Daily health care knowledge for young children in winter

Winter is approaching, what are the general knowledge of infant and toddler health care in winter that must be known? Parents should pay special attention to infant and toddler health care because of the weak immune system and the lack of awareness of self-protection.

Diet

In this paragraph, we will introduce three types of foods that are suitable for young children in winter: drinks, staple foods and snacks.

Fruit and vegetable drinks

Directions: Wash 50 grams of cabbage and put the juice into a pot and boil it; wash and peel 1 apple and wash 30 grams of grapes. The juice should be prepared. Mix the three juices and drink in several times. 1 dose per day, can often be served. Effects: Apples are sweet and cool in nature, entering the spleen and stomach meridian: grapes are sweet and sour in nature, flat in nature, entering the spleen meridian and flowing into the stomach meridian; cabbage is sweet in nature, flat and slightly cold in nature, entering the stomach meridian and flowing into the spleen meridian. The combination of the three ingredients tonifies the spleen and stomach, benefits the qi and nourishes the yin. According to the nutritional point of view, this fruit and vegetable drink is rich in protein, fat, sugar, vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin C, B vitamins, minerals calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc and so on. It is often taken by infants and children to promote growth and development.

Main food recipe

Directions: Prepare 50 grams of round-grained rice, 20 grams of peanuts, 30 grams of lean pork (cooked), 50 grams of cauliflower, 50 grams of tomatoes, sesame oil and salt to taste. Add the right amount of clean water to the pot, enter the round-grained rice, peanuts, and cook the porridge in the usual way. When cooked to ninety, add pork, cauliflower, tomatoes, continue to cook until rotten, mix in oil, salt, hold temperature feeding. 1-2 times a day, can often be used as food. Efficacy: japonica rice, peanuts, cauliflower lei taste sweet, flat, pork taste sweet and salty, flat, tomato taste sweet broken, slightly cold. The five ingredients enter directly or indirectly into the spleen and stomach meridian, and work together to strengthen the brand and stomach, benefit the qi and nourish the yin. From the perspective of modern nutrition this porridge is rich in lysine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, lecithin and other substances, very beneficial to the neurological development of infants and children.

Snack recipe

Directions: Prepare 200 grams of round-grained rice, 100 grams of peanuts, eggs, sesame oil and sugar in appropriate amounts. Wash the round-grained rice and peanuts together and grind them into powder, add eggs, sesame oil and sugar. Make cake in the usual way. As a snack feed 2~3 times a day, about 6 grams each time. Efficacy: round-grained rice, peanuts, eggs. All three things are sweet and mild in nature. White sugar is sweet and cold in nature. Sesame oil is sweet in taste and cool in nature, and enters the large intestine. The five substances used together can benefit the spleen and stomach, benefit the qi and nourish the yin. Modern nutrition analysis of the nutritional composition of this product: and drink nutrition is basically the same, but the eggs are rich in lecithin, lecithin, peanuts are rich in lysine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid and oval phosphate, these substances are very beneficial to the development of the nervous system of infants and young children. The last thing to note is that infancy should be breastfed, after the breastfeeding period can be soy, kale, carrots, silver fungus, mushrooms, beef, carp coronary, spinach, cucumber, kiwi, leeks and other foods that are beneficial to infants and young children, parents can choose the appropriate, flexible mix.

Dressing

In winter, you should choose soft and warm cotton clothes for your baby. You should also pay attention to adding clothes to your baby, mainly through the temperature of your baby's hands and feet.

Sunbathing

Proper sunbathing in winter can help your baby supplement vitamin D, promote the absorption of calcium and phosphorus, and make your baby's bones strong and sturdy. The two suitable time periods for baby sunbathing in winter are 6-10 a.m. and 4-5 p.m. These two time periods have relatively weak ultraviolet rays and high infrared temperature, which can promote baby's blood circulation and metabolism.

Anti-infection

Generally speaking, the air pollution in winter is more serious than other seasons. Babies have poor neuromodulation, low immune function, delicate organ mucosa and low number of alveoli, which are easily attacked by germs. Therefore, you should insist on breastfeeding as much as possible in winter to improve your baby's immunity. At the same time, it is important to ventilate frequently, reduce visits from too many people, and keep the air in the living room fresh.

Indoor temperature and humidity

Some studies have shown that the winter room temperature control at 16 to 18 degrees Celsius is conducive to children's skin vasodilatation condition problems, maintaining various physiological functions in the body, so that children have a sense of comfort. Air conditioning can easily achieve this condition, no air conditioning available electric heaters and other heating. While controlling the indoor temperature, it is also very important to regulate the indoor humidity. Keeping the room at a certain Humidity can keep children's respiratory tract moist and breathe smoothly.

Keep it clean

Wash your face

The weather is dry in winter, even the skin of the daedalus is very easy to peel and dry, the delicate skin of infants and children need extra care. In winter, you should use water to wash your baby's face, 1-2 times a day, the water temperature should not be too high, and do not use any other products, such as germicidal products, in addition to products with a mild cleaning function.

Bathing

Bathing allows young children to speed up blood circulation, increase appetite, improve sleep quality and enhance immunity. Parents should never reduce the number of baths given to infants because they are worried that bathing is easy to catch a cold. Because infants and toddlers have delicate and sensitive skin, if they do not pay attention to cleanliness and hygiene, the folds are prone to inflammation. In the bath parents pay attention to control the room temperature and water temperature, generally will not catch a cold.

Sleeping

It is cold in winter, but babies and children should not sleep with electric blankets, because electric blankets will lead to the loss of Yang in the baby's body, so that the balance of Yin and Yang in the body is out of balance, discomfort symptoms, sleeplessness, resulting in a decrease in resistance. It is advisable to use electric heater, electric warm air instead of electric blanket, or fan instead of air conditioning, and cut the power and put a pot of water to improve the humidity or use humidifier after the baby falls asleep.