Pediatric Chinese New Year health care methods

  Chinese New Year is a festive time and children are the ones who love to spend it with winter holidays, lots of good food, good drinks, New Year’s money, games, firecrackers, and the chance to visit relatives. Many babies play like crazy in the Spring Festival. But for little ones, the Spring Festival can easily damage their health because of their delicate internal organs, weak spleen and stomach, immature functions and poor resistance. Every year after the Spring Festival, there is a small spike in pediatric clinics, and the symptoms are very similar: fever, cough, poor sleep, decreased appetite, irritability, and irregular stools.  In fact, this is directly related to the “disturbances” of the Chinese New Year. This is also known as “Spring Festival sickness”. Parents are advised not to indulge their babies’ behavior, but to strengthen supervision in diet, clothing and other aspects to prevent Chinese New Year disease and let their babies have a happy and healthy Spring Festival.  1, digestive disorders: during the Spring Festival, the highest frequency of pediatric “Spring Festival disease” is the digestive tract diseases During the Spring Festival, everyone is big fish and meat, children’s spleen and stomach weakness, coupled with the children’s lack of restraint on food, taking the opportunity to eat snacks, drink binge, eat too much too mixed children will appear accumulation of food, abdominal pain, bloating, constipation, diarrhea. Constipation, diarrhea. In addition, because more food is made, stored for a long time, repeatedly heated when the food is not heated through, eaten for too long or too cold often leads to gastroenteritis.  Tips: First of all, we should pay attention to dietary hygiene, do not let children overeat, to ensure that the food is fresh. Parents should make reasonable arrangements for their children’s diet, pay attention to their children’s dietary hygiene, and do not overindulge them in eating and drinking.  2, respiratory infections are prone to: during the holidays, children are active and often sweat easily, after sweating, the pores are open, if not timely wipe sweat, reduce clothing, wet clothes on the body, children get cold easy to catch a cold, in addition to visiting friends and relatives, each other New Year’s Eve, the frequent movement of people, the flu virus will also spread with the spread of people going east and west. If the weather changes abnormally, the flu epidemic is likely to worsen. Small children have poor immunity and can easily get infected with the virus. If not handled in time, it can turn into bronchitis and pneumonia. Every year during the Chinese New Year, there is a significant increase in the number of children with respiratory tract infections visiting pediatric clinics.  Tips: Pay attention to the opening of windows and ventilation in homes and public places, pay attention to personal hygiene, drink more water, eat vitamin-rich foods, sleep, and increase and decrease clothing with temperature changes. Once the flu epidemic occurs, you should reduce the number of activities outside, visit friends and relatives, and go to public places as little as possible.  3, sleep disorders, emotional abnormalities: Every Chinese New Year, friends and relatives often visit the door, fireworks and firecrackers are lively. Babies are not only unusually excited during the day, but also refuse to sleep on time at night, and the sleep routine that mothers have worked so hard to get their babies into is instantly broken.  In addition to the increase in visits to friends and relatives, parents will also take their children to visit relatives more frequently during the holidays, and will come into contact with many strangers in unfamiliar environments. Babies do not adapt to these unfamiliar environments, it is easy to produce psychological stress, some irritable performance. If the unfamiliar environment also contains some undesirable factors, such as excessive light, excessive noise, abnormal odor, etc., it will directly produce adverse stimulation to the child, which may affect the child’s sleep, manifested as difficulty in falling asleep, sleep restlessness, lack of time, dreamy awakening, etc.  Tips: During the holiday season, for small children who are easily frightened, the sound of firecrackers outdoors can easily disrupt the child’s sleep. It is recommended that parents close the doors and windows to minimize the noise outside the house as much as possible, or stuff a cotton ball in the baby’s ear, or even take the child to a city where firecrackers are banned for a few days. If the child does not react well to the sound of firecrackers, general reassurance will suffice. After the hustle and bustle of Chinese New Year has quieted down, to help your child return to his or her daily routine, try advancing his or her bedtime a little bit, but don’t ask your child to sleep an hour or two earlier than usual all at once. 0.5 to 1 hour before your baby goes to sleep, you should let your baby quiet down, do not play too excitedly before bedtime, and do not tease your baby excessively. Do not watch stimulating TV programs, do not tell tense and scary stories, and do not play with new toys, and it is best that these bedtime activities are habit-forming before the holidays. It is recommended that parents do not disrupt their children’s normal work and rest schedule because of the holidays, and if there are guests at home, relatives walking around to pay their respects, parents should prepare a good environment for their children to sleep well in advance, to prevent post-holiday syndrome.  4, accidental injuries: Spring Festival holiday, friends and family dinner, adults to entertain visitors, or busy having fun, often neglected to take care of children, resulting in some children have accidents, the most common is foreign body inhalation, the incidence of children’s tracheal foreign bodies rose significantly, foreign bodies to pistachios, walnuts, peanuts, melon seeds and other dried fruits. Bronchial foreign bodies are usually parents feed their children peanuts, melon seeds, children crying, playing when playing or children running and jumping in eating nuts, tracheal foreign bodies is a very urgent situation, must be immediately sent to the hospital or timely surgical treatment. In addition, the Chinese New Year period is often dangerous is when children set off firecrackers, it is easy to collapse hands and eyes.  Tips: Adults should not scare, amuse or scold children while they are eating, so that they do not laugh or cry and breathe food into their trachea. Try not to give children under 3 years old to eat peanuts, melon seeds and other nuts, if eaten with care. Children should be taught not to play with small toys and other odds and ends in their mouths to prevent them from accidentally inhaling foreign bodies in the trachea.  Warn them not to play with fire, climb high, or climb trees to avoid burns and falls. Avoid children’s contact with dangerous objects, such as hot water bottles, hot pots, household appliances, matches, lighters, knives, scissors, etc. should be put in places where children can not get. Pay attention to the safety of children’s indoor and outdoor activities to prevent falls from heights, running and jumping, or tripping and falling over objects. Take care of medicines, rodenticides, disinfectants, insecticides and other chemicals in your home to prevent poisoning caused by accidental ingestion by children. Educate children about safety, especially firecrackers, and adults must be present to guide them, and never let them burn alone.