The category of frequently ill children includes children who, more than four times a year, complain of discomfort caused, for example, by ARVI / ARI. If a child is sick too often, it complicates both his life and the life of his parents. What can be done in such a situation? How can you improve children's health?
Before taking any specific action, it is necessary to establish the exact root cause of why the child is often sick. To do this, you need to pass the appropriate tests, go to an appointment with both a pediatrician and visit a gastroenterologist, immunologist, otolaryngologist. The reasons for a weakened immune system in a child can be different. They are able to originate in the period of intrauterine development, arise due to psychological influences and stress factors (psychosomatics), and so on. If you do not identify and try to eliminate the root cause, then any other measures will not bring special results or will only have a temporary effect.
It is important to note the effect of psychosomatic factors on the immune system in childhood. Often, no methods of correcting the condition help if the reason lies in children's fears, in the family microclimate, in the child's internal emotions and experiences. If parents notice that the child has begun to catch colds often, complain of abdominal pain, if any symptoms of other painful conditions appear, and medications and herbal medicine do not work, there is a reason to seek advice from a child psychologist or immediately go to an appointment with a psychosomatologist.
10 Tips for Improving Children's Health
- You need to try to get rid of all background and sluggish diseases. It is necessary to take your child to the dentist regularly. Problems with teeth or gums, any inflammatory processes in the oral cavity undermine the immune system.
- It is important to balance the children's diet. Add more healthy foods to your diet, which will be rich not only in vitamins, but also in various microelements. It will be useful, if the child is very painful, from time to time to give vitamins, active nutritional supplements. Herbal teas can also have a beneficial effect on the immune system, but only if the child does not have allergies.
- You should not often take a child who is regularly sick and easily catching colds to events where there will be a lot of people. During the recovery period after illness, exhibitions, concerts, performances, etc. should be avoided. It will be useful to minimize the amount of time that the child spends on the subway or public transport.
- Hardening is a great option for promoting health during childhood. However, you should not immediately send your child to swim in the ice-hole in winter or pour ice water over him from head to toe. It is necessary to start hardening gradually, it is necessary to act carefully, carefully monitoring the reactions of the child's body and monitoring the well-being of the child.
- Physical activity and sports have a positive effect on health. You can enroll a child in a children's yoga group if, for some reason, it is not possible to attend other sports sections. However, even simple home exercises or amateur sports, such as badminton or skiing, can have a positive effect on children's immunity.
- What if the child is very often sick? It is recommended to walk more when you feel well, to observe the correct daily routine. Sick children may need more sleep than others. Don't forget the basic rules of personal hygiene. It is necessary to teach the child to wash his hands and wash his face, after returning from the street, regularly brush his teeth, and so on.
- Often, immunity suffers from a lack of vitamin D in the body. In the summer, you should try to be more often with your child outside in sunny weather. In the winter season and under unfavorable climatic conditions, a UV lamp can help.
- If possible, you need to protect a child who regularly falls ill from stress and nervous conditions. Often, it is stressful exposure from the outside that is a provocateur for the disease, depletes the immune system. It is important to remember that children very often "mirror" their parents, adopt their reactions and demeanor. If the parents are very anxious, restless, fearful, these traits will be passed on to the child. And such emotions and states negatively affect the psycho-emotional background, the nervous system, lead to a weakening of the protective functions of the body.
- You should try to avoid treating your child with antibiotics. Such potent drugs suppress the activity of not only harmful bacteria, but also beneficial microorganisms. They inflict a serious blow on the internal organs and can cause dysbiosis. It has been proven that a child diagnosed with dysbiosis suffers from colds and other diseases very often. If it is impossible to refuse antibiotics, then it is imperative to conduct a course of restorative therapy afterwards.
- It is necessary to adjust the load that the child receives, for example, at school. Very often, overexcitation and overstrain negatively affect the state of health and suppress the functioning of the immune system.
