Antipyretics for children are prescribed by a pediatrician. But there are emergency situations for fever in which the child needs to be given medicine immediately. Then the parents take responsibility and use antipyretic drugs. What is allowed to be given to infants? How can you bring down the temperature in older children? What are the safest medicines?
Municipal educational autonomous institution
secondary school №17
Consultation for parents
"We do not get sick in winter"
Physical education instructor:
Dzyuban Zinaida Ilyinichna
In winter, children more often than in the warm season suffer from various colds. In order to keep the number of diseases to a minimum, special preventive measures are taken.
Prevention of childhood colds includes the immunization of children, about which, by the way, there is a lot of controversy and there is no definite answer whether it is needed or not; taking vitamin, homeopathic and other drugs that help increase the immunity of children; systematic ventilation of premises; irradiation of premises with a mercury-quartz lamp; wet cleaning of premises; hardening of children; regular exercise and outdoor walks.
The air environment of the premises has a significant effect on the health of the child. The need of children for clean and fresh air is very high, since a high frequency and small volume of respiratory movements are combined with a high demand for oxygen. Therefore, it is necessary that the chemical, physical and biological composition of the indoor air, i.e. microclimate, met hygienic standards.
The composition of indoor air as a result of prolonged stay in it of children and adults is gradually deteriorating: the amount of carbon dioxide, water vapor, heavy ions increases, the temperature, dustiness, bacterial pollution rise, organic impurities, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and other substances appear in it that worsen well-being child, which indicates the need for regular ventilation of the premises.
For the prevention of colds, some elements of acupressure and self-massage, breathing exercises are useful, which must necessarily correspond to scientifically based health systems.
Correct breathing through the nose plays an important role in the prevention of respiratory and vocal apparatus diseases. During nasal breathing, the air, before entering the larynx, bronchi and lungs, passes through the narrow, winding nasal passages, where it is cleared of dust, microbes and other harmful impurities, moistened and warmed. This does not happen when breathing through the mouth. Respiratory gymnastics according to the method of B.S. Tolkachev is especially recommended for sick children. To protect children from colds, the absence of sharp fluctuations in air temperature is of great importance. Children should not be taken out of highly heated rooms into the cold, allowed to drink cold drinks in a hot state. It is also necessary to ensure that children do not talk for a long time, do not shout, do not cry on walks in damp and cold weather.
Regular walks in the fresh air have a great influence on strengthening the child's body, the absence of which leads to a lack of oxygen in the child's body and a decrease in immunity.
Hardening is a powerful factor in the prevention of childhood colds. The hardening agents are sun, air and water. Each type of hardening must take place under the strict supervision of a physician. There are general rules for all types of hardening.
Hardening is carried out only by completely healthy people.
Doses of hardening effects should be increased gradually. Abrupt, unusual cooling can cause illness.
It is necessary to take into account the individual characteristics of the organism. In case of disturbances in the activity of the heart, lungs, kidneys, diseases of the nasopharynx, it is necessary to consult a doctor before hardening.
Hardening procedures are carried out systematically and consistently. You need to harden yourself throughout your life. Even a two-week break can negate the effect of hardening procedures carried out for a long time.
It is necessary to accustom the body to the most different types of cooling: strong, medium, weak, fast.
Air and sun baths should be carried out while running, walking, performing general developmental exercises, outdoor games. This increases the efficiency of hardening.
It is recommended to alternate local hardening procedures (walking barefoot, gargling with cool water, etc.) with others, since hardening certain parts of the body does not increase the overall stability of the body.
It should be remembered: no matter how perfect the hardening methods are carried out in a preschool educational institution, it will not achieve the desired result if it does not find support in the family.
In conclusion, it is appropriate to recall what factors determine the health of not only children, but also adults. It turns out that 20% of health depends on the genotype, 20% on the environment, 50% (!) On the lifestyle, and only 10% on medical care. Therefore, our health and the health of our children are in our hands.
So unexpectedly, after the incredible heat, autumn came with cool weather and rains. Consequently, the first colds in children of all ages are not far off.
What to do to prevent the child from catching a cold in the fall? How to prevent an elementary cold or the ubiquitous ARVI? How to happily live this autumn period?
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Consultation for parents "Prevention of colds in children in the autumn"
With the onset of autumn, the issue of preventing colds becomes more urgent than ever. Every mother is worried about how to avoid colds in general or to minimize the duration and intensity of a cold.
So, here are a few important points to help you prevent colds:
Our friend is the right temperature
- The air temperature in the room should not be higher than +22.
- We also dress the child on the street for the weather. Do not wrap up in 33 clothes, but also do not let cold air get under the clothes.
- If it's raining outside the window, but it's cold, do not forget to wear a warm sock in a rubber boot.
Humidification and access to fresh air in the apartment
In the cold season, the topic of air humidification is especially relevant. Since various heaters, batteries, like an air conditioner, however, dry out the air, and this, in turn, leads to dryness of the nasopharyngeal mucosa and direct entry of microbes into the body.
Therefore, it is extremely important to humidify the air in the apartment: regularly ventilate the room, sleep with the window open, do wet cleaning (while getting rid of things that actively collect dust) and use a humidifier. It is also recommended to rinse the baby's nose with saline.
Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy is known to enhance immunity and is able to bring the body back to normal. Use only natural essential oils without additives. Pine, lemon, lavender, mint, orange, tea tree oil and others are suitable.
Frequent walks on the street
You need to walk with your baby on the street as often as possible. Autumn and early spring are no exception. Let it even be short walks for 30-40 minutes, but let there be 2-3 of them per day. Cool air and contrasting temperatures have a positive effect on the child's body. Only at the same time, of course, dress for the weather.
Hardening
Tempering can also be used to prevent colds. True, you need to start hardening much earlier and start from the period of absolute health of the baby.
The hardening effect is created by the temperature difference. In summer, the air temperature is higher than the water temperature. And in the pool, on the contrary, the water has a higher temperature compared to the air. So the water in the pool is +34 degrees for babies, for older children - +32, but the air temperature is already +26 degrees, in the locker room - + 23-24 degrees.
Just do not start the hardening procedure abruptly. If you decide to start hardening at home, do it gradually. For example, start by pouring water with a temperature of +36 (body temperature) and every three to four days reduce the temperature of the water by 1-2 degrees. It is advisable to stop at the threshold of 12-13 degrees and then pour over just such water.
Vitamins and medicines
Proper nutrition is the best way to provide your child with vitamins. But feeding the baby monotonous food and compensating for the lack of vitamins with medical vitamin preparations is not worth it.
In general, try to give your baby as little medicine as possible and never self-medicate.
And from folk methods in order to prevent colds, use natural compotes from dried fruits, jam (everyone knows the benefits of raspberry jam), decoctions from medicinal herbs. Remember vitamin C, it is extremely important in preventing colds.
Also take note of the rules for children and adults on ARVI prevention:
- wash your hands with soap and water, especially after blowing your nose, before eating or before preparing food;
- try not to touch your eyes, nose and mouth with your hands;
- cover your mouth when sneezing and coughing;
- blow your nose into paper handkerchiefs and throw them away immediately;
- try to use a custom cup, glasses and cutlery;
- avoid close contact with patients with acute respiratory viral infections
Prevention of colds in children
Season of colds is nothing for us! Prevention of colds without the use of special medications in children and adults is an urgent measure on the eve of the winter period. The autumn-winter season brings with it frequent colds in children of all ages. Every mother knows how difficult it is to cope with a cold, and how difficult it is for children to tolerate sore throat or flu, and a simple runny nose does not give anyone pleasure.
What can be done to reduce the risk of colds in a child and avoid their consequences?
In fact, it is very simple, you just need to draw up a small plan of preventive measures for your child, and even better, to be involved in their implementation with the whole family, and then taking care of the child's health will also benefit you and relieve you of seasonal illnesses.
First point of our plan, which can be developed together with the child, which will undoubtedly attract his interest and make him not reluctantly, but gladly carry it out, so the first point is to combine the pleasant and the entertaining with the useful. It is clear that in urban life there is not much time and conditions for hardening and staying in the fresh air. But it's not at all difficult to order a taxi a couple of times a week and take your child to the pool.
Swimming is a universal hardening for everyone. Even if a child does not have the opportunity to engage in other sports, often be outdoors, enough rest, then, believe me, swimming will be enough. It not only perfectly hardens and improves immunity, it is practically indispensable for a growing organism, as it develops muscles, promotes growth and normalizes the state of the child's vegetative-vascular system, which withstands high loads during the period of active growth. In addition, for schoolchildren, a visit to the pool becomes a universal means of relaxing all muscles and calming the nerves.
Second point of our plan - we combine tasty and healthy. There are currently a lot ofchildren's medicines and fortified products, for the prevention of colds. However, no matter how safe they are, not everyone wants to stuff a child with drugs in order to prevent colds. It is much better and more useful to include in the menu of the whole family familiar and very effective products in terms of preventing viral diseases.
If you make it a rule to drink daily Tea with lemon and eat it with sugar along with the zest. Train your child to garlic , which does not have to be eaten in its pure form, but you can simply chop fresh garlic finely and sprinkle it on a bowl of soup, and, in addition, put the crushed garlic in a saucer near the child's bed or on the table where he does homework, then these measures will be no worse than drugs from a pharmacy to protect a child from viral infections and, moreover, will be absolutely harmless.
And more, get in the pharmacy rich in vitamins (especially vitamin C) rosehip syrup ... Add it to tea or give it to your child as a standalone drink, diluting it in warm water. You will practically provide your child with not only good immunity, but also vigor and efficiency at school, since rosehip syrup helps to increase activity and gives a good boost of energy.
Third point in our plan for a healthy winter - teach the childtakes care of his health... Viral infections are usually easiest to catch in crowded places. You should not limit the child's communication with peers, but still you can and should tell him how to protect himself from viral infections. Explain to your child that it is best not to kiss when meeting with friends, to wash hands before you send something into your mouth, try not to be very close to coughing and sneezing people, do not visit public places unnecessarily and use public transport as little as possible, do not use other people's handkerchiefs and dishes in the garden or school.
Fourth ... To avoid colds, first of all, you must exclude their possible causes. Dress your child for the season , not warmer and not lighter than necessary. The main requirement: that there is no hypothermia, and the feet are dry and warm, and therefore good shoes are the key to the health of your child. And of course, the head also needs to be kept warm, because if this is not a hat (some teenagers, due to the peculiarities of their age, as you know, do not like to wear winter hats), then be sure to provide for the presence of a hood in the child's winter clothes.
That's all the wisdom. Hard? Not! The best protection against colds is its comprehensive prevention.
Irina Shelkovnikova
Consultation for parents "Prevention of acute respiratory infections in the autumn"
What to do to prevent the child from catching a cold in the fall? How to prevent an elementary cold or the ubiquitous ARVI? How to happily live this autumn period?
Yes, in general, you don’t need to do anything new or beyond the natural. Just sit down, grab a piece of paper and a pen, and make a prevention plan.
Prevention consists in a set of actions aimed at creating conditions that are unfavorable for viruses and beneficial for immunity. Let's consider these actions point by point.
1. Have a chat with all family members about the need for preventive measures at home. The best example for a child is the example of parents! And collective activity brings all family members closer and encourages systematic exercises in the habit of “Being healthy”.
2. Walking in any weather. Let not long in time, but obligatory and systematic. Please note that shopping with your child contributes to the opposite effect, that is, the acquisition of airborne infections.
Walking is finding a child on the street, walking in a park or square. Admiring the beauty of autumn nature, you contribute to the development of child's movements and a good metabolism, as well as successful adaptation to a damp and humid climate.
3. Proper nutrition. Viruses do not like food containing proteins: meat, chicken, fish. In lean time, plant foods with a high protein content (legumes - beans, peas) are useful in this regard. Viruses also do not tolerate when the "owner" eats iron-containing food (meat, buckwheat, pomegranates, etc.).
Use the child's wishes to eat something “tasty and healthy.” Here is an example ration of “tasty and healthy habits”:
Start right now every morning and evening to drink tea with lemon and eat it with sugar along with the zest. I told you that the example of parents is contagious. Well, infect your child with good and healthy habits before a viral infection does!
Teach your child to eat garlic. Garlic does not have to be eaten in its pure form. Fresh garlic can simply be chopped finely and sprinkled onto a bowl of soup.
Children like to wear “healthy amulets” around their necks. So put a slice of fresh garlic in a plastic cocoon from a kinder surprise and change it every morning, and at home by the bed or on the child's table put crushed garlic in a saucer.
Buy vitamin-rich (especially vitamin C) rosehip syrup from your pharmacy. Add it to tea or give it to your child as a standalone drink, diluting it in warm water.
You will practically provide your child with not only good immunity, but also vigor and efficiency in kindergarten. Why? Because rosehip syrup helps to increase activity and gives a good boost of vivacity and energy.
4. Did you know that one of the possible causes of colds in the fall is clothing mismatch child weather outside. For some reason, some parents overheat their child, others dress lightly.
To help your child avoid colds, rule out possible causes.
Dress your child for the season, no warmer or lighter than necessary.
Basic requirements for a child's clothing:
1. Good footwear for the weather is essential for your child's health. Feet should be dry and warm.
2. Hat or hood on the jacket. We always keep our head warm.
3. Pay special attention to the arms, legs, head and lower back.
5. Hygiene and cleanliness home space. Wet cleaning, a lot of light, dry enough, these are the main parameters of the ecology of the home. But not hot, and not too dry. Daytime temperature + 21-23 degrees, at night +18 degrees. It is necessary to teach yourself and children to sleep with the window open, the sleep will be healthy.
6. Wash your hands more often, infections most of all accumulate on door handles in public places, and each person touches his nose, eyes, face with his hands hundreds of times.
Difficult? Not! The best protection against colds in the fall is its comprehensive prevention. By combining all of the above tips, you can significantly increase your chances of winning the fight against viruses, and perhaps not get sick at all in the coming cold of autumn and winter. Enjoy your prevention!
Be healthy!
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In this article, we will give parents some tips on how to prevent frequent SARS in your baby.
1. Strengthen your child's immunity... It is not at all necessary to stuff it with expensive and not always useful modern immunomodulators, their effectiveness has not yet been proven, but their purchase quite significantly hits the parent's wallet, especially if the child is not alone in the family.
As a means of increasing the body's defenses, a drug such as Echinacea tincture is perfect. For a preschool child, it is enough to give a few drops daily, diluted in a small amount of water, so that his body will more effectively resist viruses and bacteria that attack him in kindergarten. 
2.. You do not need to be fanatic about these procedures and pour ice water on the baby every day, so you can only harm him. Hardening the body even consists in not wrapping up the child in the cold season, and in summer allowing him to walk barefoot on the grass, sunbathe and swim in cold river water. Never dress a child warmer than you are dressed - heat exchange in a growing body is much faster than in an adult's body. A wrapped child will sweat and catch a cold much faster than a baby who will simply be dressed for the weather, without additional warm sweaters and scarves.
3. Give your child vitamins... Of course, good nutrition can provide a growing body with all the necessary substances, but during the off-season and epidemics, the child needs additional support. You can give him complex multivitamin preparations (but be careful, they sometimes cause an allergic reaction), and also the main medicine of our grandmothers, rosehip syrup, is perfect for these purposes. It is rich in vitamin C, does not cause allergies and is liked by children because of its sweet taste.
4. Protect your child... If you know that you have to go with your baby to a place where a large number of sick children congregate (for example, to a children's clinic), then first lubricate his nose from the inside with some antiviral agent (for example, axalin ointment) or ordinary baby cream. This will serve as a temporary barrier to prevent infection from entering the body through the baby's nasal passages.
Talk to your local pediatrician for advice on how to strengthen your baby's immunity.
