For children, make the bathroom steamy and sit with them in the steamy room for 5 minutes. Use extra pillows at night. Breathing is painful or you are short of breath. Y ou have a high temperature with your cough and it continues more than 5 days. You cough up mucus with blood in it that is more than just a streak.
Fever is the body s natural reaction to fighting infection.
Aspirin or paracetamol will lower a raised temperature. Paracetamol in suspension is a useful way of reducing a child s high temperature but always use the correct dose. What to do yourself Drink lots. If you have a fever you will lose a lot of fluid which you must replace. Avoid alcohol as this will make the fluid loss worse.