Human with an immature immune system. It is fully included in the work, even by seven years - until this time, protective resources are developing, improving and accumulating experience. And yet, some children get sick more often and longer than others, picking up ARVI up to four to six times a year. Such babies are also classified as often ill.
They can be learned not only by the number of visits to the pediatrician: among peers, they are distinguished by pallor, puffiness or sintry under the eyes, swollen eyelids, expressed blood vessels in the face. In addition, they are often psychologically unstable, whiny and insane (virus attacks affect the nervous system).
The peak of frequent illnesses occurs at the age of three to five years. No wonder: the child goes to the kindergarten, communicates with peers at the children's playground, actively exploring previously inaccessible spaces, where he faces a new microflora for him. But the body learns to fight it, producing antibodies. In the future, after meeting an "old friend", immunity is invariably used and will give the "invader" a worthy rebuff. By the school age, the number of often ill children is significantly reduced - a solid baggage player has already been accumulated.
It turns out that the disease - it is quite natural for a child's body. Thus, the immunity of the child is tempered and determines the future. But still, why do some children get sick more often than others? It turns out that parents, without knowing it themselves, can contribute to the fact that their child will often be sick. This is facilitated by some errors:
1. Failure of breastfeeding . It is known that immunity begins to produce its first antibodies at the age of about six months. Until this time, the baby receives the necessary protection through the mother's milk. Through the milk, the child receives the necessary antibodies, which are the basic element for building the further normally functioning immune system. Therefore, those children who were infants fed breast milk, in the future less likely to suffer from a cold.
2. The ban is enjoyable . Some parents are very afraid of spoiling their children's teeth since childhood, so they are not allowed to eat sweets. But in order to develop antibodies in the body, he needs glucose. After all, what is an antibody? It is a molecule of zinc, with two glucose molecules attached to it. And if you do not give the baby a sweet, then the body will have a deficiency of glucose, which in turn will negatively affect the process of producing antibodies. The rate of glucose consumption depends on the age of the child. So, a three-year-old will be enough to eat 40-60 grams of sweets a day: marmalade, jam, sweet biscuits or soft toffee.
3. Temperature regime . It is known that a child under 11-12 years old does not yet have a full-fledged sweat gland designed to remove excess isotropism fluid. And in order to cool the body, through the pores of the skin of the baby, a "heated" plasma is produced, with all useful minerals contained in it. The optimal temperature regime will be 18-21 degrees. That is why it is not going to wrap the baby and dress it too warmly. Children are more likely to bleed faster than adults, and therefore the children's body is more slowly cooled.
4. Rare promenades and bathing . Fresh air and regular water procedures are the factors that trigger our immune system into work, stimulate it. And so, if you refrain from walking and often bathe your baby, then immunity will not receive the necessary nutrition, it will be weak and not developed. By the way, the baby begins to be tempered for the first minutes of his life. After all, in the mother's tummy he is in comfortable conditions with a temperature of 37-37.5 degrees, and immediately after birth, he gets extraordinarily and extreme for him 20-22 degrees.
Also it is worth remembering regular walks. The child's body needs to be kept fresh for 2-3 hours. And not only in summer, but also in winter. Naturally, in the cold season it is necessary to accustom the body to a low temperature gradually: start from 15-20 minutes, and then gradually increase this interval and bring it to 1.5-2 hours. If you make walks constantly and on a regular basis, soon the body of the baby will get used to low temperatures and such diseases as influenza and SARS will not be terrible for him.
5. Refusal of the children's garden . Each family has its own internal set of microorganisms. Therefore, a child who is born in this environment gets used to them, and to harmful bacteria its immunity produces protection in the form of antibodies. Coming in the same garden, children begin to actively exchange microflora, including transferring to each other and bad bacteria. That's why a child who has gone vsadik, starts to ache, as a rule, more often than before. But it is not worth it because of keeping it at home all the time, because this problem will then have to face at school. It is best to give the child to a kindergarten at the age of 2.5-3 years, when his immune system is already beginning to function more or less normally.
6. Shoot down is not too high body temperature . Doctors unanimously assert that if the temperature of the child's body does not exceed the mark of 38.5 degrees, knocking it down with antipyretics is not worth it. The fact is that in this way you relax the organism and it is less willing and actively fighting infection. Such "help" prevents him from producing antibodies for the future, and the likelihood that the child will soon fall ill again, increases. An exception is made only by the tedets, who have a tendency to convulsions with an increase in body temperature. In this case, antipyretic must be used immediately. If the baby has not had cramps earlier, then it is better to try to cool the body with such external means as alcohol rubbing with the help of medical alcohol, and vodka or alcohol infusion of calendula. Or zhemozhno simply moisten a towel in cool water and periodically wipe the child's imeeto.
7. Self-administration of probiotics . Bifido- and lactobacilli, inhabiting the colon, also belong to the army of immunity. When a child has a dysbacteriosis, probiotics are prescribed to restore the intestinal microflora-a means containing lactoids and bifid bacteria in dried form. Today they are included even vedetskie mixes and porridges. But prescribe drugs should only the doctor taking into account the state of health of the crumbs. In addition to many nuances, the microflora from the outside can seize a living space, displacing the relatives of the helpers. The latter are more friendly to immunity. Harmless probiotics - dairy products. The child is best to offer them for a mid-afternoon snack - from 16.00 to 16.30. After splitting cow's protein - a laborious process, so do not load the body at night and in the morning.