Do you know the seven healthy parenting practices?

It is said that "raising a child is a technical job". Experts remind that preventing children's diseases in winter and improving children's own immunity are the key. Recently, a children's immunity health education video titled "1000 Reasons for Getting Sick" has become very popular. This video combines the "Chinese Families' Most Concerned Parenting Consultation Service Activities" guided by the China Health Education Center and hosted by the China Health Science and Education Audio-Visual Publishing House. It uses a humorous cartoon form to simply and intuitively summarize the common children's health problems that parents face. Want a healthy and lively baby? Then start practicing the seven healthy parenting techniques of reliable parents!

A. Keep away unhygienic food

Problem: As temperatures drop, children's immune systems cannot adapt quickly to climate change and are extremely vulnerable to viruses. After eating unhygienic food, most children will suddenly vomit and have diarrhea. Some will also have fever, or respiratory symptoms such as coughing.

Parenting Tips: Don’t ignore food hygiene just because the weather is cold. At the same time, we should also pay attention to personal hygiene and help children develop the good habit of "washing hands before meals and after defecation".

B. Children should be less exposed to polluted environments

Question: Children are often exposed to PM2.5 on their way to and from school during this period. Long-term, low-dose, and repeated exposure to the human body by various pollutants will cause some subtle diseases. These lesions in children's bodies can cause their immunity to decline, making them more susceptible to repeated colds.

Parenting tips: The house should be ventilated at appropriate times. Children should not play in places with poor environmental quality or crowded places. It is best to wash their face and rinse their mouth after returning home from school.

C. Cope with weather changes

Question: The temperature changes significantly in autumn and winter, and improper clothing can also reduce children's respiratory immunity. Some young parents dress their children too little, which causes colds, fevers and diarrhea; others dress their children too much, which makes the children more susceptible to catching colds and getting sick after they take off their clothes while exercising and sweating.

Parenting tips: Add and remove clothes frequently, and avoid adding or removing a lot of clothes at once.

D. Avoid cross infection among children

Problem: Schools and kindergartens are group environments, and if one child falls ill it can easily spread to others, leading to cross infection. Especially for children with low immunity, they will get sick as soon as they enter school (kindergarten) every year, and they will get sick repeatedly, becoming veritable "sick ducks".

Parenting tips: Open windows in classrooms for ventilation during breaks, and students should go outdoors as much as possible. In daily life, parents should try to avoid letting their children go to places where crowds gather, such as supermarkets, train stations, etc. Take your children outdoors more often to breathe fresh air, exercise regularly, and arrange the amount of exercise reasonably.

E. Don't keep your child too warm

Question: Many parents worry that their children will catch a cold, so they create a warm and comfortable environment for them, but this ends up weakening their children's constitution. There are two types of colds: wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds. Children are more likely to catch a cold if they sweat and are exposed to the wind.

Parenting tips: If you want your child to be safe, keep him a little hungry and cold. Children's bodies should be accustomed to the cold and able to spontaneously adjust some adaptation mechanisms to adapt to the changes in weather and climate in nature.

F. Five steps to solve the problem of children kicking the quilt

Question: The child seems to always have so much energy, even in his sleep he is restless, kicking off the quilt when sleeping, so he catches a cold, has abdominal pain or diarrhea.

Parenting tips: Don't tease your child too much before bedtime or let him/her play too hard; don't cover him/her with too thick a quilt or let him/her wear too many clothes; the bedroom should be quiet and dim; don't eat too much before bedtime; don't cover your head with the quilt or put your hands on your chest when sleeping.

G. Supplement nutrition to actively improve children's immunity

Adequate nutrition is a prerequisite for ensuring children's growth, development and health, and is also a fundamental way to enhance immunity. Before weaning, your child should get enough breast milk, because breast milk contains a large amount of immune active substances and antibodies such as lactoferrin, which can resist a variety of viruses and bacteria. After weaning, you can supplement the required nutrients by drinking milk containing lactoferrin. Tian Lili, director of the Department of Pediatrics at Beijing Xuanwu Hospital, mentioned: Protein is the scaffold and main substance that constitutes human tissues and organs, and plays an important role in human life activities. Lactoferrin is the core nutrient extracted from cow's milk. It can effectively inhibit the growth of bacteria, destroy bacterial cell membranes and kill bacteria, and can play an antiviral and antifungal role, thereby helping children improve their immunity.