my son has a fever and a cold with cough. i thought he was getting better but his fever is bak up to 102. his cough has loosen some but he says his stomach is hurting to . i cant tell if its cause of the mucus draining into his stomach making him sick or if its a stomach bug. hes had this for 2 days now. i dont have any money ot take him to a doctor much less buy him a prescription. ive bought him some gatorade and chicken noodle soup and he did ok yesterday. do you have any suggestions?
2007-02-02 00:11:19 · 8 answers · asked by pkuchick 4 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
During my rotations in the ER for my Medic training this is what the pediatrician said (it was during flu season).... if you can't break the fever... (and you can check with the pharmacist on this) it is children's Tylenol, 2hrs later children's Motrin, 2hrs later Tylenol, 2hrs later Motrin..... the food thing... if the kid wants to eat, let him/her eat, but no dairy products... they will spoil in their belly when they have a fever. Go to the pharmacy and tell them them deal, or call the ER and ask to speak to a nurse for advice... both of those are free... if the kid isn't throwing up a ton, it's probably the mucous... plenty of fluids, a cracker here or there with the meds... good luck.. sick kids are the worst!!
2007-02-02 02:00:32 · answer #1 · answered by brookeems 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your version of the proverb is the traditional one, but you can find citations in the literature that have it the other way around. The idea, if not the exact wording, dates back to 1574, when a dictionary maker named Withals wrote, "Fasting is a great remedie of feuer."
You're thinking: this guy wrote a dictionarie? His medical advice wasn't so hot either. Doctors have been trying to stamp out the above piece of folklore for years. Current medical thinking is that you want to keep an even strain when you're sick with either a cold or a fever, and you certainly don't want to stress your system by stuffing or starving yourself.
Nobody's sure where the notion of feeding colds and so on arose. (It surely didn't originate with Withals.) One somewhat dubious explanation has it that the proverb really means "If you feed a cold now, you'll have to starve a fever later." A more plausible interpretation is that the feed-a-cold idea arose out of a folk understanding of the disease process, namely that there were two kinds of illnesses, those caused by low temperatures (colds and chills) and those caused by high temperatures (fever). If you had a chill, you wanted to stoke the interior fires, so you pigged. If you had a fever, you didn't want things to overheat, so you slacked off on the fuel.
2007-02-02 00:18:37 · answer #2 · answered by Baw 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-12-03 08:46:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only in the cartoons. Basically it sounds like he may have a flu. That's serious business and you may have to call the pros for this one. A fever is how Helen Keller went blind and deaf.
2007-02-03 22:43:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have not mentioned the age of your son, even than I will tell you. He is having 2 problems together One is, he might be having flu and confirm it, if he has headache and body-ache. For this nothing much can be done. You can give him Paracetamol 6 hrly. It will go itself within 7 days, may be less. 2. He is having infection of amoeba in his gut(Stomach). Give him Metranidazole 400 mg twice daily if he is more than 10 yrs of age.
2007-02-02 00:21:10 · answer #5 · answered by Dr. Arun 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There should be clicnics in your area where you won't pay a lot and it is based on your income. It is NOT the Healt Department.
And they even prescribe medicines.
Also have you gone to Walgreens, CVS, etc and spoken to their pharamcists? You could get inexpensive medications.
2007-02-02 00:17:53 · answer #6 · answered by Goofita 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the reason why you feel cold when you have a fever is because your inmeunet system is working t cool down the temperature that is feedback +.
2007-02-02 00:20:07 · answer #7 · answered by RED ROSE 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is starve a cold feed a fever,,,,but that is an old wives tale...
just keep pumping fluid in him,,,,
2007-02-02 00:19:34 · answer #8 · answered by cmhurley64 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋