Owing to weak immunity children catch a cold quicker and are longer ill. That the child pleased you with good health, it is worth taking certain measures of prevention of a SARS at children.
What people got used to call cold in medical language is called as a SARS - an acute respiratory viral infection. Why respiratory? Because most often inflammatory process affects respiratory organs: nasopharynx, trachea, bronchial tubes, lungs.
The SARS is followed by low temperature rise (at most 38.4), a plentiful current from a nose or congestion, inflammation of tonsils, cough. If temperature higher than 38.4, is noted "ache" in bones and the strong fever - the speech can go about flu. Anyway it is necessary to call the doctor on the house and to observe medical recommendations. Frequent colds (more than 6 times in a year) speak about weak immunity and demand observance of measures of prevention.
Prevention of a SARS has to begin with full inspection of the child on presence of chronic diseases. Often chronic tonsillitis can be the cause of reduced immunity. In order to avoid further colds, it is recommended to do to the child of times a year sanitation of tonsils – irrigation of a throat by physical solution of the special syringe with the rounded-off nozzle.
After sanitation teach the child to observe correctly hygiene of an oral cavity and to rinse a mouth not less than 3 times a day after a meal. After treatment of chronic diseases of a nasopharynx it is necessary to start hardening.
Having adopted a habit to muffle up the child from grandmothers is warmer, parents forget that the heap of clothes will not protect the child from a SARS, and on the contrary, will weaken immunity. The more on the child of unnecessary clothes, rather a body begins to sweat cools down in the cool room quicker. Do not warm the child too, the body has to breathe. Hardening is just intended to improve thermal control of a body and to strengthen children's immunity.
For hardening get a needle rug (Lyapko or Kuznetsov's ipplikator), a soft massage rug and small leg baths (2-3 pieces). Every morning arrange to the child "walk" on "the road of health".
At first the child gets up for 2-3 minutes in a bath with hot water (39-40 degrees), then from cold (19-21 degrees), then carefully walks over a terry foot towel and goes on a massage rug. In conclusion it is necessary to execute walking on the place within 5 minutes on a needle rug.
Instead of water it is possible to use solid substances - sand and ice. For a hot foot bathtub it is necessary to heat sand a little. Hardening is impossible without morning exercises. Whenever possible, in warm weather you do exercises in the fresh air, and in cold - in previously aired room.
Hardening will be the most effective measure of prevention of a SARS if to combine it with healthy nutrition. The diet of the child has to be enriched with all necessary vitamins and minerals. Once a week at a diet there has to be a meat of fishes, the rich fat an omega acids (a lamprey, a halibut, a mackerel, a tuna, sardines). Vegetables and fruit – every day.
Organize houses the mini phytobar, making the child useful grass broths. As prevention of a SARS in traditional medicine use broths from hips, flowers of a linden, a thyme, roots of a burdock and chicory. Home-made cranberry and raspberry drinks strengthen immunity.