Your child cannot go to nursery, kindergarten or school again because it has caught another infection? Do you dream that your child will be healthy for at least a few weeks - so that you do not have to take him to the doctor every now and then or "stand on his head" when organizing care at home? Find out how to strengthen your baby's immunity from the very first days of life.
Don't get vaccinated
In this place role must be emphasized protective vaccinations, which are a very important element shaping the correct immune response of the young organism.
Especially in the current conditions, adherence to the vaccination schedule is the first thing to take care of. And that's before we start to wonder What about child immunity? AND before we buy any over-the-counter immunizing drugs for children.
Season for infections
Strengthening immunity in a child it becomes a particularly important issue in transitional periods, i.e. in spring and autumn. And although recurrent respiratory infections in children are the bane of autumn and winter, it should be remembered that there are at any time of the year.
As a rule, as long as the toddler stays at home under the care of his relatives and has no daily contact with other children, he gets sick sporadically or not at all, and if he does, the infections are usually mild.
After admission to a nursery or kindergarten, the situation often changes dramatically. It can be hard to tell when one cold ends and another begins. As soon as the child can be treated at home, he returns to normal activities and often everything starts again. Parents then feel helpless, and any way to strengthening immunity in a child is worth its weight in gold.
It is important in terms of immunity the type and course of the infection - whether we are dealing with a runny nose, cough, increased body temperature, which quickly subside, or whether the child has bronchitis, pneumonia, sinusitis, ear inflammation, which requires antibiotics.
Moreover, untreated respiratory infections – even short-term, mild ones – tend to be prolonged or recur. They can also lead to unnecessary and sometimes dangerous complications, such as bronchitis or ear infections. And that, in turn, makes us wonder what to give the child for strengthening after the antibiotic.
What makes a child susceptible to seasonal respiratory infections?
However, before we ask a doctor or a pharmacist, what about immunity for a child, Let's have a look reasons for its weakness. A number of factors can be identified here:
- lifestyle and environmental conditions – especially exposure to tobacco smoke and air pollution, dampness in the home, improper nutrition of the child, little sleep, little exercise in the air;
- too high temperature in the house, or overheating the baby;
- poor indoor air quality;
- contact with infectious agents – through contact with peers who can transmit various pathogens;
- congenital or acquired immune disorders;
- atopic diseases – children with allergies are more vulnerable to infections;
- other diseases, e.g. gastroesophageal reflux disease, cystic fibrosis, congenital heart defects.
