Today many mothers face a problem of frequent diseases at the children. Children are especially subject to catarrhal, sharp respiratory and viral infections. What it is connected with and how to strengthen immunity at the child, we will discuss in detail in this article.
The congenital and acquired immunodeficiency
Immunity the child can have a congenital deficiency as a result of any pathologies, and can be acquired — the provoked thoughtless intervention.
Stimulation of the weakened immunity and negative consequences
Serious problems with health can become result of intervention in work of the immune system: diseases of joints, dissonances of nervous system, thyroid gland disease. Performance-enhancing drugs can provoke boomerang effect: the system will begin to see the enemy in own healthy cells that will lead to inflammatory processes in fabrics and even to their rejection.
Result of uncontrolled increase in immunity children can have such diseases as an autoimmune type of diabetes, arthritises of rheumatoid character, system red a wolf cub.
Important! It is impossible to take immunoperformance-enhancing drugs at any cold, it will lead to exhaustion of a system and its failure when protection is necessary.
Indications for the address to the immunologist
The following factors have to become a reason for concern and incentive motive for the address to the immunologist:
- Too frequent, more than six once a year, and a long tonsillitis, bronchitis and other catarrhal diseases.
- Cold, not connected with cold and not responding to usual treatment.
- Presence of group of symptoms of inherent SARS or ORZ, but not related (hypostases mucous nose, cough, eye pain).
- Allergy to food which is expressed in emergence in a mouth of wounds, throat hypostases, skin rash, vomiting and diarrhea.
- Fast fatigue and drowsiness.
- Unreasonable temperature increase of a body.
- Strong frustration in work of intestines (locks, diarrhea).
- Causeless skin rashes.
Whether you know? About deficiency of immunity in 1976 a feature film "Under a Cap" was shot. In it it is about the person forced to live in the sterile environment. The invented story, but the described TKID disease — the heavy combined immunodeficiency really, meets in one of 100000 cases.
The causes of frequent colds at the child
The immune system of the person begins to be formed in mother's womb therefore, the less often the pregnant woman is ill, the it is more than chances at the kid of strong immunity.
After the birth of the kid many mothers owing to inexperience begin it to sponsor excessively: to dress too warmly, around to sterilize everything and to feed strongly. We will consider these mistakes in more detail:
It is important! If the child overheats, he sweats, and it causes diseases more often than overcooling. It is necessary to dress the kid is more warmish, than itself.
Sterile environment. Bacteria people around provoke us the immune system to development of antibodies for fight against microbes and infections. Absolutely clean habitat of such incentive does not give, moreover, the child who grew up in sterile conditions — the potential allergic person.
Do not force the child to eat, let eats when gets hungry and so much how many wants. Include in a diet the vegetables and fruit, low-fat meat and products rich with cellulose. Cellulose helps to clean intestines from bacteria, and their congestion also negatively affects immunity. It is possible to distinguish the following from the objective reasons:
- Feeding by artificial mixes.
- Congenital chronic diseases.
- Intestinal dysbiosis or presence of worms.
- Inactive way of life of the child, too rare walks in the fresh air.
- Change of a way of life: kindergarten, school.
Getting to a kindergarten for the first time, the child gets to the unfamiliar world in which besides there is no mother. The stress and at the adult reduces organism resilience, without speaking about children.
Except unfamiliar in terms of psychology, Wednesday is unusual also in terms of microflora. Each person has the unique set of bacteria since the birth therefore facing others microflora, the children's organism begins resistance to an alien environment. At the strong immune system the accustoming takes place quickly and without complications, at weakened — the kid will be often ill.
The same situation and at school, it is also necessary to consider that in school classes the number of children is more, than in kindergarten groups.
We increase immunity of your kid
How to strengthen immunity to the child, without resorting to medicamentous means, we will consider further.
Day regimen
Making a day regimen for the child, special attention needs to be paid to a dream: night sleep at the child has to last not less than 10 hours, day — 2 hours. It is desirable to stack the child not later than 9-10 o'clock in the evening, then in the morning the kid will get used to wake up in 7-8. Such mode will allow to adapt quicker to morning rise in a kindergarten and school.
After rise charging and hygienic procedures are obligatory. Charging will help the kid to wake up and will give energy for active day.
So far the child not in a general education institution, you in the fresh air are responsible for walks. It is necessary to walk not less than three hours a day: one and a half-two hours before a lunch and as much before a dinner.
It is desirable to organize meals at the same time. It, besides, will allow it to get used to the mode of a kindergarten and school quicker.
Despite own employment, you find time for the mobile and developing games. Happy with attention paid to it and the kid, tired of active occupations, will feel psychological comfort and will not resist a dream.
Important! Observance of the mode does not mean the strict schedule on hours, sometimes it is possible to deviate the schedule, considering children's character and features of attitude.
Healthy nutrition
The large role in baby food is played by protein. He is responsible for construction of cages, growth of fabrics, supply of an organism with nutrients and formation of the system protecting from diseases.
Milk, low-fat meat and liver, eggs are obligatory products. The children's organism digests boiled or stewed food better, eggs are desirable in a boiled look or omelet, and it is necessary to add cottage cheese and fermented milk products to milk.
Vitamin D, acid Omega-3, calcium and phosphorus with which fish is rich are important for formation of strong nervous system, intellectual development, musculoskeletal function.
Not all fats are harmful: vegetable and animal fats (50 g a day) have to be present at a small amount. They promote digestion of important vitamins: A, E, D. This is fish, nuts, oils: sesame, linen, olive, sunflower, corn.
Carbohydrates give to the kid an energy charge for the whole day: that is why it is so useful to begin day with various porridges. For children it is better to cook them on milk. We do not forget also about sources of vitamins: vegetables and fruit. It is more preferable to eat them fresh.
Sports activities
Sport — one of the main components, than the child can increase immunity, according to pediatricians to 45% of children who actively play sports, are ill less often. As it works — during physical activity the body temperature increases, cages are saturated with oxygen, bacteria from high temperature perish at this time and are removed by airways.
Sport, more suitable for small children — swimming: it tempers, develops a respiratory system, warms and involves practically all muscles of a body, and horizontal position of a body favorably acts on heart.
Hardening
For a start we will discredit the widespread myth: often ill children cannot be tempered. It is possible to temper and it is necessary all children as the strong immune system for 70% depends on a way of life of the child, and children with poor health need consultation and individually picked up technique.
Basic rules of the procedure:
- It is necessary to begin in warm season.
- Fall of temperature during hardening happens gradually, depending on reaction of the kid.
- During process it is desirable to create the warm atmosphere, hardening has to be associated with positive emotions.
- Procedures should not be interrupted for a long time, system occupations are desirable.
There are three types of the procedure: air, water and sun. Hardening by air can be begun in maternity hospital, to leave the kid for some period without clothes, increasing this time.
Water — the best conductor of heat, it is possible to begin also with the birth. At the same time this is not about obligatory douche: it is possible to begin with rubdowns with a damp towel or a bathing mitten.
Solar bathtubs are useful to all and always, thanks to them the organism actively accumulates the vitamin D necessary for work of an organism in general and digestion of calcium in particular.
Control of level of a stress
During nervous shocks in an organism there is an emission of "harmful" hormones (adrenaline, cortisol) in the increased quantities. At long stresses it reduces protective functions of an organism and enters dissonance into its many systems.
Many factors can be a stress for children's mentality: change of a situation; the family conflicts between adults; deficiency time found for the kid; education with voices raised.
Small — does not mean silly: the child better will apprehend the remark made by quiet tone in a conversation as equals, than a hail which can just frighten him.
Do not wave away from the child's problems, it for you a trifle, and it is important for him. The child deprived of attention to himself to the interests, becomes reserved, and it is already unhealthy.
All conflict situations are solved without participation of kids "behind closed doors", children are the sponge absorbing all your moods and emotions, enduring more you as does not understand a problem, and just feels fear.
At any change of a situation, for example, a kindergarten or moving, be near, support, calm and communicate with children, try to smooth possible negative reactions as much as possible.
If to paraphrase the known sports saying, then at strong nervous system and composure and the physical body will be sound.
Whether you know? Abilities of an organism to be protected from diseases were noticed by ancient Greeks. When in 431 g BC during the Peloponnese war in Athens typhus epidemic raged, for patients put to look after safely had people, fairly including that infection does not threaten them any more.
National recipes for protection against diseases
Than to raise immunity to the child? There is the whole list of natural stimulators of protective functions of an organism:
- honey;
- lemon;
- berries (guelder-rose, cranberry, mountain ash, cowberry, bilberry, blackberry and wild strawberry);
- dogrose.
The fresh regular use, in juice, fruit drinks, compotes considerably will strengthen an organism. Except berries, there are still herbs: ekhinatseya, linden, camomile, St. John's wort and many others.
Dogrose broth — a source of ascorbic acid is very useful to children, besides, it has a pleasant taste, it is possible to sweeten it with honey.
Vitamin sweets are useful, by the way, here it is possible to kill two hares: to distract attention from harmful candies and to feed with vitamins.
Process on the meat grinder raisin, dried apricots, walnuts on a half-glass and a lemon half. Add honey to this mix to taste. Give one teaspoon 2 times a day.
It is important! Before giving to the child honey or other products of beekeeping, be convinced of absence of an allergy to a product.
One more useful recipe: 300 g is fresher than a cranberry, one small lemon. To crush, add two tablespoons of honey. Give with tea on a tablespoon 2 times a day.
As prevention of catarrhal diseases and strengthening of the immune system fruit drinks and juice from fresh berries, broths of herbs, tea from raspberry branches are useful <"