What circumstances need to do a lumbar puncture in children with fever checks?

When you infantile fever due to certain diseases, diagnosis, and sometimes need to do a lumbar puncture to check. So what should do this check, do such a check on whether children are at risk or adverse reaction? to you briefly talk about these issues here.

Due to fever seen in various diseases in children, so whether the need to do a lumbar puncture to check, and should be judged by the symptoms of fever. Typically when children with fever and meningeal irritation when when a fever and convulsions, or coma; fever and anterior Fontanelle in infants full time; and cry baby fever and screaming or eyes when daze, are considering lumbar puncture to check. Its purpose is through changes of cerebrospinal fluid, clinical symptoms, signs, diagnosis in a timely manner. Especially confirmed there is no central nervous system infection there.

Many parents mentioning \"lumbar puncture\" is fear, which is the \"spinal cord\", for children with physical damage evident, in fact, this is totally misunderstood. Lumbar puncture to check is a diagnostic puncture of Pediatric is very popular. Doctors will provide select safe parts between the lumbar puncture, and general inspection only need 1~2 ml of cerebrospinal fluid, definitely not cause any adverse effects to the child\'s body. Conversely, if children with fever caused by central nervous system infection, you may need to quickly establish the diagnosis, to pursue treatment. And observation of lumbar puncture to check changes of cerebrospinal fluid is one of the important diagnosis, so must not be delayed because of fear of check.

Of course, if children with fever with obvious when elevated intracranial pressure, lumbar puncture to check must be done very carefully, so as not to cause brain herniation. In addition, parents should also be aware of when children finish the inspection, should remove pillow, supine 2-4 hours.