Is swimming good for children?

Now if we go to the swimming pool to swim, we often see many children swimming. Of course, many parents now send their children to learn swimming, mainly to enrich their extracurricular life and let them learn some self-rescue skills. Of course, I think there are many benefits, but there are also many aspects to pay attention to, so today let me tell you how swimming can help the baby's body?

It promotes the baby's physical and mental development in the following 8 aspects:

1. Smarter: Swimming exercise can improve brain function, promote the brain's ability to respond to the external environment and promote intellectual development;

2. Stabilize emotions: Swimming can simulate the amniotic fluid environment, soothe the baby's body and mind, and adjust sleep;

3. Strengthen the heart: The buoyancy of water and the impact of water waves and water pressure on the skin can massage the peripheral blood vessels, so that the baby's heart can be better exercised;

4. Improve lung capacity: When swimming, the pressure of water on the chest increases lung capacity. According to statistics, children's lung capacity can be increased by 74% after swimming training;

5. Less prone to illness: Swimming improves children's ability to adjust to changes in external temperature, and the level of immunoglobulin in the blood is higher, making them less prone to illness;

6. Grow taller: When children swim, they can fully contact with water and air, which promotes the absorption of vitamin D and is beneficial to physical development;

7. Well-proportioned body: When swimming, the body is in a horizontal position, which is conducive to the flexibility and toughness of bones and better promotes the growth and development of bones;

8. Help digestion: In order to compensate for the energy consumed by people in water, the digestive system will actively enhance the digestion and absorption functions to absorb a large amount of nutrients.

Poor ventilation and excessive chlorine disinfection may cause damage to the lungs of infants and young children, a new study shows. You need to think twice before taking your baby to learn swimming. Because a new European study finds that babies and toddlers who are regularly exposed to the chlorinated air of indoor swimming pools have a greater risk of developing asthma than those who don't swim indoors. Compared with children who did not swim regularly as infants and toddlers, children who swam indoors as infants and toddlers had a 50% higher risk of developing breathing difficulties, nearly four times the risk of chest tightness, and more than twice the risk of shortness of breath.

Of course, there are many benefits to learning to swim, but the risks are also quite high. The green air in some swimming pools now poses a greater risk of asthma to children. Therefore, everyone should choose a suitable swimming place for their children to learn, and they should also be supervised at all times when they are swimming to prevent accidents.