School Season = Sick Season, How to Prevent It For moms and dads, the biggest thing these days is that “school is finally starting for the kids”. Some moms will be excited and say, “School is finally starting! La ~ la ~ la ~ ~ some mothers may be a little reluctant a little sad to say: the child is finally going to start school, woo ~ woo ~ woo ~ ~ No matter what kind of mood, there is a phenomenon that parents should pay attention to, that is, just into the kindergarten children are particularly easy to get sick, in the pediatrics clinic often hear a lot of parents to respond to the child did not go to kindergarten before the very little sick, but a kindergarten on the three-day sickness. Often, when a child in kindergarten gets sick, other children also get sick one after another. This is the so-called “school season = sick season”. So what can be done to make children in kindergarten less sick? 1, good hygiene habits: wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands! For more than a hundred years, human life expectancy has extended from about 31 years at the beginning of the 20th century to about 70 years today. How did mankind pull off such a tremendous miracle? A daily activity so mundane that one can almost ignore it has played an important role in this journey: hand washing! Hands are an important vector for the spread of pathogenic bacteria. Each person has about 100 types of bacteria on each hand, and a pair of unwashed hands can have up to hundreds of thousands of bacteria! Proper and effective hand washing can remove most of the pathogenic bacteria from your hands. Hand hygiene is an important and cost-effective measure to prevent and control the spread of disease. As the old saying goes, “the doctor who treats the disease is the doctor who prevents the disease”, which means that a skillful doctor helps to prevent people from getting sick, and the importance of hand hygiene is exactly the same thing. It’s not enough to know how to wash your hands, you need to know how to wash your hands! The World Health Organization recommended a standard hand washing method, called the six-step hand washing method, hand washing time of more than 40 seconds or more, you can increase the hand hygiene rate of 30% -40%, the first step, palms opposite each other, fingers together, rubbing against each other; the second step, palms to the back of the hand, along the seam of each other scrubbing; the third step, palms opposite each other, hands crossed along the seam of each other rubbing; the fourth step, hands holding each other, rubbing each other; and the importance of hand hygiene is exactly the same. The fourth step, the two hands hold each other, rubbing each other; the fifth step, one hand holding the other hand thumb, in the palm of the rotating friction; the sixth step, fingertip friction palm. It’s important to say it three times: wash your hands! Wash your hands! Wash your hands! Parents should teach their children to develop the habit of washing their hands from an early age, and not to rub their eyes or pull out their nostrils with their hands, which is a good habit that will last them a lifetime. 2, to help children better adapt to kindergarten life Children enter the kindergarten this new environment, leaving the familiar family and the environment, in an unfamiliar environment is bound to produce fear and anxiety, more or less affect the child’s physiological function, body resistance decline. So parents should try to help children better adapt to kindergarten life, such as often personally pick up and drop off children, try to find time after school to spend more time with the child, talk about interesting things in the kindergarten, the child’s performance of the progress of more praise and encouragement, etc., so that the child has a good mood. 3, adequate nutrition and sleep Nutrition is the material basis of physical health. Some children are partial to picky eaters, unbalanced diet structure, easy to cause anemia and some vitamins or trace elements of the lack of resistance to reduce, so easy to repeated colds or some other infectious diseases. Sufficient sleep is also an important condition for children’s development, some children sleep late and sleep less, coupled with parents love to stay up late, the child’s sleep time is not guaranteed, affecting the child’s growth and development, and at the same time, make the child over-tired and prone to disease. So help your child to develop good eating and sleeping habits from childhood. Especially children do not have to insist that children go to kindergarten when they are not feeling well, you can rest appropriately. 4, to ensure that the time of outdoor activities indoor often crowded, air circulation, etc., more physical exercise, especially more outdoor activities can improve the child’s physical fitness. Parents can take their children to outdoor sports, play in the park, outdoor cycling and so on. Can develop the child’s horizons, but also can be strong physical fitness. 5, develop the habit of drinking water appropriately colds and flu mainly through the droplet transmission, that is, through the mouth and nose into the body. Oral and nasal mucosa can be kept moist to a large extent to prevent the invasion of cold germs. Therefore, it is appropriate to drink more water, especially more electrolyte-supplemented water (rehydration salts, fruit juices, etc.), so that the body can be maintained in a state of adequate water and electrolytes. Children should be taught to drink more water appropriately and not wait until they feel thirsty to find water. Some parents or teachers let children drink water every half hour is also not necessary, excessive water will increase the body’s metabolic burden. 6, home environment and kindergarten environment Home and kindergarten environment should be cleaned regularly, children’s toys are often wiped or sun exposure, often open the windows to ventilate, etc., can be a certain degree to reduce the environment of the breeding of pathogenic bacteria. Please parents and teachers do a good job of baby’s health guards.