With the advent of the kid, in the head of parents a large number of questions appears. The most concerning from them how to make so that the child was ill less? Our subject – strengthening of immunity of the child.
You gave birth to the kid. You, of course, as the most careful and loving parents you want him to grow up strong and healthy. And for this purpose, as you for certain know, it is necessary to strengthen the immune system of the kid.
What is immunity? It simply saying a barrier from any harmful effects which each person has. And here is how time that this barrier was steady and impenetrable it is necessary to strengthen it.
One of ways of strengthening is hardening. According to physicians, hardening is possible and it is necessary to begin practically with the birth of the kid, of course, provided that the newborn's organism in a full order.
It is necessary to begin with simple and daily procedures – bathing and walks in the fresh air at all seasons of the year. It is possible to bathe every day. It is possible to lower just gradually the comfortable water temperature of 37-38 degrees or to take a contrast shower. Is written and told about it very much. I think, even that it is a subject for separate article.
Of course, you should not walk the child in the winter at strong wind and low temperature, but here everything depends on age. The kid is more senior, the below there can be temperature on the street. For example, to the newborn baby who is not a month old any more at-5 it will be uncomfortable.
In the summer on the street try to be as often as possible longer. It is necessary to air surely the room, it is desirable to make a draft provided that there is no child in the room.
One more way of hardening of the child are air bathtubs. The next time when you awake to change clothes of the kid, just leave it naked. For a start also several minutes will be enough, and then procedure time is gradually increased, bringing to 15. To the child it has to be comfortable, he should not cry at all, it means that to it it is cold, and he tries to be warmed.
The most important when hardening is to watch a condition of your child as he eats, sleeps and puts on weight. Procedures of hardening need to be stopped if you noticed that:
- the child had temperature or other symptoms of cold;
- the child ceased to stay in weight;
- the child began to sleep restlessly.
And the main thing, hardening has to give to the kid pleasure, it is not necessary to be zealous if he resists.