Parents should take care of their child’s physical and mental health from an early age. Much of this depends on the family’s lifestyle, activity level, correct loads and rest. You need to understand what all these factors should be for a child to grow up active and healthy.
In this article you will find full information on the protection and promotion of children's health.
Organization of events aimed at preserving, strengthening and overall development of the child’s body
Children's health is a complex concept; it depends on a number of factors. Parents should take care of each of them separately. Let's look at the most important measures.
Nutrition
Food is one of the most important “building blocks” in building good health .
But often parents instill in their children poor eating habits from an early age. You cannot force a child to eat more than he wants - overeating is harmful to the body.
Nutrition should be moderate, balanced and with all the necessary substances. It should contain enough proteins, carbohydrates, and healthy fats.
Vitamins and minerals are important, since the baby’s body is just developing, and it is important to give him enough essential nutritional components. Children often love all kinds of unhealthy sweets and chips. You should not limit them completely, but it is important to reduce them to a minimum.
Physical activity
Children need to go to school as often as possible fresh air and engage in physical activity. Many parents do not like the fact that their children cannot sit still, and they scold them for constantly running and jumping around the house. But for kids this is very important. Movement strengthens their muscles and joints, cardiovascular system, improve coordination, increase immunity.
At an older age, many children prefer to spend more time watching TV or playing computer games. Parents should ensure that more time is spent on physical activity.
Take your son or daughter to some sports section. Running, swimming, volleyball, tennis, and dancing may be helpful.
It is important not to force your child to study, but together with him to choose what he is interested in. Regular activity will contribute to the proper formation of the body, improve posture and physical fitness.
Tips for maintaining a healthy baby's mental state
A child’s mental health is no less important than physical health. Please consider the following recommendations:
- It is important not to yell at your child. Children play pranks, and sometimes parents’ patience runs out: they throw real hysterics, remembering all the baby’s mistakes and reproaching him for everything. This cannot be done. Learn to calm down in time and communicate calmly with your child.
- Don't compare your son or daughter with other children- this can lead to the development of an inferiority complex.
- Don't be sorry good words . Many of us tend to focus on the bad things our children do and ignore the good ones. But it is the emphasis on the latter that is much more important for them - this is how the child understands that you are proud of him and love him, believe in him. This becomes an incentive for him. The parents' task is to support him in everything and everywhere.
- It's important to talk to children. They must trust you, and you must trust them. The more friendly the relationship between you is, the better the mental health of the little family members will be.
- Parents are role models for children. Therefore, you need to educate not only them, but also yourself. Any negative actions father or mother lay a certain behavior program in the child, so you need to take care of yourself.
Disease Prevention
No baby is immune from diseases, but with the right lifestyle, this risk is reduced. The following measures are useful for prevention:
How to improve your child's health in the summer? In the summer, it is useful for children to run around without clothes. They won't catch a cold because they will tell you as soon as they feel cold.
Swimming is also very useful for strengthening the body, and we are talking about ordinary bathing, and not about water procedures for hardening purposes (which are also useful). The water in the bathroom where the baby bathes should not be too hot - a little warm will do..
To strengthen the immune system you can use sea salt. If possible, go to the sea regularly. Two weeks will help improve your baby’s health and provide him with reliable protection for the whole year.
It is also useful to swim in fresh water, provided that it is fairly clean.
Features of health improvement in infancy, preschool, school and adolescence
When promoting the health of children, they take into account what age category they belong to:
- Chest and early age . At this age, the baby is completely dependent on his parents, so they must take care of his health and gradually form the right habits in him.
- Preschool age. During this period, it is especially important to monitor the condition of the baby’s respiratory, nervous, urinary system, and ENT organs. Disorders of the musculoskeletal system are possible, so from an early age you need to teach your child to hold his back correctly.
- School age. When a child goes to school, it is worth taking care of his correct posture and visual organs. It is important that he does not spend too much time on the computer or TV, but leads an active lifestyle.
- Adolescence. During this period it is important psychological work with an older son or daughter. The teenager develops new interests, and even problems in relationships with parents are possible. It is important to prevent the child from developing bad habits, which will help with various hobbies and interests, for example, active sports.
Methods used in educational institutions
A number of activities are carried out in kindergartens and schools aimed at preserving and strengthening the health of children.
This can be morning exercises, outdoor games, sports events with or without the participation of parents, which include air and water procedures, breathing exercises, special health days.
Summer children's health camps also host many events aimed at improving children's health.
Kids spend a lot of time outdoors, swimming, playing sports. Must be taken into account physical state each individual child.
A child's health consists of many factors. The sooner and more responsibly parents begin to treat him, the better. It is important to provide everything necessary for this and form the right habits in the son or daughter himself.
Not long ago our children enjoyed the holidays, the warm sun and the sea. But before we could get enough of summer, October was already on the calendar, and with it - autumn coolness, excessive dampness and... seasonal colds.
Moreover, with the beginning school year, staying in children's groups leads to the fact that various infections more often penetrate into the baby’s body.
When talking about childhood diseases, we are used to focusing on treatment. Although no less important is the correct restoring baby's health after illness. What needs to be done so that the child becomes active and joyful again as soon as possible? Which preventive measures recommended by experts to strengthen the immune system? Let's figure it out together.
First of all, it should be noted that immunity is the body’s ability to resist infections and prevent various diseases.
What are the signs of a weakened immune system?
As a rule, the disease after its departure leaves the body’s immunity reduced. Main signs of a weakened immune system child are:
- lethargy;
- fast fatiguability;
- poor health and inability to maintain attention for a long time;
- increased sensitivity to new infections;
In addition to infections, a reduced protective background provokes the penetration of pathogenic organisms and the occurrence of allergic reactions. Moreover, the imbalance in immune system can lead to autoimmune diseases in which immune cells begin to destroy their own tissues.
Therefore, strengthening the immune system after illness is extremely important.
What to do if the child is very weak after an illness?
In order for your child to quickly recover from an illness, he needs to be provided with:
1. Balanced diet , which allows the baby’s body to receive all the substances necessary for recovery. To do this, parents should offer their child:
- light food- it is better to give foods that are easily digestible and do not put additional stress on digestive system;
- complete diet- Vitamins and microelements must be included in food. Make sure the menu is varied and includes all the necessary components. IN recovery period Vegetables and fruits are mandatory in your daily diet.
- adequate amount of food. During the recovery process, the child's appetite will improve, and in accordance with this, the amount of food should be increased. But under no circumstances should you overfeed your child in an attempt to catch up. After an illness, it will be very difficult for a child’s body to cope with large amounts of food.
- drinking regime, which is a mandatory component of immunotherapy. Restoring immunity requires taking large quantity liquids (the temperature of the drinks should not be lower than body temperature). This will help remove toxins from the body and compensate for fluid loss.
2. Ventilation and maintaining humidity. During recovery, it is very important that the room where the baby is located has access to fresh air. Therefore, do not forget to ventilate the room 2-3 times a day.
Drying of the mucous membranes can lead to re-entry of pathogens. To prevent this, you need to maintain the humidity in the room at 50-70%. It can help you to provide it at a sufficient level humidifier. In addition, daily wet cleaning in the baby’s room will not be superfluous, because bacteria and viruses accumulate in dust.
3. Gradual increase physical activity , which stimulates all body systems, enriches cells with oxygen, which leads to stabilization of their work and restoration of immune strength.
If during the acute period of illness the child’s mobility must be limited to prevent complications, then during the recovery period physical activity is encouraged. Yes, you can do it with a child. exercises, breathing exercises etc.
However, the baby does not need serious stress immediately after illness (therefore, it is better to postpone classes in the sports section or dancing for now). In addition, physical activity may be limited according to doctor's indications for certain diseases.
4. Healthy sleep. The child should be provided with adequate sleep (daytime rest is mandatory for preschoolers), because its lack interferes with the body’s recovery process and reduces the barrier qualities of the immune system.
5. Walking in the fresh air. When the child is strong enough, you can go for a walk with him, play ball or other outdoor games. However, you should be sure to ensure that your baby does not sweat or become overtired.
In addition, when taking your child outside, remember that his body is still quite vulnerable to infections. That's why You should avoid visiting crowded places.
The time required for recovery depends on the severity of the disease and its course. If we are talking about influenza or ARVI, then convalescence period usually 1-2 weeks. In any case, after an acute period of illness, a certain time must pass before your baby goes back to school or kindergarten.
How can you protect your child from the flu and boost his immunity?
Today in Ukraine, the use of immunomodulators, immunostimulants and other drugs “to improve immunity” and speed up recovery is very common.
However there is not a single independent one yet scientific research , which would prove that Immunostimulants are effective in preventing influenza, ARVI or colds.
- According to the presenter expert immunologist, doctor Eric Hughes, immunostimulants are used in medicine for serious diseases (for example, oncology), when there are serious reasons for such interference in the immune system.
Not tested by research and recommendation to take vitamin C, echinacea extract or herbal preparations to prevent disease or improve the barrier resources of the immune system.
Ulyana Suprun, and about. Minister of Health, also warns against taking multivitamins to strengthen the immune system: “There is no evidence that they improve health or prevent diseases. It is not recommended to take them “just in case.”
It is worth remembering that the conclusion Does your child need to be prescribed vitamins and which ones?, can only do pediatrician based on the analyzes performed.
To date the only proven method of preventing influenza and preventing its severe complications is vaccination. Doctors note that it takes 2-3 weeks for immunity to form after vaccination, so it is advisable to do it before the end of October or mid-November to protect yourself from the first outbreaks.
Besides, The following will help maintain your child’s immunity at the proper level:
- balanced diet;
- adequate sleep (children over 7 years old need to sleep at least 9-10 hours);
- physical exercise;
- indoor air humidification; frequent hand washing, wiping the table, keyboard, phone screen and other surfaces with disinfectants.
That's why strengthen your immune system correctly, consult your family doctor and stay healthy!
What affects a child's health? Family lifestyle, good and bad habits, level of physical activity, ratio of workload to rest, quality of nutrition.
Today it is important for adults to form and maintain an interest in a healthy lifestyle both in themselves and in their children. This is especially true for those who have been with the baby from the very first days - his own parents. A child’s life completely depends on adults who take care of his health and physical development.
Physical activity.
Incorrect posture and flat feet, weak immunity and frequent illnesses, low endurance is all a consequence of an inactive lifestyle. Physical education and sports are still the key to a full-fledged physical development and good health. Encourage your child to be physically active. Instead of computer games - walks in the fresh air, visiting sports sections, morning work-out.
Proper nutrition.
Abuse of fast food, industrial sweets and carbonated drinks, overeating lead to deficiency useful substances, gastritis, dysbiosis and obesity.
Healthy eating involves excluding foods with suspicious substances from a child’s diet. chemical composition, excess sugar and fat, low content of vitamins and other nutrients. A child's daily diet should include natural products– vegetables and fruits, cereals, meat and fish, dairy dishes.
Walks in the open air.
Not only car exhaust gases pose a threat to children's health, but also ordinary house dust. Asthma and allergies, cough and runny nose are the most harmless consequences of inhaling dirty air. Walk - one of the essential components of the daily routine. Staying in the fresh air helps increase the body's resistance and strengthens it. After an active walk, the child’s appetite and sleep always normalize. The walk should be carried out in any weather, with the exception of particularly unfavorable conditions. At the same time, clothing and shoes must be appropriate for the weather and all hygienic requirements. It is good to combine walks with sports and outdoor games. Children usually enjoy participating in games organized by their parents that involve balls, hoops, or other sports equipment.
Compliance with the regime.
A daily routine is a rational distribution of time for all types of activities and rest during the day. Its main goal is to ensure high mental and physical activity throughout the entire waking period. The regime is built on the basis of the biological rhythm of the body’s functioning. An important part of the regime is sleep. It is important that the child falls asleep at the same time (both day and night). The child’s home routine should be a continuation of the daycare routine, and especially on weekends. The nervous system of a child aged 3-6 years is easily exhausted by prolonged wakefulness, so preschoolers should also sleep during the day.
Following the regime in combination with the correct method of raising children prevents their overwork
Hardening.
Strengthening children's health through hardening increases their resistance to colds and infectious diseases. Systematic hardening develops in the body the ability to adapt to different conditions and changes in the external environment: temperature changes, windy and rainy weather.
Cultural and hygienic skills are one of the important factors in strengthening the health of a child. Under the guidance of adults, children are instilled with a love of cleanliness, neatness, and order. From early childhood, children should be taught to wash their hands before eating, to eat neatly, to keep their clothes in order, and to handle objects with care.
Choose the right clothes and shoes for your child - in accordance with the season, age and physical activity child.
How earlier child will get an idea of the structure of the human body, learn about the importance of hardening, movement, proper nutrition, the sooner he will be introduced to a healthy lifestyle. But if a child is forcibly forced to engage in physical education and observe hygiene rules, then the child quickly loses interest in this. The principle of “do no harm” should be the basis physical education and child development.
Unfortunately, many parents fail to serve as a positive example for their child. healthy image life, since they often abuse smoking and alcohol, prefer watching TV shows and videos for many hours to active activities and devote very little time to hardening, physical education, and walks in the fresh air.
Bad habits of parents directly and indirectly influence the formation of these bad habits in children. About their destructive impact on children's body may not even be mentioned.
Do you love your child? Then it is in your power to make it healthier and stronger, more resilient to negative environmental factors, and more resistant to diseases. Help your child improve his health!
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How to improve your child's health?
What affects a child's health? Family lifestyle, good and bad habits, level of physical activity, ratio of workload to rest, quality of nutrition.
Today it is important for adults to form and maintain an interest in a healthy lifestyle both in themselves and in their children. This is especially true for those who have been with the baby from the very first days - his own parents. A child’s life completely depends on adults who care about his health and physical development.
What affects a child's health?
Physical activity.
Incorrect posture and flat feet, weak immunity and frequent illnesses, low endurance are all consequences of an inactive lifestyle. Physical education and sports are still the key to full physical development and good health. Encourage your child to be physically active. Instead of computer games - walks in the fresh air, visiting sports clubs, morning exercises.
Proper nutrition.
Abuse of fast food, industrial sweets and carbonated drinks, and overeating lead to a deficiency of nutrients, gastritis, dysbiosis and obesity.
Healthy eating involves excluding from a child’s diet foods with suspicious chemical compositions, excess sugar and fat, and low levels of vitamins and other nutrients. The child’s daily diet should include natural products - vegetables and fruits, cereals, meat and fish, dairy dishes.
Walks in the open air.
Not only car exhaust gases pose a threat to children's health, but also ordinary house dust. Asthma and allergies, cough and runny nose are the most harmless consequences of inhaling dirty air. Walk - one of the essential components of the daily routine. Staying in the fresh air helps increase the body's resistance and strengthens it. After an active walk, the child’s appetite and sleep always normalize. The walk should be carried out in any weather, with the exception of particularly unfavorable conditions. At the same time, clothing and shoes must comply with the weather and all hygiene requirements. It is good to combine walks with sports and outdoor games. Children usually enjoy participating in games organized by their parents that involve balls, hoops, or other sports equipment.
Compliance with the regime.
A daily routine is a rational distribution of time for all types of activities and rest during the day. Its main goal is to ensure high mental and physical activity throughout the entire waking period. The regime is built on the basis of the biological rhythm of the body’s functioning. An important part of the regime is sleep. It is important that the child falls asleep at the same time (both day and night). The child’s home routine should be a continuation of the daycare routine, and especially on weekends. The nervous system of a child aged 3-6 years is easily exhausted by prolonged wakefulness, so preschoolers should also sleep during the day.
Following the regime in combination with the correct method of raising children prevents their overwork
Hardening.
Strengthening children's health through hardening increases their resistance to colds and infectious diseases. Systematic hardening develops in the body the ability to adapt to various conditions and changes in the external environment: temperature changes, windy and rainy weather.
Mastering cultural and hygienic skills.
Cultural and hygienic skills are one of the important factors in strengthening the health of a child. Under the guidance of adults, children are instilled with a love of cleanliness, neatness, and order. From early childhood, children should be taught to wash their hands before eating, to eat neatly, to keep their clothes in order, and to handle objects with care.
Correctly selected clothes and shoes.
Choose the right clothes and shoes for your child - in accordance with the season, age and physical activity of the child.
Formation of interest in improving one’s own body.
The sooner a child gets an idea of the structure of the human body and learns about the importance of hardening, movement, and proper nutrition, the sooner he will be introduced to a healthy lifestyle. But if a child is forcibly forced to engage in physical education and observe hygiene rules, then the child quickly loses interest in this. The principle of “do no harm” should be the basis for the physical education and development of a child.
Unfortunately, many parents cannot serve as a positive example of a healthy lifestyle for their child, since they often abuse smoking and alcohol, prefer watching TV shows and videos for many hours over active activities, and devote very little time to hardening, physical education, and walks in the fresh air.
Bad habits of parents directly and indirectly influence the formation of these bad habits in children. There is no need to mention their destructive effect on the child’s body.
Do you love your child? Then it is in your power to make it healthier and stronger, more resilient to negative environmental factors, and more resistant to diseases. Help your child improve his health!
Not all parents know how to improve their child’s health in winter, so we will try to figure it out and help adults. Everyone who has children knows that in winter they are most susceptible to illness, and timely preventative measures for children’s health will help avoid infection. At this time of year, when it is damp, windy and frosty outside, it is especially easy to get sick: wet feet, sweaty back, open throat. Very often children catch colds and become infected kindergarten At school.
How to strengthen a child's body
There are several simple ways strengthening the body:
Indoor air humidification
In conclusion, we would like to advise all parents to follow the recommendations of doctors, this will strengthen children's immunity, not get sick, be active and healthy.
- Ventilation of the room;
- Humidifying the air in the room;
- Vitamins and nutrition;
Drink plenty of fluids.
Ventilating a room or space
Parents whose children attend kindergarten sometimes see how teachers open windows to ventilate the room, this is necessary in order to destroy all germs. Prevention of children's health - strengthening their immunity, increasing resistance to viruses and infections. Bacteria of infectious diseases can multiply quickly; they die from frosty, fresh air. After changing air, they die in 1.2 seconds. In a room where it is stuffy and there is no flow of fresh air, microbes can live and multiply for 10 hours, this time is quite enough for the infection to enter the body. During the winter period, heating devices operate, they greatly dry out the air in the room. This is very dangerous for the child’s nasal mucosa; it becomes dry and allows viruses and infections to enter. Preventing children's health in winter is especially important; in a warm room, the child is more likely to get sick, so it would not be a bad idea to install an air humidifier in the group or carry out wet cleaning of the room more often.
Drink plenty of fluids regularly
During the day, children drink various drinks: jelly, tea, milk, cocoa, but this is not enough to strengthen the body. In addition to these drinks, be sure to drink clean, boiled water. An abundance of water in the body will help strengthen the child’s immunity.
Vitamins and nutrition
In winter, a child should eat vitamin-rich, varied foods: all kinds of cereals, dairy products, poultry, meat, fish and liver dishes. Cooked dishes should not contain a lot of fat; it is better if they are steamed or baked in the oven. Steamed foods contain many vitamins and microelements that are not destroyed by steam.
Prevention of children's health is nutritious nutrition, vitamins contained in fresh fruit and vegetables, dairy and meat products. You can make your own yogurt, cottage cheese, and kefir for your child.
- Eat more balanced, vitamin-rich foods;
- Ventilate the room more often in winter;
- Give your child as much to drink as possible;
- Do not eat fatty, heavy foods;
- Install a humidifier in the room.
The most important thing is to carefully monitor your child’s health, take preventive measures, and at the first symptoms of the disease, contact a doctor who will tell you the most effective method treatment.
Prepared by the teacher
Klochkova S.G.
STATE OF CHILDREN'S HEALTH IN MODERN RUSSIA
Unfortunately, statistics inexorably show a deterioration in the general health of children in Russia. Many factors are to blame. The child’s health is exposed to a not very favorable environmental situation; the workload even in kindergarten increases, trying to keep up with the rhythm of life modern society. Overfatigue, the influence of numerous electrical appliances surrounding little man instead of flowers and trees, a simple lack of walks in the fresh air - the state of children's health reflects the picture of our society.
Today, when the demographic situation in the country has become the subject of attention of the state and the health of children - the new generation of Russians - they have become really interested high level, the situation began to slowly but surely change for the better. But the responsibility lies not only with educational and medical institutions, the main concern for the child’s health falls on the shoulders of the parents.
Unfortunately, the health of children often fades into the background for us. For example, few parents think about the fact that their child needs personal time to “do nothing.” We try not to let our offspring idle for even a minute, or his time is stolen by the TV and computer (useful things in everyday life, but from which it is also worth taking a break). Constant stress undermines the child’s health, the strength of the growing body is depleted (let’s not forget that growth is quite hard work that every child is engaged in) - and now the immune system has weakened and the inscription “frequently ill” appears on the medical card.
Doctors and teachers are sounding the alarm and fighting for the health of our children. System of regular medical examinations in educational institutions allows you to notice ailments at the stage of their appearance and eliminate them without waiting for them to become a serious problem. The academic workload for younger schoolchildren is not so much reduced as it is distributed more competently. Pediatricians in clinics take care of the health of every child up to one year old, regularly examining their little charges, sending, if necessary, to more narrow specialists. Children's clinics, even in the provinces, are acquiring equipment for diagnosis and treatment. Protecting the health of our children is a national issue.
However, the problem of deteriorating children's health is by no means solved. That is why it is so important to preserve and constantly strengthen the health of children not only at school and kindergarten, but also at home. Who else but parents can take care of their child’s health, find an individual approach, and teach their child the rules of a healthy and active life.
STRENGTHENING CHILD HEALTH AT HOME
Considering the loads that fall on our kids, we should pay attention Special attention promoting child health at home. We are also talking about hardening, how to protect children's health. If you think that hardening certainly includes swimming in an ice hole or chasing barefoot in the snow, don’t worry, only thoroughly hardened people can afford such extreme stress, so the child’s health does not require such sacrifices. A good place to start is by bathing your baby in water that is a degree cooler than usual. Then another degree... If you see that water procedures still do not cause discomfort to the baby, gradually turn the water cool (but not cold, not lower than 24 °C). The health and development of a child depends on immunity, which increases noticeably even from such simple hardening procedures.
Certainly one of the most important factors hardening and children's health are regular walks. The main thing is to dress the child correctly. Pediatricians recommend using the “cabbage” principle for babies - multi-layered clothes that can be removed if it gets hot. An everyday rule that works well is that the child should have the same number of layers of clothing as you, plus one more. Remember that overheating is more harmful to the health of children, since overheating more often leads to colds than hypothermia.
Another faithful assistant in strengthening the health of a child is the well-known charger. You don't have to do it in the morning; it's better to choose times during the day to do a few simple and fun exercises. Run barefoot on the massage mat with your child, imitate various animals - just don’t turn exercise into a dull chore. The health of our children is in our hands.
Strengthening child health - these are not periodic events, but an educational ideology, a behavioral base that will remain with a person for life. If from early childhood you teach your beloved child to active image life, a correct daily routine, instilling healthy habits, and doing it in an unobtrusive form, without causing internal protest, rest assured that you have taken care of an additional bonus for the child - health, and this bonus will undoubtedly help you achieve great success in any area of life. Strengthening and maintaining the health of children is one of the main tasks of parents.
