What is the antipyretic injection

Fever is a disease phenomenon that makes patients very uncomfortable, because when fever symptoms appear, the patient's body temperature will rise significantly, and the patient will also feel heavy-headed and dizzy. At the same time, most patients with fever are also drowsy, which seriously affects their normal work and study status. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the fever in time to restore the body to its previous level. Antipyretic injection is a very fast-acting antipyretic medicine. What are the main ingredients in the antipyretic injection?

What is the antipyretic injection?

The most commonly used antipyretic injections are compound aminababarbital, aminopyrine or acetaminophen injection. Antipyretics are usually injected intramuscularly because it is convenient and does not require intravenous puncture. Common injection sites are the upper limbs and buttocks with thick muscles.

How to reduce fever in children

First of all, antipyretics cannot prevent febrile convulsions and cannot be used preventively. Therefore, it is not recommended to actively give children antipyretics when their temperature is above 38.5 degrees.

Second, the purpose of reducing fever is to improve the child's comfort. When the child's temperature exceeds 38.5 degrees, but he is still in very good spirits and has no symptoms of discomfort, there is no need to use antipyretics; when the child's temperature has not reached 38.5 degrees, but he is in poor spirits and has fatigue, pain and other discomforts, he can be given antipyretics in time; when taking antipyretics does not improve the child's discomfort, you should consider using other drugs. You should not take antipyretics just for the sake of reducing fever.

Third, when a child’s temperature rises and causes parents to become overly anxious, this should also be considered as a factor in the use of antipyretics.

Fourth, physical cooling (warm water baths, ice compresses, alcohol body rubs, etc.) is no longer recommended. Although warm water baths can help lower body temperature, they will increase the child's discomfort, so it is best not to use them; ice compresses cannot reduce body temperature, and may cause new discomforts such as chills, goose bumps, crying, etc., so they are not recommended; alcohol baths have many problems and are not recommended.

Fifth, children with fever should not be left without clothes, nor should they be left with too many clothes.

Sixth, the severity of the disease cannot be judged by the level of fever and the duration of fever. It is also impossible to judge the severity of the disease based on the speed and degree of temperature drop after taking antipyretics. A comprehensive judgment should be made based on age, mental reaction, respiration, heart rate, blood pressure, capillary refill time and peripheral transcutaneous blood oxygen saturation, and the presence or absence of accompanying symptoms such as cough, vomiting, diarrhea, and rash.