The change of seasons in spring is also the time when children are most likely to catch a cold. Although the cold is not a serious disease, but improper care, cold recurrence, not only make the child suffer, but also make the parents of sick children worry, and even inattentive, sick children may also suffer from bronchitis, pneumonia and other diseases.
A. What are the causes of recurrent colds
1.Lack of exercise
Children usually rarely participate in outdoor activities, and children who lack the necessary exercise tend to be in poorer physical condition.
2.Lack of nutrition
Children with calcium deficiency are easy to catch a cold, because these children do not have enough protein in their bodies, so fewer antibodies are formed. Children with calcium deficiency often lack vitamin D, and vitamin D deficiency can affect the development of the child’s respiratory function.
In addition, the lack of trace elements, such as iron and zinc, can affect the resistance of children.
3.Air pollution
If someone in the family smokes, children often receive the most harm.
4, oral diseases
The child’s mouth has chronic lesions, such as chronic rhinitis, sinusitis, dental caries, etc.
5.Temperature difference
The change of seasons, when it is cold and hot, will make the child extremely uncomfortable.
6.Contact infection
Generally, children who are prone to colds should try to avoid going to crowded public places because, with the complex personnel there, cross-infection can easily occur and children can easily be infected if they are not careful.
Thus, it seems that to prevent recurrent respiratory infections in children, parents should not buy some resistance-enhancing drugs for their children, but more importantly, take good care of them and change some bad habits.
Second, the nine measures to prevent colds
1.Exercise
Parents should encourage their children to participate in more outdoor sports, sports can effectively enhance the child’s resistance, in this point sports than taking resistance-enhancing drugs more practical, more obvious.
2.Dressing
When the seasons change, the temperature difference is relatively large, therefore, some parents worry about their children freezing, they give children overdressed, the result of this practice often makes the child lose the ability to adapt to climate change.
3, breakfast
It is important to eat a good breakfast, because it can make the child’s body produce enough heat to increase the child’s resistance and ability to protect against the cold.
4.Hygiene
To train children to develop the habit of absorbing before meals and after the stool.
5.Ventilation
Children’s rooms must be open windows to ventilate, parents should not be afraid that children will catch a cold if they blow, in fact, the foul air in the closed room is more detrimental to the health of children
6.Isolation
If someone in the family has a cold, avoid contact with the child to avoid the child being infected.
7.Measures after catching a cold
Parents should let their children stay in a warm place immediately and give them hot soup and milk.
8.Cross infection
If a child in kindergarten has a cold, attention should be paid to isolation and prevention, and necessary treatment such as disinfection, ventilation and bedding drying. In addition, do not take your child to a crowded public place and do not take your child to someone’s house to avoid infection.
9.Actively treat respiratory diseases
Children suffering from chronic upper respiratory diseases such as tonsillitis, bronchitis and rhinitis are more prone to colds, so parents should take their children to the hospital for active treatment of these diseases.
To avoid recurring colds in children, it is imperative to actively do the above nine preventive work.
Third, how to take care of children with recurrent colds, parents should
1.Rest
Increase the rest time and make sure your child has enough sleep to enhance the child’s ability to resist diseases.
2.Observation of body temperature
If your child’s body temperature exceeds 38.5 degrees Celsius, it means your child has a fever and should be immediately cooled by physical cooling (warm bath) or medication (preferably under the guidance of a doctor).
3. Diet =
Children with a cold often have a poor appetite, so parents can schedule a meal when the body temperature is close to normal after the fever has subsided and give the child light, easily digestible food.
4. Hydrate
Especially when the fever is high, you should eat more to replenish the loss of water.
5.Dress and bedding should be appropriate
Don’t overdress or cover your child when he/she has a high fever because, on the one hand, it is not easy to dissipate heat and raise the body temperature, and on the other hand, it will make your child sweat too much and cause water loss. The correct approach is not to dress too much when you have a fever, and you should take off some clothes when you go to bed so that you don’t get cold after you get up, and you can cover a little more than usual, but you should reduce it in time after sweating.
6.Keep the stool usually
Maintaining stool is usually good for the child’s body temperature to return to normal. If the child is constipated, parents can use a corker to relieve it.