Contrast hardening of children - procedures that include traditional and non-traditional methods for strengthening the children's body. They need to each child, especially those kids who often sick. But it is worth understanding that hardening is not short-term passion: to obtain a positive result of the procedure must be performed regularly for several months, or even years.
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Basic Rules of Contrast Hardening
Contrast hardening of children is the effect of cold water on a heated body or hot water on the chilled body of the child. Such hardening best strengthens the body, preparing it to a sharp change of temperatures.
Like other laboring procedures, contrasting methods for strengthening the children's body have their own rules:
- gradualness;
- systematically;
- individual approach;
- temporary refusal of hardening, if the kid is sick or weakened (after recovering the procedure, it is necessary to begin again, gradually preparing the baby to the new reduced temperatures).
A contrasting hardening of children includes breaking legs, contrasting shower and contrasting body wiping. Consider each method in more detail.
Contrast foot baths
This method is most used to harde children. The main rule of the poultry of the children's legs is the following: Cold legs cannot be chopped with cold water - they must be preheated. If this is not done, you can get a completely opposite result.
The principle of hardening is this:
- there are 2 pelvis: one with water, the temperature of which 38-40 (42) C (depends on the age of the child - the older height, the temperature above), the other with water, the temperature of which is 3-5C below (for the first time);
- at first, the child puts his feet in hot water for 1-2 minutes, then rearranges them into the cool for 5-20 seconds;
- alternated dives repeat from 3 to 6 times;
- if the child is healthy - the procedure is completed with cold water, if weaken or sick - hot;
- every 5 days in a cold water basin, the temperature is lowered by 1 degree, bringing it to 18-10s.
Contrast shower for children
The contrasting shower for children is the alternate loss of the whole body of the child first hot and then warm or cold water. Such procedures perfectly stimulate the work of the nervous system and strengthen children's immunity.
The contrasting shower is suitable for older children, but if you begin such hardening from 8-9 months of age (for example, with the pouring legs), then by 1.5 years you can already try a full-fledged contrast shower.
The contrasting souls start with morning charging. After her, the child is watered with warm water (36c), starting with the neck and ending with the legs, within 1-2 minutes. Then watered with warm water (34c) for 15-20 seconds, and repeat the procedure again.
The temperature difference must be increased after 12-15 days by 2-3C. After 2.5 months, this difference must be equal to 15-16C (warm water - 36c, cold - 20c). Each procedure ends with a wiping body of a child with a terry towel.
Contrast wiping
The most effective contrasting wiping becomes if used for it. For intensive cooling, mint is used (flowers with leaves are sealed with boiling water in the amount of 4 tbsp. L. Per liter of water, they insist half an hour, flickering and brought to a temperature of 20-22c). For heating, it is used by hot infusion from pyzhma, thyme, fir and pine needles, yarrow. Each component is taken in the amount of 2 tbsp. l. The liter of boiling water, insist, be filtered and brought to a temperature of 38-40С.
Hardening is carried out like this: wet the towel in a cold nasty and wipe the pen handle, then another towel moistened in the hot infusion, wipe the same handle, and in conclusion, it is rubbing it with a dry towel until a slight redness of the skin appears. The procedure is repeated with the rest of the body parts. Gradually, the temperature of the hot infusion can be increased by a pair of degrees, and cold - decrease by 4-6c.
The main thing is to comply with graduality in contrast hardening. You should not hurry to pour the child with ice water, otherwise the consequences of such actions can be deplorable.