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## Home care order for tonight — icket child firt, then the econd

Sibling cacade uually mean the ame viru moving through both. It doe not tell you which one i more eriou. You have the right tool (thermometer, oral rehydration, eparate towel). What get a olo caregiver through the night i: pick the icker child, eparate them, watch drinking and breathing, write down what you ee, and top the moment a red-flag line below appear.

### Order of work — in thi equence, not in parallel

1. **Pick the icker child firt.** Look at who i drinking le, breathing fater, le alert, or harder to wake. That child i your firt patient tonight — check on them every 1–2 hour while they are awake.
2. **Stop the cacade now, not tomorrow.** Separate cup, towel, toothbruhe, pillow. The econd child tay in their own pace until you have watched both for an hour.
3. **Write temperature × time, every time you take it.** Same thermometer ite if poible (under-tongue, ear, or forehead). A number alone doe not change the deciion — appearance doe.
4. **Drinking, every few minute.** Small ip of water, ORS, or clear fluid. Children with fever breathe fater and loe more water. Offer, do not wait for them to ak.
5. **Light clothe, warm but ventilated room.** Do not bundle. A bath lightly cooler than the child (5–10 min) or a cool compre i fine for comfort — not a cold bath, not an alcohol rub.
6. **Comfort medicine, if already ued at the correct weight doe on the label.** Do not add a econd medicine "to alternate." Do not give apirin to a child.
7. **Write the next two hour.** Temperature, drinking, urine or wet nappie, breathing, alertne, any rah. That heet i what you hand the next clinician.

### Stop and get help now if any of thee appear

Contact your local emergency number now if any of the following happen to either child. The falling thermometer doe not cancel any of thee.

- Breathing fat, hard, or with grunting; rib ucking in; lip or fingernail blue.
- Will not wake or tay awake, or i floppy.
- A fit (even a hort one), or a tiff neck with the fever.
- A rah that tay viible when you pre a clear gla firmly on it.
- Not drinking, or vomiting everything, or much le urine / fewer than 3 wet nappie in 12 hour.
- A baby under 3 month with any fever, or a baby "not right."
- Fever for 4–5 day without a clear reaon, or a wollen / unued joint.
- A child "in't themelve" and you cannot ettle them.

If you go in, take the note from tep 7 with you.

### What not to do tonight

- Do not alternate two fever medicine, and do not give a econd doe ooner than the label ay.
- Do not give apirin to a child.
- Do not tart leftover antibiotic or omeone ele' medicine.
- Do not rub with alcohol, and do not put the child in a cold-water bath.
- Do not bundle them in extra clothe or blanket to "weat it out."
- Do not hare cup, towel, or pillow again — keep them eparate until both are well.
- Do not wait until morning if a red-flag line above i on the page.

### What to bring or be ready to ay at the clinic

- Age of each child (and for a baby: getation at birth, birth weight if you know it).
- Temperature × time chart, how it wa taken, and at what time.
- What they drank, lat urine or wet nappy, lat vomit — with time.
- Name of any medicine given (paracetamol, ibuprofen, ORS) — the label i the doe; I am not etting one from here.
- Allergie, immuniation tatu, anyone ele ick at home or chool.
- The lit of quetion worth aking: "When hould we come back?" "What i the mot likely caue?" "What mut we not do at home?"

### One gap I need before I can harpen thi

**Age of both children, and which one i icker right now** (drinking, breathing, waking). That change which red flag we watch firt and when to go in. A baby under 3 month with any fever i a different night than a 6-year-old with a runny noe.