How to Keep Your Child Healthy during Winter?
We will discuss winter health tips for children during the
cold, flu season, and winter season. You must ensure that the winter season
will safe season for your children.
The major problem occurs in children during the winter season,
suffers in nose, throat, and respiratory illness, symptoms like runny nose,
cough, sore throat, fever, cold or sinus infection.
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Tips to Protect Child from Cold Weather
Here are details tips to keep your children healthy in the winter, cold, and flu season-
1. Adjust winter clothes for winter with more layer
Adjust winter clothes for winter need more than one layer of
warm clothes and should wear to your children warm boots, glove, shocks, hat to
prevent exposure to cold.
2. Avoid children contact with sick with cold or flu
Keep your away from those who are currently suffering from
cold and flu. Children may have a weak immune system, affected by that person.
3. Minimize or avoid infection in the surrounding area
Must ensure your living surrounding area is clean and tidy. To
avoid infection you can use the disinfectant liquid. This will protect your
children to spread germs.
4. Drinking of water
If your children are school-going age, take a reusable water
bottle to school. School water supply may contaminate with germs, especially
during cold and flu season.
5. Teach your children handwashing technique
You must teach the children how to wash your hand. There are
7 hand washing techniques. This habit keeps your children healthy.
Teach your children the
simple 7 steps of handwashing technique
to prevent infection.
6. Teach your children how to cough etiquette
You must teach children how
to cough etiquette? How to cough or sneeze in disposable tissue? means
what to do if you are coughing or sneezing, to prevent the spread of germs
while coughing they touch.
7. Keep exposure to cold at a minimum- limit the outdoor
Make sure that your child
gets minimum exposure to cold. Cover with shield your outdoor to prevent the
entry of cold air. Exposure to cold is
harmful to your child.
8. Get immunized your children
Getting vaccinated for your children is one of the best ways to
prevent and reduce the risk of infections. Keep your child vaccinated current,
including the flu shot vaccine.
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9. Warming diet
Provide your child warming notorious diets such as anjeer,
dates, honey, Jaggery, nutritious soups, dry fruits, eggs, fruits, and
vegetables.
A warming diet keeps your child internally warm and improve
the immune system and fight against infection.
10. Keep your child hydrated
Stay hydrated is very important for every individual. Kids
lose more water through respiration.
The Winter season makes children's skin dry, so it is
necessary to keep your children hydrated.
You can give your children herbal tea, golden milk (mix
turmeric powder), ginger, warm spices cinnamon, black pepper (Kadha), and
water-filled fruits.
11. Watch for a danger sign
Keep eye on children, if children have signs of Frostbite (an injury caused by freezing of the skin
and underlying tissues) - skin becomes very cold and red then numb,
hard and pale, grey or blistered skin on a finger, ear, nose, toes,
cheeks, and chin.
And if the sign of hypothermia is shivering, slurred speech,
and unusual clumsiness.
12. Protect kids skin, mouth, lip, chubby chick
In the winter season protect your baby's skin to become dry
or relieve dry, itchy skin during winter. You can contact your
Pediatrician/ child specialist for a recommendation.
Moisturize your children's skin, surrounds lip, mouth, and
chubby chick.
Drying causes the licking to the lip, which leads to
irritation on the lip around the skin. You can apply petroleum jelly all around
your mouth kid.
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Care for your Children with Specific Medical Condition during Winter
During winter you have to observe your child-related to-
1. Asthma
Changes in weather and cold often triggered asthma. Cold air
can result in shortness of breath caused by a tightening of the airways, a
common asthma symptom.
If your child having asthma maybe get worse during winter.
Start the asthma preventive medicine as per the doctor’s recommendation.
You must know about the asthma management plan, in case
your child starts coughing or has asthma-like symptoms and signs, contact
your doctor.
2. Chronic coughing
As per the pediatrician, cough during cold and flu season,
get sick and develop chronic cough in your children. So you must have to take
preventive measures overcome to sickness.
3. Dry skin
Lack of humidity from cold and dry air inside often leads to itchy.
Skin during winter especially around the mouth causes
Perioral dermatitis (inflammatory rash involving the skin around the mouth).
4. Eczema
If kids are suffered from eczema symptoms, with eczema often
red, itchy skin but in winter get worsen. Talk to your doctor, about what are
preventive measures to get rid of eczema.
5. Nosebleeds
Nosebleeds in children during the winter months can be caused by dry air.
Keep in mind that kids can also get a nosebleed when they
have colds, sinus infections, or allergies.
You have to contact a doctor as per the recommendation you
can apply preventive measures for your child's nose bleeding with use of
nasal gel, nose moist.
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