visit the pools, dousing the child after bathing with cold water, running barefoot on the floor and naked. In order not to be afraid of wet or frozen feet, teach your baby to walk on a wet towel that has been wetted in cool water. This trains the mechanisms of warming the feet and provides protection against freezing of the limbs.

Fourth, and this is very important - go with your children for a walk in any weather, in the heat (but not in the open sun), in winter, in frost, at least not for long. The body needs to be able to rebuild body temperatures and produce heat in accordance with changing conditions - this way the baby will be strong and hardened, and will respond less to temperature changes by overheating or hypothermia.

Of course, the baby is born with an incompletely formed system of thermoregulation, but as the child grows, it is formed and improved. Therefore, in the hands of the parents, the child’s health and well-being, as they teach the child’s body to respond to ambient temperature, this program will continue to be implemented.

How to determine that a child is overheated in the sun? How to help him with seemingly ordinary means? What to do in such a situation? These questions interest a huge number of parents. To find out the answers to them, you just have to read the article to the end.

Overheating in the sun in a child: symptoms

Overheating in the sun is extremely dangerous for any person. Great harm from overheating in the sun can get small children. In order to prevent such an unpleasant situation, parents of children need to adhere to some important rules.

Overheating is especially dangerous for children under the age of 1 year. At this age, the baby is not fully adapted to the manifestations of the environment and the growing body of the baby does not always successfully cope with thermoregulation.

It is very important for parents to monitor the child and know the main symptoms of the problem in order to quickly and correctly distinguish it. If the parents found the following symptoms in their baby, they need to sound the alarm, take appropriate measures and call an ambulance.

• body temperature above 38 degrees;
• worsening or lack of appetite;
• change in the usual skin tone;
• restless behavior;
• various rashes on the skin;
• drowsiness.

It is worth noting that in some children the symptoms appear in different ways. For example, if the baby is active most of the time, as a result of overheating, his behavior can radically change, and the baby will constantly sleep, not wanting to be interested in something or moving.

In rare cases, the baby will notice difficulty breathing. In the summer, leaving the whole family to ponds, it is extremely necessary to monitor the children.

Perhaps the vagaries of the child indicate his malaise and poor health of the baby. According to the recommendations of doctors, when observing such manifestations, adults should immediately call an ambulance. In such cases, it is important for parents to help the child in order to alleviate his condition.

Severity of overheating

Sunstroke - a dangerous condition that can cause great harm to the body, in severe cases, can lead to death. The main reason for this painful condition is direct sunlight on the human body. This manifestation is especially dangerous for newborn babies and children up to 1 year old. There are three degrees of this unpleasant condition:

Heat stroke is a condition that can be noticed in a person due to overheating of the body. Obtaining such a state is quite simple. To do this, it is enough to dress not in the weather or for a long time to be in a stuffy, unventilated room.

Parents, trying to warm the child, put on him a lot of warm clothes. In some cases, in children's rooms are heating appliances, their work bringing more harm than good.

In view of this, the baby may experience symptoms of overheating such as headache, fever, and drowsiness. It is worth noting that correcting the effects of hypothermia is much easier than eliminating the effects of overheating.

With the most severe degree of heat stroke, a person loses consciousness, his pulse becomes faster, sometimes hallucinations are present. In this condition, the victim must be immediately helped, since inaction a person may die.

What to do when the child overheats in the sun

Of course, the best way to protect your baby from this condition is prevention. However, if the parents did not succeed, the following measures should be taken.

First you need to determine the factor because of which the crumbs are overheated. Perhaps the scorching sun and high humidity on the street had a detrimental effect on the health of the child. It often happens that adults put too many things on the child and the baby overheats at a relatively warm air temperature.

In this case, it is urgent to transfer the victim to a cool place. Then you need to remove clothes from the child and ensure contact of the baby's skin with air. If there is a diaper, then it must be removed.

Also, the baby's head needs to be covered with a damp and cool cloth. Drinking will help deal with dehydration.

If the child has an increased body temperature, you need to give him antipyretic drugs. In any case, after overheating in the sun, the child needs careful care. For your own confidence and prevention, you can call a doctor.

What treatment is required when the child overheats in the sun

First aid certainly plays a very important role in salvation. Subsequent treatment will help the baby recover as soon as possible and gain strength. A child affected by sun exposure needs care and care from parents and, in some cases, doctors.

A full-fledged treatment is to eliminate the symptoms that prevent the baby from being happy and learning about the world. First of all, the child must be given antipyretic drugs.

Drinking plenty of water will help restore balance in the body.

Many doctors advise adding a little salt or sugar to the water in order to compensate for the trace elements lost during heavy sweating.

According to the recommendations of doctors, silence and coolness is necessary to recover a child from this acute painful condition. Wet diapers should help parents and children. If a child eats on his own, he needs to limit his diet and adhere to a special diet, temporarily without eating sweet and fatty foods.

The consequences of overheating in children

Overheating in the sun is very dangerous for children. Heat and sunstroke can cause many problems in a small body. It is worth saying that during overheating, a child often has cramps that can lead to such a dangerous pathology as epilepsy.

Overheating in the sun causes great harm to the baby’s nervous system. In addition, sunburn can appear on the body of the child due to overheating in the sun, scars and traces of which can remain for a long time.

Of course, many people in their childhood sometimes suffered from heat or sunstroke. However, with proper care and care from the older generation, the unpleasant consequences of this painful condition will bypass the child.

How to protect a child?

As mentioned above, the best defense is prevention.

If parents follow all safety precautions, especially in the hot summer time and don’t dress their baby too warmly, they will practically protect their child from many unpleasant problems.

To protect their baby from the harmful effects of sunlight, parents need to:

In any case, the golden mean in this matter will bear fruit and, keeping balance, parents will help maintain their child's health and good mood.

You can also learn how to prevent sunstroke in a child from the next video.

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