Nowadays, the pediatric clinics of major hospitals are as crowded as train station ticket offices. This makes grandparents wonder: why children in the past, food and clothing is far less than now, adults do not take good care of, but rarely get sick; now children, so good nutrition, several adults to look after a, but also three days two colds and fevers. The problem is not in the child, but in the parents over-pampered children, over-reliance on drugs, the result of the child in the sick – medication – and sick – and medication cycle. Today’s children are mostly only child, born in a high-rise, parents love grandparents pain. The best clothes and food, but the canary in the cage, it is difficult to see the day. Day after day, the child’s body is weak like seedlings in the greenhouse. And in these untouched seedlings, and the family’s dream of Beijing University and Tsinghua. Piano classes, drawing classes, English classes, dance classes …… are not yet in school, the curriculum is full. Occasionally runny nose, sneezing, small seedlings like to catch a cold. Parents panic, rushed to feed medicine, double yellow Lian, clear fever detoxification liquid, Contec, cephalosporin, Aci …… can cure the cold medicine are turned out to eat. The fever is even worse, the family rushed to the hospital in a hurry, asking for an infusion to reduce fever, asking for a good cold immediately. The antipyretic, antiviral, antibiotic infusion for several days, the child’s fever is back, but the immune system has also become worse. In a short time, colds and fevers will follow. Think about the mother in the past, one person with four or five children, and go to work, which time and energy to pay attention to the old three cough, the old five runny nose? The children play outside all day long, climbing trees and walls, playing shuttlecock and jumping rope, not coming home until dinner time, and never seeing a sickness all year round. At that time, parents do not know anti-inflammatory and anti-viral, only know how to reduce fever. Which child has a fever, eat a piece of antipyretic medicine will be fine. If it is the countryside, eat a single prescription, covered with a quilt to cover a sweat, the fever will go down. Strangely enough, with such a simple remedy, children rarely get a fever again. Maybe you want to know why. From a medical point of view, every time you get a cold and fever, you can stimulate your body to develop immunity and stop getting a cold for a long time. On the contrary, repeated use of too much cold medicine, especially antibiotics that should not be used, will not only fail to strengthen, but also destroy the immune system. The immune system of children is not yet sound, so excessive use of drugs will damage the immunity even more, and the result will be more likely to catch a cold or fever. In this way, a cold is not such a bad thing. A cold is actually equal to a vaccination, and you will be able to fight it in the future. You may question: so, children should not take medicine if they are sick. no. I mean, to prevent children from getting sick, we should start from the source, that is, from improving immunity, from the child’s life conditioning. The ancient people were very good at raising children and said, “If you want your child to be safe, you have to endure three parts of hunger and cold.” It is believed that children are sick and feverish, mainly because they eat too much and wear too thick, resulting in internal fire, dry stools and easy fever. If you let your child eat less and eat lighter, you are less likely to get sick. In addition, do not keep your child inside the house, let him out more to run and jump. A recent study in the United States said that “dirtier children” are healthier. The reason is that they found that there is a kind of bacteria called staphylococcus on the surface of the skin, so that children are properly exposed to these bacteria, can strengthen the immune system. People also concluded that parents should encourage their children to play outdoors and not worry about them getting dirty. Play is also a form of exercise. Parents today are too emotional and anxious about how to treat their children’s illnesses, when there is no need to be afraid. You observe children in kindergarten. In their first year in kindergarten, they all have weak immune systems, one person has a cold and a house full of runny noses. After a year or two, through the rubella, mumps, herpes pharyngitis, colds, fever and so on a series of baptism of war, the child’s immune system is strong, less sick. So the old people say, “three winters and three summers, grow an iron doll”, this is true. As for the use of drugs, medicine is three parts poison, can not use as much as possible. For example, the simple cold, the medical term for it is a self-limiting disease, it will limit its own development, runny nose, sore throat, fever (or no fever), cough, are the symptoms to appear in succession, these symptoms are to show, and then about a week the disease will be well. So, even if you don’t use medicine, drink more boiled water, you will be cured in a week or so. Then why do you have to carry your child to the hospital outpatient and emergency clinics in a hurry, instead of letting your nose run, fever run, or cough run? You begged the doctor to use the medicine quickly, use more medicine, use good medicine, many doctors will cater to you, because you contribute to the hospital’s income. These children who get into the medicine bottles are difficult to jump out of them at a certain age.