Health Tip: Ease Your Child's Flu Symptoms

(HealthDay News) -- When a child gets the flu, it usually doesn't require professional medical treatment, but the illness can make your child very uncomfortable.

Here are suggestions on how to ease the flu's misery, courtesy of the Nemours Foundation:

  • Make sure your child drinks plenty of liquids. To encourage her to drink, offer her frozen fruit drinks prepared in a blender, popsicles or ice chips. Soft fruits, like melon, also will help her replenish fluids.
  • Offer her books, music or a movie to encourage her to lie still and stay in bed.
  • If she complains of soreness or muscle aches, give her acetaminophen or ibuprofen, but never aspirin.
  • Dress her comfortably in layers that can easily be added or removed as her condition makes her feel hot or cold.

    • Date Published: 2/28/2024 4:38:34 AM

    Related Articles

    Search Allergy Articles

    FDA Warns Top National Bakery to Stop Listing Allergens in Products When They Aren't There

    Wildfire Smoke Is Choking America's Cities -- Is Yours on the List?

    FDA Approves First Nasal Spray to Curb Anaphylaxis, An Alternative to Injections

    Allergies Have You Stuffed Up? Nose Fungi May Be to Blame

    Check Your Pantry, Lay's Classic Potato Chips Recalled Due to Milk Allergy Risk

    1 in 6 U.S. Adults With Asthma Can't Afford Meds

    Certain Pollens Worse for Triggering Asthma Attacks

    ER Visits for Burns, Eye Issues Rose 8-Fold During Recent L.A. Fires

    Air Pollution Could Be Changing Children's Brains

    Wildfires in Western U.S., Canada Create Hazardous Air Conditions

    Blood Test May Help Predict How Long Immunity Lasts

    Patient Hospitalized in Louisiana With First U.S. Case of Severe Bird Flu

    Bird Flu Virus Stays Active on Cow Milking Equipment for at Least One Hour

    First U.S. Death From Bird Flu Reported in Louisiana

    Flu Cases Start to Surge as Americans Prepare for Holiday Gatherings