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Eat meat, do not drink milk I can not call myselfa crazy mother, but on the threshold of the New Year I become a wise squeaker from the tales of Saltykov-Shchedrin, who is afraid to lean out of the hole. Only in my case - I'm afraid to stick my daughter out of there and take me to a crowded holiday with a Christmas tree and Santa Claus. Doubtful this 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:
- You need to strengthen the immune system constantly, but alsothere is time to prepare for the holidays. Adjust your diet. In winter, you do not need to get carried away with dairy products and all their derivatives (cheese, cottage cheese, etc.). Many people develop latent lactose deficiency after a year and a half. This leads to disruption of digestion processes, absorption of vitamins, and chronic inflammation. And the intestines are one of the main organs responsible for immunity. According to the doctor, dairy products increase the amount of mucus in the body, and coughing and snotty children already have enough of it. Therefore, curds and kefir - a couple of times a week. Fruits in the winter will also not do good, you should not get carried away with them. Sugar is another evil, so we'll limit ourselves to a small amount of sweets and cookies. But meat, except for poultry and pork, in the cold season is your friend, eat to your health! "But what about vitamins?" - you ask. It turns out that they are not assistants in this matter. For example, vitamin C is considered to be the main fighter against colds. It is true, it puts an already sick person on his feet well, but if you drink it for prevention, there is zero sense. Sport is our everything I remember when I was a child, a boy Vanya lived in our yard. He went in for skiing and even skated in severe frost. Grandmothers-neighbors groaned: you will get a sheet, what kind of parents do you have! Only I don’t remember that Vanya once did not go out for a walk due to the fact that he had a cold - in my opinion, he didn’t get sick at all. All the children were at home with the flu, and he was running 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 your neckthe form of cloves of garlic - this is almost an obligatory exercise in many kindergartens. And to the question of the uninitiated, what a strange dress code, they answer: "Immediately visible - an inexperienced mother!" It is believed that essential oils and phytoncides, which exude garlic, work as prevention of ARVI.- The magical properties of garlic is a myth.As well as oxolinic ointment, which many people put on their nose. Doctors set up an experiment and found out that viruses in a test tube, getting on the ointment, die. But in the human body it works differently: some of the viruses really settle on the walls of the nose, but the main part gets inside with the air stream. So there is no point in it. Mask, I know you! In winter, the transport and the streets are full of people in medical masks. Will it protect against flu and colds? The doctor is sure - no. Viruses are so small and nimble that they can easily overcome such an obstacle as a small piece of tissue.- It should only be worn on the one who sneezes,so that people do not get sprayed. My advice to parents: teach children to sneeze and cough not in the arm, but in the sleeve! Sneezing into the palm, the child leaves bacteria and viruses on it, and then spreads them everywhere. Wash your hands more often, do not touch your face - this is how people become infected with SARS. It is not always possible to wash your hands, so stock up on 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.- Rinse nose for ARVI preventiongood, only you need to be more careful. Every day it should not be done - so the protective mucus is washed off in the nose. Irrigate the nasal cavity by standing or sitting, only not lying and without tilting the head to avoid getting the money into the Eustachian tube. Children under two years of sprays are banned because of the risk of laryngospasm, even if the balloon says "from birth", only droplets will do. Do not use jet systems to wash the nose, they often provoke otitis. People under 18 years of age should not be used at all. Also interesting:
