Young parents in relation to the health of their child are divided into two categories: some are shaking for their child and call an ambulance with each "sneeze", others, frivolous, mothers and fathers are in no hurry to see a doctor, hoping for advice from the Internet and folk remedies . Both are wrong. There are significant signs of the disease, indicating that it is time to call an ambulance, and each parent must know them.
Fainting
The loss of consciousness in a child looks intimidating. The baby does not respond to the mother’s voice, his breathing is quickened. In this case, immediately call an ambulance.
The cause of fainting may be a strong emotional shock caused by excitement or fear. Being in a stuffy room for a long time, the child may lose consciousness. Fainting can be caused by an elementary hunger of a child. There are more serious causes: heart rhythm disturbances, vegetovascular diseases, blood loss, infectious diseases. Fainting is often an indication of diabetes, epilepsy, and concussion.
Parents should seriously treat the after-fainting state of their children, be sure to conduct an examination in a children's clinic.
Fading
Fading is a very serious symptom of epilepsy. In the view of many, this disease is associated with repeated seizures, when a person beats in convulsions, foam appears from the mouth. But this disease can manifest itself in another way. A child may have a non-convulsive seizure. It seems to be turning off from reality: it suddenly freezes, looks with an absent gaze, and his eyelids tremble. Some children close their eyes during an attack, throw their heads back. After 20-30 seconds, they return to their normal state, as if nothing had happened to them.
Some adults do not consider it necessary to call a doctor when they fade, because the attack quickly passes and the child seems healthy. But everyone needs to know that fading is an alarming symptom that indicates a serious illness.
Partial cramps
Partial convulsions indicate childhood epilepsy. They can appear in a mild form when the child’s consciousness is preserved, and in a complex, accompanied by inappropriate behavior and clouded consciousness. The unusual behavior is manifested in the fact that the child endlessly repeats the same movement or word, walks in a circle. These are symptoms of impending loss of consciousness. After the child comes to his senses, he cannot remember what happened to him.
How to distinguish the simple and complex form of partial seizures? Try to ask your child to perform the simplest action - raise your hand, sit down or stand up. If he responds to your request, then this is a simple form, if he doesn’t hear anything, it’s complicated.
You can not take lightly any manifestations of partial seizures. These are messengers of a serious illness, and the sooner you turn to medical specialists, the sooner treatment will begin.
Sudden weight loss
It often happens that a plump, full-bodied preschooler turns into a lanky thin teenager. This is quite natural. But sometimes the striking thinness of the child, a sharp weight loss indicates that not everything is in order with his health.
Weight loss indicates serious illnesses such as
- acute infectious diseases;
- diabetes;
- bronchial asthma;
- gastrointestinal diseases;
- chronic infections;
- emotional upheaval;
- helminthic invasion, etc.
If you notice that your child is losing weight in front of your eyes, immediately contact your pediatrician, who will schedule an examination. It is important to identify the disease in the early stages in order to start a fight with it.
Fever, vomiting, headache
An increase in temperature, accompanied by severe headaches and vomiting, is an alarming signal for parents. These symptoms can trigger a strong emotional shock, i.e. physiological factor, but most often they indicate the onset of a serious illness of the child. High fever, vomiting, pain in the head are indicators of a viral or infectious disease, diseases of the brain.
What diseases causes a sharp increase in temperature, vomiting and severe headache? These are signs that your child has one of the following diseases:
- Pyelonephritis. The temperature jumps sharply to 39 °, the child becomes weak, lethargic, complains of a headache and difficult painful urination.
- Appendicitis. Low-grade fever (37-37.5 °), severe vomiting, pain in the lower right abdomen. Try to bend the child's knees, and then straighten them - the pain will intensify. Call an ambulance immediately, without waiting for peritonitis.
- Meningitis. A very dangerous infectious disease that affects the brain. Signs: fever, unbearable headache, pain in muscles and joints, vomiting.
- Intestinal infection. It can go away without a fever, but the danger is that dehydration occurs due to uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhea, which can lead to loss of consciousness.
- Furunculosis - purulent inflammation on the skin, in an advanced stage leads to high fever, vomiting, headaches.
- Concussion. It occurs after severe head injuries, which teenagers do not always report to their parents. If signs of vomiting, headaches and fever appear, you need to ask the child if he has a head injury.
- Malignant and benign neoplasms.
There are many symptoms of serious illness in a child. Parents should remember that they are responsible for the health of their child, do not have the right to take his condition lightly. We indicated only a few signs when you need to call an ambulance and call a doctor. It is better to repay the disease in the initial stages, to prevent it from dragging on for a long time.
