How to prevent common childhood illnesses in spring

Spring is a season of changeable weather and also a season when children are prone to illness. Parents should arrange their children’s diet and living according to the seasonal changes. Compared with adults, children’s physical characteristics are: “fire” big. As the saying goes, “cover up in spring and freeze in autumn”, but parents should not cover up their children too thickly. In the Ten Methods of Raising Children, the idea that “the back, abdomen, feet and knees should be warm, and the head should be cool” has been put forward. But don’t cut your child’s clothes too fast. Spring is the season of colds and flu, children’s spleen, stomach, nerve development is not yet complete, once a cold, no timely treatment, there may be infected with epidemic meningitis, complication of viral myocarditis, nephritis, hepatitis and other incurable diseases, to the children and parents to bring pain. Many parents report that their children are especially prone to repeated colds in the spring, what is the reason for this? The characteristic of children’s illness is that they get sick fast and get well fast. In fact, the cold is not yet completely well, and the parents stopped the medicine for their children, leaving the heat and poison in the child’s body has not been completely removed, leaving foci of disease. Once the child is exposed to the causative agent again, it is easy to have an attack, get sick and induce pharyngitis, tonsillitis, fever and other illnesses. Children with poor physical condition who suffer from colds are prone to develop viral myocarditis and other more difficult to treat conditions. Children with colds seem to be well, no symptoms, once the child suffers from viral myocarditis, do not have a heavy mental burden, not to mention indiscriminate medical treatment, it is best to find experienced pediatric specialist doctor diagnosis. As long as you adhere to the treatment, it is completely curable. The weather is gradually warming up, the children’s diet is not also a corresponding change? For the sake of children’s healthy growth, parents should always add or subtract clothes for children in spring according to the change of climate. Pay attention to indoor ventilation, and take your child out for sunshine and moderate exercise. Children’s partiality and picky eating are very bad for children’s growth. You should not let your child eat too much at mealtime. In spring, children should drink more water, eat more vegetables and fruits, eat less greasy and fried food, and develop good habits. After sweating from outside activities, it is best to take a hot bath to clean the skin. As the weather warms up and the temperature rises in the recent period, there is a significant increase in the number of children infected with respiratory diseases, allergic reaction diseases and intestinal diseases. Children are most susceptible to the following three types of diseases: The first type is respiratory diseases. The first category is respiratory diseases, such as upper respiratory tract infections, bronchitis, pneumonia and other cold-induced diseases. This type of disease is very easy to epidemic in the spring, such as epidemic meningitis, measles, rubella, mumps, chicken pox, and so on. The second category is allergic reaction diseases. Spring flowers bloom, people go out in the spring easily come into contact with allergens, easily triggered asthma, allergic rhinitis and allergic hives. The third category is intestinal diseases. Due to the increased opportunity to go out, eating out of the opportunity to increase, children often use dirty hands to eat, the opportunity to suffer from intestinal diseases will increase. Colds are medically known as “respiratory infections”, more than 90% of which are caused by viral infections, and are common among children. According to statistics, the average number of colds among young children can be as high as 6 to 10 times per year. According to statistics, the average number of colds in young children can be as high as 6~10 times a year. The main phenomenon is runny nose, sneezing, sore throat, red eyes, etc. The process usually takes 3~5 days. Cold prevention: 1, enhance the baby’s resistance, usually eat more to enhance immunity, rich in vitamin A, iron, zinc and other foods. 2, colds can take Banlangen, Daqingye, Shuanghuanglian and other traditional Chinese medicines. Vitamin C can enhance the ability to fight diseases, and should be taken more. 3.Don’t just abuse antibiotics when you have a cold. Colds are mostly caused by viral infections, and the use of antibiotics is not effective. Babies should drink more water, rest more and pay attention to reasonable nutrition when they have a cold. Spring is the season of high incidence of chickenpox and mumps. Chickenpox is an acute infectious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus, with herpes appearing all over the body, and babies may have fever. It takes about 1 week from the onset of the disease to the onset of the rash. The blisters are itchy and break easily, and there is no specific drug treatment. If a child has mumps, the parotid gland is swollen and painful, and the baby does not necessarily have a fever at the onset of the disease. If the child has a high fever that does not go away, frequent vomiting, headache, mental depression, etc. need to be alert to the complication of meningitis, should go to the hospital in time for treatment. Chickenpox and mumps prevention: 1, keep the skin clean, more bed rest, drink more water. 2, the diet should be easy to digest and easy to drink. 2, meals to easy digestion, fluid or semi-fluid food is appropriate, anti-acidic food, avoid spicy, stimulation, sea food. 3.Prevent scratching the blisters, which will lead to the skin being infected. You can apply Bactroban anti-inflammatory ointment on the affected area or use stove glycerine water to clean and sterilize locally. 4.The swollen parts of parotid gland can use local cold compress to reduce pain and swelling. 5.Sanitize the air in the room by boiling with white vinegar. Spring diarrhea is most common in infants and young children aged 1-3 years, and rare in those over 4 years old. The first symptom is sudden vomiting, regardless of feeding any food, such as milk, rice porridge, drinks, etc. are all vomited within a few minutes after eating. Even when fed plain water, almost all of it is vomited. Soon after vomiting, there will be an increase in the number of stools, stools are mainly watery, the color is light yellow like eggdrop soup, no sour smell. Some children have a moderate fever of 37-38 degrees without cough, nasal congestion, runny nose or other cold symptoms. Children with abdominal pain are irritable and cry. Vomiting lasts for 2-3 days at most. However, diarrhea lasts 5-7 days, and individual children have diarrhea for more than a week. Stool microscopy is mostly normal or has a very small number of white blood cells. This kind of diarrhea that occurs easily in spring and winter is mostly caused by viruses that are infected, and the most common viruses of autumn and winter diarrhea that have been researched and clarified are rotavirus and other enteroviruses such as coxsackievirus. Nowadays, when parents see their children vomiting and having diarrhea, they panic and ask the doctor to give them fluids. In reality, 90% of children with diarrhea do not need fluids, only oral rehydration salts. Because of the dehydration caused by diarrhea, the infusion will lead to a situation where the diarrhea does not stop after 2-3 days. Some parents of sick children often ask their doctors to give their children the best and latest antibiotics in the treatment of diarrhea. Antibiotics do not have any therapeutic effect on viral diarrhea, but can cause a series of adverse effects. Treatment: Drink as much “oral rehydration salts” as possible to replenish sugar and salt and water, there is no need for oral or intravenous antibiotics, the diet is based on easily digestible food, there is no need to deliberately restrict the diet. Oral intestinal mucosal protectants, antidiarrheal drugs, along with oral lactobacilli active agents and bifidobacteria preparations, etc., to promote digestion and absorption of food, inhibit the pathogenic bacteria that lead to intestinal diseases, and protect the intestinal tract. Spring children’s diarrhea prevention: 1, strengthen food hygiene and water management. 2.Promote breastfeeding, avoid weaning in summer. 3.Reasonable feeding, add complementary food should be carried out gradually. 4, cultivate good hygiene habits, wash hands before and after eating, do a good job of disinfection of food and eating utensils. Avoid long-term abuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics.