Essentials of autumn health care for children

  1, weather factors: moderate autumn freezing early autumn summer humidity diffuse, some children can appear appetite loss, etc., it is appropriate to pay attention to the damp dispel summer.  The climate in mid-autumn is pleasant, often appetite, easy to accumulate food and hurt breast; tolerate some hunger, suffer some cold, generations of pediatricians are regarded as the golden rule of child-rearing. In 1294 A.D., Zeng Shirong, a famous pediatrician of the Yuan Dynasty, said in his “Book of the Living Young Heart – Children are always safe”: “If you want to have children safe at all times, you always need a point of hunger and cold; I hope everyone will follow this method, and naturally all diseases will not be related.” In the Ming Dynasty, the doctor Wan Mizhai, in response to the over-emphasis on warm clothes and full food in the society at that time, proposed in “The Secret of Baby Care” that “if you want your child to be safe, always suffer three points of hunger and cold”. Today’s material life is rich, people take in more and more calories, “often suffer three parts of hunger and cold” is more relevant. Cui Wencheng, Department of Pediatrics, Jinan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Late autumn is close to winter, the weather is getting colder and colder, asthma, chronic cough, gastritis and other “cold” diseases begin to appear, we should pay attention to let children withstand moderate “autumn freeze”, cold exercise, but also pay attention to the appropriate clothing for children. The “moderate” should be  How should this “moderate” be grasped? When the child is quiet, feel the child’s hands, if a little cool, palms are not hot, and then feel the back without sweat, that is dressed just right; if the palms are hot, sweat on the back, that is wearing more.  2, biological factors: strengthen protection Colds, fever, diarrhea …… when these diseases hit, many mothers think it is because the child is cold, eat more, in fact, not all right. The growth process of children is also the process of human and microbial interactions. The skin and mucous membranes are the border between man and nature and are the body’s first line of defense. With the baby’s cry at birth, microorganisms enter the respiratory tract; with the first sip of breast milk, microorganisms enter the digestive tract. Microorganisms are partly good, such as yeast, probiotics, etc.; partly with the wind grass, the body conditions are good, it helps you; the body conditions are not good, it causes you to get sick, called conditional pathogens; then is the pathogenic pathogens, such as intestinal viruses, etc.  Microorganisms break through the body’s first line of defense – the skin mucosa, invasion of the respiratory tract, will lead to colds, laryngitis, tonsillitis, bronchitis, pneumonia and other diseases; invasion of the digestive tract, there will be acute gastritis, enteritis and other diseases. When invading the lymphatic system, adenoid hypertrophy, swollen lymph nodes in the jaw and neck, mesenteric lymphadenitis, etc.; when microorganisms break through the second line of defense – lymphatic tissue, they may drive straight in and harm the human heart, liver and kidneys and other organs, of which myocarditis is the most common.  How to prevent it? Strengthen exercise, maintain hygiene, vaccinations and other effective, will reduce the occurrence of disease, the key is to strengthen protection to avoid infection!  3, the emotional factor: the precious is calm Some children will be indirectly caused by emotional factors, because the weather is very obvious to adults, see the autumn breeze, fallen leaves all over the ground, some will be born of the pessimistic mood, depressed mood, to bring adverse effects on children. Many children when it comes to mealtime tummy ache, do not eat, or have the habit of biting nails and fingers, often parents criticize the child at mealtime, angry at the child.  In ancient times, before the meal will hit the bell to play music, music to accompany the meal has been around for ages. In Chinese and foreign history, the emperors and generals, dignitaries and noblemen feast and entertain guests, all play silk, bamboo, wind and strings to help the elegant. The Zhou Rituals of the Heavenly Officials and the Cuisinart” cloud: “to music to eat, the cuisinart to be sacrificed, the product to pay for the food, the king is food, the end of food, to music in the creation.” Nowadays, the practice of medicine and psychology also proves that music has a great influence on people’s emotions. Suitable music can improve the excitement of the digestive system plant nerves, to enhance appetite, to help digestion. Because the spleen is a joyful official, a relaxed mood is good for digestion. Before eating, you should not criticize your child, you should play some music and praise your child. Before going to bed, you should also say something nice to soothe the child, otherwise, the child will easily have night terrors and nightmares. When can I say something when my child has done something wrong? “The season of the year lies in spring, the plan of the day lies in the morning”, after the morning meal can say a few words, it is best to change criticism into expectations, after criticism must indicate the direction, the most taboo does not mention the specific requirements of the criticism, the child is like being hit with a boredom as unable to find the north, light left depressed. Parents should “show the way in the morning, happy before meals, before bedtime comfort”.  Older children, there is a kind of parents headache “strange disease”: holidays or double holidays when nothing happened, almost school, or on Sunday night, emotional irritability, abdominal pain, fever, etc., this is the “holiday syndrome”, appropriate comfort This is the “holiday syndrome”, appropriate comfort, encouragement, conditioning, arrange a good work and rest time, most of them can solve the problem.  There is also a kind of “adolescent fever”, children are often irritable, uncomfortable, hot and cold, the fever lasts a relatively short time, repeatedly tossed. Parents are often very anxious, asking the doctor how long this has to go on. I tell them that this is a manifestation of the growth process and does not require special treatment. You should stay optimistic and grow up.  Why do puberty hot flashes occur? Chinese medicine explains the growth and development of the human body in terms of ‘tianji’, which, if translated into Western medicine, can be broadly summarized in terms of hormones. Life is like the process of airplane flight, birth is the take-off, slowly climbing high, hormone levels from low to high, this process is about 0 to 18 years old; then enter a smooth running period, when it starts to land, is to enter menopause, hormone levels drop rapidly. We all know that during menopause, people will be irritable, sweaty and grumpy, and it’s hard to bump the plane when it lands, and it’s hard to take off and lift off, isn’t it?  The so-called long disease, that is, while growing sick, there is a saying that “fever will grow brain, cough will grow”, parents should have a correct understanding, try to optimistic treatment of children’s “long” and “disease The “sickness”.