What to do if a fever occurs after receiving the measles vaccine
Nov 27, 2024
Source: Cainiu Health
Dr. Yang Ziqi
Introduction
A balanced diet can provide the body with energy and nutrients, enhance resistance, and help the body cope with fever reactions after vaccination. Light and easily digestible foods can reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract while meeting the body's nutritional needs, such as rice porridge, noodles, and vegetable soup. Avoid eating greasy, spicy, or irritating foods, such as fried chicken, chili peppers, and Sichuan peppercorns.
Generally speaking, the measles vaccine refers to the measles attenuated live vaccine. Fever after receiving the measles attenuated live vaccine can be managed through dietary adjustments, physical cooling, hydration, regulating clothing and environmental temperature, and medication. Details are as follows:
1. Dietary adjustment: A balanced diet can provide the body with energy and nutrients, enhance resistance, and help cope with fever following vaccination. Light and easily digestible foods can reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract while meeting the body's nutritional needs, such as rice porridge, noodles, and vegetable soup. Avoid greasy, spicy, and irritating foods such as fried chicken, chili peppers, and Sichuan peppercorns.
2. Hydration: Fever can cause significant fluid loss through the skin and respiration, leading to dehydration. Adequate hydration promotes metabolism, helps the body dissipate heat, and alleviates discomfort caused by fever.
3. Adjust clothing and environmental temperature: Appropriately reducing clothing and lowering the environmental temperature can help the body dissipate heat and reduce body temperature. If overdressed or in a high-temperature environment, body heat cannot be easily released, which may worsen fever symptoms. Wearing loose, breathable clothing and avoiding excessive perspiration is recommended.
4. Physical cooling: Physical cooling reduces body temperature by conducting heat away through conduction, convection, and evaporation. This method is safe and effective for low or moderate fever. A towel soaked in warm water at 32-34°C can be used to wipe the forehead, armpits, and groin areas. Each wiping session can last 10-15 minutes and may be repeated as needed.
5. Medication: If the fever is high or lasts for a prolonged period, obvious discomfort may occur. Medications such as paracetamol tablets, ibuprofen tablets, or diclofenac sodium sustained-release capsules may be taken under a doctor's guidance. These medications lower body temperature by adjusting the body's thermoregulatory center or inhibiting inflammatory responses.
After receiving the measles attenuated live vaccine, it is also important to maintain good lifestyle and dietary habits, enhance immunity, and promote overall health.
