Diathesis should not be regarded as a disease, it is rather a borderline condition, so to speak, predisposition to the disease. Diathesis is most often found in children, between the ages of six months and up to three years. This is due to the immaturity of the gastrointestinal tract and the immune system. What are the signs of diathesis: it is bright red spots on the cheeks, which are highly flaky and can later become crusted, it is often accompanied by such manifestations as stool, cough and sore throat, allergic rhinitis and conjunctivitis.
Scientists around the world are still arguing about the nature of diathesis and the causes of its causing, although everyone agrees that diathesis is easier to prevent than treat. The main preventive measure is the careful and timely introduction of complementary foods in the diet of infants, high-quality and rational nutrition of older children.
Let's determine what to do to get diathesis in children as quickly as possible.
1. Diet is one of the main and effective measures that is indicated for diathesis. To do this, it is necessary to exclude from the diet of the child highly allergenic products - meat broths, spicy dishes, salty dishes, fried foods, smoked products, spices, eggs, fish, caviar, seafood, tomatoes, Bulgarian pepper, mushrooms, nuts, cucumbers, fruits and berries: raspberries , citrus fruits, strawberries, strawberries, apricots, peaches, pomegranate, sea-buckthorn, melon, kiwi, pineapple, watermelon, blueberry. Honey, caramel, marshmallows, chocolate, pastilles and cakes should be excluded. In addition, limit semolina, bread from the highest grades of flour, pasta, sour cream and whole milk, beets, carrots, fruits and berries such as cherries, cranberries, black currants, bananas. Allowed (taking into account individual tolerance): cereals (pearl barley, oatmeal, buckwheat, with caution rice, corn, millet can be used), fermented milk products (kefir, yogurt without additives, biochefe), lean meat (beef, lean pork, rabbit, horse meat , turkeys), all kinds of cabbage (white cabbage, broccoli, color, etc.), zucchini, light pumpkin, squash, green parsley, dill from fruits, green and white apples, pears, white berries and white plum. Not sweet corn and rice sticks and flakes, rye bread, bread with bran (bran are good adsorbents). Also shown is a plentiful drink, as drinking it is desirable to use mineral water (with a large consumption of water, faster all metabolic processes in the body are accelerated, which accordingly increases the rate of withdrawal of the allergen).
In addition, often diathesis causes a large amount of consumed product, although the already started mechanism can be maintained and aggravated even by a tiny dose of the allergen. Therefore, the diet should be strict and consistent. It is for this purpose that all children in the social circle should act in the same vein.
2. The diary. To make it convenient to control all the foods consumed by the baby, nutritionists and allergists recommend starting a DIARY, in which to fill in everything that your child ate and drank daily, what your child smeared and washed about, than he washed his clothes (since, in addition to food allergens, such as soap, cream, powder). In addition, it describes all the changes that occur with the skin, the general well-being of the child, the quality of the stool.
3. Observation of a specialist. Usually doctors, in parallel with the diet prescribe medication: adsorbents, antihistamines (which relieve itching), as well as drugs that restore the intestinal microflora (since diathesis is often accompanied by intestinal dysbiosis). If the diathesis does not pass, then you should consult an immunologist or an allergist. Because in some cases the cause of diathesis may be some simple parasites, or rather the products of their vital activity.
4. Hygiene. It is necessary to maintain cleanliness in the room where the child is (mandatory wet cleaning once a week), replace the existing down and feather pillows and blankets with synthetone, do not start pets, remove sources of dust (carpets, books, etc.).
5. Skin Care. It includes bathing, lotions, smearing affected areas with ointments and creams. There are two types of diathesis-dry and wetting. Dry is usually manifested in skin peeling, and wetting is when blisters appear on the affected areas of the skin, which burst and form wet areas that are very itchy. But we must bear in mind that in some forms of wet diathesis, water procedures are contraindicated.
For bathing, it is better to use indifferent soaps (lanolin, baby) or slightly alkaline soaps, or high-quality shampoos that do not contain artificial colors, fragrances and preservatives.
Some experts can offer traditional medicine - bathing children in the broth of a turn, a decoction of wheat bran or bay leaf, from the bark of oak, broths of chamomile. But it should be remembered that on any grass the child may have an allergic reaction.
6. Psychological assistance. As a rule, exacerbations of diathesis accompany various kinds of depressions (due to constant itching, sleep is disturbed, the child is nervous and angry), with which the child can not cope alone, at these difficult moments, relatives and relatives should come to their aid, and if this is necessary even for a specialist psychologist.
These are the basic tips that will help answer the question of what to do to get diathesis in children. Usually in unopened cases and with strict adherence to all the recommendations of specialists, the diathesis goes to 3-5 years, together with the improvement of the functioning of the digestive system and immunity. Parents need to bear in mind that children with diathesis are more prone to colds, so it is necessary to carry out a set of preventive measures on time.