Hardening - is an attempt to counter the body's natural child uncomfortable temperatures and environmental phenomena. What is it for? To normal draft or cold air in the street from becoming a cause of acute respiratory diseases or colds. Specific contraindications to hardening, in principle, no, but if the parents have doubts, it would be useful to consult with your pediatrician. Many people traditionally believe that the hardening of young children - is a kind of one-off situation, when the procedure is simply to dive into the hole or walking in the snow on bare feet - and all this a couple of times a year. Of course, this situation has nothing to do with the hardening. Parents try to wrap up with the birth of the baby warm, especially in winter or in cold weather. And the house many caring parents hold the child at temperatures above 23 degrees, which pediatricians strongly recommend that babies up to a year.
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As can be quenched?
Hardening - a long-term process, which is more similar to the way of life in general, rather than to any particular procedure. Few people know that the usual dressing the baby is still in the hospital ward - this is the initial stage of hardening. More specifically - is a type of hardening of young children - air baths.
Thus, hardening is divided into:
- air;
- water;
- sunny.
That is, tempering should last all year round, just a combination of these methods of quenching. Summer child should receive long walks, and in any weather, not only in sunny and warm. But it is early age best predisposes the child's body to such a confrontation to external factors. So, tempering infants begins with:
- have a good mood;
- bathing water with a temperature of 38-28 degrees;
- for children from 2 years - from receiving the allowable rate of ice cream (the best way to tempering the throat tissues);
- barefoot walk (walk barefoot on the cold floor, and can be helpful, but do not sit booty on this floor);
- for babies up to 6 months - stay without diaper or clothes for 5-10 minutes (but, again, during the game with a good mood).
What are the rules of hardening?
Among the basic rules for tempering, pediatricians are allocated as follows:
- it is necessary to follow the clear regulations and the routine of the day (sleep, meals, walking, swimming, games). All these ordinary processes should occur at approximately the same time during the day;
- if parents want to harde the children's children in early age, then reduce the temperature of the water during pouring, it is necessary very gradually, almost imperceptibly, but after a while you can see a significant difference in water temperatures at the beginning of hardening and at the existing stage;
- walking on the sand, in the river / sea water with barefoot (to check whether legs did not stop, you need to lose the heel, if it is after that red, it means everything is in order);
- wiping after receiving a bath with a terry glove until leather reddening;
- it is impossible to throw a child against his desire.
Hardening for kids is a good way to strengthen the immunity and protective abilities of a children's body. A good start in the development of the organism's counteractive forces to external environmental factors and a properly folded lifestyle since childhood is a guarantee of good human health for life. Of course, hardening children's children does not guarantee life without illness, but their number, duration, frequency at hardening is significantly reduced.