At any age hardening is the main thing for a healthy lifestyle. It is of great importance for children who have not yet developed the ability to respond adequately to sudden changes in the external environment. Children are much faster than adults are supercooled, overheated, sensitive to moisture, to ultraviolet rays. If the tempering of children is started at an early age, they are less likely to get sick, it is easier to adapt when entering a child preschool institution.
Tempering of preschool children
A favorable period for hardening procedures is the summer season.
Basic principles of hardening:
- It is necessary to begin hardening, when the child is completely healthy.
- The duration and intensity of hardening procedures, taking into account the tolerability of their child, should increase gradually.
- To get the effect of hardening, you need to conduct daily procedures.
Air procedures are on day mode
- These are air baths during morning exercises and when changing a child.
- A dream in a ventilated bedroom with an open window.
- The optimal temperature regime in the room should be plus 18 degrees - plus 20 degrees.
- In any weather, walk for 3 hours daily.
- The child's clothing should be with minimal content of synthetic and artificial materials, do not constrain movements and at the same time be easy.
During walks, you need to look after the baby's condition, regulate his motor activity. If he sweats, you need to take the child home and change clothes. Wet clothing, drying out on the baby, can cause it to cool down.
Tempering with the sun should start with air and light baths in the shade of the trees, then you can go to sunbaths, while some parts of the legs, hands, body, you need to leave open. The head of the child should be protected from direct sunlight by a light panama. On a hot summer day, babies need a drink. The best time for sunbathing is from 10 am to 11 am.
Quenching with water
- It is an effective method of hardening. This hardening should be firmly entrenched in daily procedures
- Wash hands after sleeping or use the toilet with warm water and soap. Alternating washing of the upper part of the chest, neck, face, hands to the elbows, then cool, then warm water.
- Cleaning the teeth and then rinsing the mouth with cool water.
- Rinsing the throat after eating with boiled water, gradually reducing the temperature from 36 degrees to 22 degrees, lowering every five days the temperature by 1 degree
Hardening water procedures:
Body Wiping
- Parts of the body - back, chest, arms rub with a hairy towel or mitten until light redness for 7 days. Then they produce wet wipes, every two days reduce the water temperature by one degree, from 30 degrees to 32 degrees. The duration of this procedure is 3 minutes. Then do a dry wipe.
- The feet are hardened with contrasting douche. Children who are very often ill with ARI need a sparing wetting regime: they are poured by warm water with a temperature of 38 degrees, then they are poured with water plus 28 degrees and finish with warm water. Healthy children are recommended a greater contrast: plus 38, then plus 18, plus 38 and finish plus 18 degrees. The procedure is terminated by dry grinding. They pour water from a jug.
- For hands use contrasting douches, the temperature is the same as when pouring feet.
- Pouring the body is carried out with water plus 36 degrees, lasting 15 seconds. Gradually, the temperature drops by one degree per week, and the duration of doucheing increases to 35 seconds.
When the child is sick, the hardening procedures are renewed two weeks after recovery. The water temperature should be three degrees higher than it was before the child's illness. A powerful hardening factor is swimming. Classes on the water affect the child's body, so swimming hardens and strengthens it.