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Eat meat, don't drink milkI can't name itI consider myself a crazy mother, but on the eve of the New Year I become the wise minnow from the fairy tale by Saltykov-Shchedrin, who is afraid to stick his head out of his hole. Only in my case – I am afraid to stick my daughter out of there and take her to a crowded holiday with a Christmas tree and Santa Claus. This is dubious fun – an hour of fun is fraught with two weeks in bed with a thermometer.
Photo: GettyImagesDarya Demikhova, family doctor, author of Instagram-blog about health:
- Strengthen immunity constantly, but stillthere is time to prepare for the holidays. Adjust the power. In winter you do not need to get involved in dairy products and all their derivatives (cheese, cottage cheese, etc.). Many people after a year and a half have latent lactose insufficiency. This leads to disruption of digestion, absorption of vitamins, chronic inflammation. And the intestine is one of the main organs responsible for immunity. According to the doctor, dairy products increase the amount of mucus in the body, while coughing and snotty children have enough of it. Therefore, cottage cheese and yogurt - a couple of times a week. Fruits in winter, too, will not benefit, they should not get carried away. Sugar is another evil, so we will limit ourselves to a small number of chocolates and cookies. But meat, except for poultry and pork, in the cold season is your friend, eat it! "And what about vitamins?" You ask. It turns out that they are not assistants in this matter either. For example, vitamin C is considered to be the main fighter with a cold. It's true, he well puts on the feet of a person who has become ill, but if you drink it for prevention - zero sense. Sport - our all remember, when I was a child, we lived in the yard of a boy Vanya. He was engaged in skis and skated even in severe frost. Grandmothers-neighbor neighbors groaned: you will chill out what kind of parents you have! Only I do not remember that Vanya once did not go out for walking because he had caught a cold - in my opinion, he was not sick at all. All the children were at home with the flu, and he ran around the yard with a hockey stick.- If a child is engaged in sports, then hisImmunity becomes stronger. Checked - these guys get sick less. Regular, but not heavy physical exercises train the cardiovascular system, help the body to better adapt to the temperature of the environment. And if the child has a good thermoregulation, then he is unlikely to freeze and chill. No possibility to visit the section - do exercises every morning for 20 minutes. Useful and breathing exercises, especially children, who often have cough or bronchitis. The doctor advises blowing toy spinners, inflating balloons, blowing off light balls from the table - the lungs are trained, the body is saturated with oxygen.
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The Myth of the Great GarlicWearing "Jewelry" Around the Neckin the form of garlic cloves is almost a mandatory exercise in many kindergartens. And when the uninitiated ask what kind of strange dress code this is, they answer: "You can tell right away - an inexperienced mother!" It is believed that the essential oils and phytoncides that garlic exudes work as a preventative measure against ARVI.- The magic properties of garlic - it's a myth. Like oxolin ointment, which many smear nose. Doctors put the experience and found out that the viruses in the test tube, getting on the ointment, die. And in the human body it works differently: some viruses actually settle on the walls of the nose, but the main part gets inside with the air flow. So there's no sense in it. Mask, I know you! In winter, in transport and on the streets, people are full of medical masks. Will she protect against flu and colds? The doctor is sure - no. Viruses are so small and nimble that they easily overcome such a barrier as a small piece of tissue."It's worth putting it on only one who sneezes,so that the spray does not hit people. My advice to parents: teach children to sneeze and cough in your sleeve, not in your hand! Chihaya in the palm, the child leaves her bacteria and viruses, and then carries them everywhere. Often wash your hands, do not touch your face - that's how people get infected with ARVI. The opportunity to wash your hands is not always, so stock up on the disinfectant gel and antibacterial wet wipes.
Photo: GettyImagesWash nose?It is believed that the daily washing of the nose with solutions with sea water is a panacea for almost all diseases. And I fell for this bait. I do not know how much more I would go to the pharmacy for a spray, if my daughter did not get sick with otitis. And then ENT exclaimed: "They were interrupted!" It turned out that all our good measures are the result of people's distribution for money. Advertising miracle sprays, pharmaceutical companies do not warn about very real complications.— Washing your nose to prevent ARVI is a good ideagood, but you need to be careful. You shouldn't do it every day - this will wash away the protective mucus in the nose. You need to irrigate the nasal cavity while standing or sitting, but not lying down and without tilting your head, to avoid the product getting into the Eustachian tube. Sprays are prohibited for children under two years old due to the risk of laryngospasm, even if the can says "from birth", only drops will do. Do not use jet systems for rinsing the nose, they often provoke otitis. People under 18 are better off not using them at all. Also interesting:
