All children are more often or more rare, but have cold and flu. So far the kid at the most tender age, mothers and fathers are not ready to these misfortunes at all. The baby cannot even tell that she hurts it, and the stuffy nose prevents it to eat and sleep. What to do? To try to prevent developing of a disease.
If you have such opportunity, nurse the child. Try to support a lactation. Mother's milk – the miracle cure, the most tasty, pleasant and convenient medicine increasing immunity and providing the child with antibodies, especially if mom was unwell. Do not forget that when you caught a cold, it is not necessary to separate the child from a breast.
Shopping centers, public transport, hospitals and other places of a big congestion of people are rich with a variety of bacteria and viruses. Try not to be without special need there. And if it is very necessary to do some shopping, you steer clear of those who sneeze and cough, often and thoroughly wash hands after contact with door handles, hand-rail and money. It is better not to pull out the child from a carriage. So he will be at bigger distance from a possible source of a disease.
But "infection" can be knocked also at your door. It can be guests or relatives and also dad or the senior children. Probability to pick up something at school or at work is always high. Guests should explain that they cannot contact to the child, and it is better to come at all next time. Do not hesitate, it has to is a shame to be not to you, but them. And dad with the son or the daughter, you will not ask to come then. Here special masks (stock up with them in advance, anything happens) and data of contact with the kid to a possible minimum are used. Also be attentive to purity of hands and public objects. Patients have to have the ware.
Purity and fresh air in the room are necessary always and to each family member. But during a disease these requirements are especially relevant. Going outside, open windows and air the apartment.
Good folk remedy – garlic. Smells not really well, but frightens off not only fictional vampires, but also real wreckers of human health. Let's not list all enemies of garlic, the list this too long. Couple of cloves with hot borsch will be to the taste to parents, and for the kid make a necklace of garlic and hang up it over a bed. It is also possible to cut couple of teeth and to put on a saucer in the room where you usually spend time.
During a season of colds you will be helped also by timely hardening of the kid. Those whom parents muffle up and hide from any breeze are ill more often opened and barefoot. I do not urge you to take out in a frost the child on the street in one pampers, but it is better not to neglect recommendations of air temperature and quantity of layers of clothes. And if to break them, then undressing, but not putting on an excess jacket. Long walks and bathing in warmish water will make your kid by "tough nut".
Do not forget about good mood. A smile and laughter – fine weapon from all misfortunes. Correctly put on, become tempered, smile and God bless you!