How to prevent colds in spring for children

Spring is a season when it is easy to catch a cold or various diseases. If you are not careful, you may catch a cold, especially young children. Since their immune systems are not very strong, they can easily catch a cold, or even have symptoms such as coughing and runny nose. Many children catch colds during this period. So, what methods can be used to prevent colds?

1. Increase vigilance during the disease-prone period

Once the baby is over six months old, the maternal immunoglobulin in the baby's body is completely depleted, and the peak period of disease begins.

Therefore, babies over six months old need to be more vigilant in their daily care than before.

Breastfed babies may have relatively stronger resistance, but it also varies from person to person according to different physical conditions. Some babies may be bottle-fed and still rarely get sick, while others are breastfed and, on the contrary, get sick more often. Especially in spring, the season of alternating cold and heat, it is the peak season for colds and various diseases. We must pay special attention and take it seriously mentally.

2. Wear less clothes and cover yourself with less quilts

The most important thing to adjust the care method for your baby after eight months is to reduce his clothing and quilts, so that he is no longer always surrounded by a warm and sweaty environment.

The heating in my baby's grandmother's house is very hot, and the room temperature is above 22 degrees. When I first came to my grandmother's house a few months ago, I was always wearing thermal underwear, sometimes even an extra layer of spring or autumn clothing. My baby's palms were often hot. The baby’s grandparents are afraid that their grandchildren will get cold, so sometimes they will wrap them in a small quilt while holding them. When the baby goes to bed at night, his grandmother made a cotton sleeping bag for him. It is soft and warm, but the poor baby is always sweating before going to bed. It is in these few months that the baby has been sick frequently.

After eight months, I resolutely removed the baby's thermal clothes. At home, I only wear a spring/autumn coat and a thin vest. Of course, when you just wake up, you should put on another coat or wrap yourself in a towel, and then take it off when you start to move around and get warm. (When the baby just wakes up, the body has less heat, so you must pay special attention to prevent the baby from catching a cold.) When the sun is shining brightly at noon, even the vest will be removed. The baby's little hands gradually become warm and moist. This is a healthy body temperature.

When I went to bed at night, I reluctantly gave up the soft, thin cotton sleeping bag and changed into a set of spring and autumn clothes. The thin cotton mattress that was originally used to cover my body was changed to a towel blanket. The baby's sweating while sleeping disappeared and he slept much more soundly.

In fact, it takes courage and correct judgment to reduce the clothes and quilts for babies. Girls are always worried that their babies will catch a cold. The standard is that after taking off the clothes and quilts, touch the baby's hands, and if they are warm, the temperature is appropriate. When you are soundly asleep, your feet are warm but not sweaty, which is the most comfortable temperature. The baby's own heat dissipation and sweating functions are not yet perfect. If adults wear too many clothes, they will feel hot, sweaty, and uncomfortable, but this is not necessarily the case for babies. He couldn't speak, so he could only keep warm like this. If your baby wears too many clothes for a long time and his palms are often hot, especially if they are dry and hot without sweating, it is not a good thing. If this continues for a short time, the baby will have heat in the lungs and stomach, which will reduce resistance and cause respiratory infections.

The above is a detailed introduction to some methods for preventing young children from catching colds in spring. Parents must remember these in particular, otherwise their babies may catch a cold if they are not careful. Also, do not feed your babies cold food to prevent them from catching cold.