About flights and travels with a child
- My daughter is six months old. We live in central Russia and want to go to Sochi. At what age can you take a child to a resort?
- The age of the baby does not matter. As a rule, children who do not have chronic diseases of the heart and blood vessels, easily adapt to any conditions, if the parents do not commit standard nonsense. Often when adapting a child for a while loses his appetite. At this time, it is important not to shove food into it. If you have come somewhere, where there is heat and sea in winter, do not immediately get into the water for several hours in a row, do not sit on the beach all day. Then no acclimatization is needed. The main thing is that before the trip you should ask yourself such questions: what conditions will you have when traveling, where will you live, will you be able to protect your child from the sun and heat, do you have medical insurance, where can you go for medical assistance? If you have given adequate answers to these questions, then go ahead. You don’t even need to collect the first-aid kit, there are the same pharmacies in Sochi as in your city.
Photo: personal archive – From what age can you fly with a child on an airplane and how often?- This is the most exciting of the questions about travel.If the baby is over two weeks old, he or she can travel by plane without fear. There are two risks that you need to know about. The air on the plane is very dry with humidity below 20%, so the mucous membranes dry out. If there is snot, they will turn into boogers, and the baby will not be able to breathe. Parents should take saline drops with them on the flight (there are a huge number of them in pharmacies) and periodically drip them into the nose. And give them drinks more often so that the mouth does not dry out. During landing (precisely landing!), due to the pressure drop, a spasm of the auditory tube can occur and lead to ear pain and the development of otitis. Therefore, if there are adenoids, chronic ear diseases, a tendency to otitis, then before landing you need to drip children's vasoconstrictor drops into the nose. You can fly as often as you want. If the family can afford to travel by plane once a month all year round - for God's sake. The child will endure 24 round trips in clover.
About hardening and cold
– I want to harden my seven-year-old daughter. How to do it correctly?- Unfortunately, many mothers perceiveHardening as a one-time event – fooling around for 23 hours 45 minutes, and then jumping in cold water for 15 minutes to ease their conscience: “We are such great mothers, we harden our child; however, he still gets sick.” Start not with hardening, but with the basic rules of a healthy life. First: never force the child to eat. Second: the child chooses his own clothes. If he is sweaty, then it is the adults’ fault, because they put extra blouses on him. Gradually lower the temperature of the water for bathing, do not close the door to the bathroom, do not wipe the child dry. Try to tear your butt off the sofa once more and spend the evening running and jumping with the child in the fresh air. This is the essence of normal life. If the child often has tonsillitis and sore throats, one of the most effective ways to harden the oral cavity and tonsils is regular contact with the cold. Buy some ice cream and give it to your baby as medicine – a teaspoon three times a day. Let him hold the treat in his mouth, count to 10 and only then swallow it. After five days, double the dose. So gradually increase the amount of ice cream eaten to two servings a day. In six months, all tonsillitis will end. It is also useful to know:
