Fever or symptoms of heat it can stand alone or part of a collection of symptoms a disease. Fever is an important sign to note, because in the beginning is often not or the cause is unknown, and dangerous or not.
If we are a fever, you should measure the temperature in the underarm thermometer four times a day every 4 to 5 hours. This temperature is recorded because it will be useful to show the doctor. He is later to check could get the impression of illness ups and downs of body temperature. For example the temperature of typhus fever at 3 to 4 days only ride the first night; morning heat loss. For typhoid fever is almost always begins with the temperature not too high in the early days. So, if the first day's body temperature was about 39 to 400 with a shiver, almost certainly was not typhoid. New typhoid fever was suspected when running 4 to 5 days or more.
Conversely, fever is on the first day was suddenly high, usually caused by viral diseases, such as influenza or dengue fever. Of course there are many other infectious diseases like typhoid temperature patterns or viral infections, but in Indonesia it can be said 90% of sudden high fever caused by a virus. Because it had suffered a fever for more than 2 to 3 days a doctor should be consulted as necessary to determine the cause. In our country, one of the most feared causes dengue fever is, the more pronounced in the rainy season.
What to do if your family member had a fever? First, he must rest. Covered with a thick blanket just is not justified. Hot air instead of the body can not evaporate so that the temperature will be added up. The kids can even seizures (stuip). The cold is because your body temperature rising abruptly.
The best action is to wipe the whole body of patients with wet cloth continuously for 5 to 7 minutes. With a yawn of water from the skin, the body will also be cooled so that usually in that time period the body temperature has dropped. Not good use of alcohol for this purpose because the alcohol will be absorbed through the skin. Do compress only the head is also not effective because the contact surface is too small. But the patient must be given to drink a lot to go cool his body.