There are three reasons why children often catch cold.
First, the child's physical condition is poor, such as chronic upper respiratory inflammation,
Malnutrition or rickets, etc., decreased resistance to diseases, easy to catch a cold. Children who usually lack exercise and seldom go outdoors are poor in physical fitness and easy to catch a cold.
The second is the influence of children's bedroom and living environment. The survey shows that children are more likely to catch a cold in families with low room temperature or poor indoor and outdoor sanitary conditions.
The third is the infection of the child's parents or other relatives. Parents or other relatives often contact children after catching a cold, which will pose a threat to children and make them prone to catching a cold.
After finding out the reasons and taking corresponding countermeasures to eliminate these reasons, children will be prevented from catching a cold often. For example, children with upper respiratory tract inflammation or other diseases should be treated promptly and thoroughly. For children who have little activity and seldom go outdoors, they should gradually increase the time of outdoor activities from summer and autumn to enhance their physique. When the indoor temperature in the family or nursery is too low or the temperature difference is too large, we should actively create conditions to improve the living environment of children.
When someone in the family has a cold, they should pay attention to self-isolation, avoid contact with children, and be careful to transmit the cold to children. For children who often catch colds, vitamin A preparations should be supplemented appropriately, such as cod liver oil drops or cod liver oil capsules, and foods rich in vitamin A such as pork liver, carrots and tomatoes should be eaten in peacetime.
When a baby catches a cold, parents are always very nervous. Here, experts suggest that parents can use the following methods in their daily care:
1 Wash your face with cold water and soak your feet with hot water: get into the habit of soaking your feet with cold water in the morning and evening every day, which will help improve your body's disease resistance. "Keeping colds out of your skin" is the truth;
2, physical fitness method: in autumn and winter, you should take a moderate walk, play ball and do exercises outdoors ... this can improve your body's ability to keep out the cold and prevent colds;
3, drinking ginger tea method: using ginger and brown sugar to boil water instead of tea can effectively prevent colds;
4. Diet prevention and treatment method: the principle of autumn diet. Chinese medicine believes that the five flavors have different functions and are closely related to the five internal organs. There is a saying that the five flavors belong to the five internal organs. The climate change in the four seasons has a certain influence on the physiological and pathological changes of human body. Therefore, it is the fundamental to ensure scientific diet because of symptoms, people, places and times.
Finally, nutrition experts suggest that the climate in autumn is dry, so you can take white fungus, sesame, honey, rock sugar, pears and other foods in late autumn and early winter to nourish yin and moisten dryness. In addition, the experts also specially provided a small prescription suitable for infants to prevent and treat colds. The formula is: a handful of glutinous rice is boiled into soup, seven onion roots and seven slices of ginger, and half a bottle of vinegar is cooked to prevent colds and protect health.