The river belongs to natural reservoirs in which children are not recommended to bathe up to three years. However, if you are confident in purity of water, and the child at the same time is healthy, it is possible to begin familiarizing with water entertainments earlier
What natural reservoirs are dangerous to small children by
Pediatricians do not recommend to bathe children up to three years in natural reservoirs to which the rivers and lakes belong. Reservoirs with still water in which many people bathe are especially dangerous - it is the real nurseries of infections. In appearance water can seem crystal-clear, but it does not mean that in it there does not live colibacillus or dozen other causative agents of diseases. By it the natural reservoir is also dangerous, the child up to three years has very weak immunity and cannot resist to infections as well as the adult. Besides the small child will not manage to explain that water cannot be drunk, he for certain will want to taste it.
If you nevertheless want to acquaint the kid with water entertainments, register better to the pool. Here water undergoes the procedure of disinfecting. Even if the child will drink it, nothing terrible threatens him. Rather safe it is also possible to consider bathing in the sea or the ocean – in salty water the majority of parasites simply perishes and water never stands. However here the kid is trapped by other danger – waves and a strong current. You do not depart from the child for a minute and you do not come with him deeply.
When the child can begin to swim in the river
Of course, not all parents follow the recommendations of the pediatrician and do not let children to swim in the river until they are three years old. Really, if you all family in warm summer day came out to the river bank, somehow it is even a pity not to expiate the child. If clear water, does not blossom, and nearby there are not enough people, it is possible to try to expiate even the baby. The main thing that the child at the same time was absolutely healthy. You should not bathe the child if shortly before it did him some vaccination if it has a cold or rash. It is worth refusing bathing and in case at the kid teeth are cut – during this period its organism is especially weak. You do not hurry to teach the child to swim, for the first bathing it is enough to kid to popleskatsya at the coast several minutes. Even in the hottest day children in water quickly overcool therefore do not allow to play to them to blue in the face. Having pulled out the kid from water, rub off him a towel and dress heat. Remember that water reflects sunshine, and gentle skin of the baby can quickly burn down therefore before an exit to the river smear the child with protective cream. Consider that pretty children do not feel danger yet and are not afraid to come deeply. Considering it when the child swims in the river, do not lower from him eyes. In addition it is possible to secure the child by means of a life jacket or oversleeves, with them to children will even be more cheerful.