What to do if your child is often sick? Usually, children, like adults, get colds no more than 2-3 times a year. And if this happens more often? If a child often suffers from acute respiratory viral infections, sometimes 10-12 times a year, and catches a runny nose where other children remain healthy, then it can be attributed to the group of so-called often ill children.
Usually this problem is closely related to the characteristics of the immune system, and for such a child, even a mild cold results in complications - otitis media, bronchitis, sinusitis. Children's immunity can be weakened for various reasons: poor environmental situation in the region of residence, insufficiently full and
balanced nutrition, hereditary predisposition, intrauterine infections. By themselves or in combination, these causes contribute to the formation of a poor-quality immune response due to insufficiency of both humoral and cellular immunity. As a result, this leads to the fact that the child
often suffers from colds, sometimes even with bacterial complications.
Why is a child often sick? The immune system of children under 4 years old is fundamentally different from the adult. Young children almost do not get sick - after birth they get the maternal antibodies that protect them. They continue to come with breast milk. Thus, we can say that a breastfed baby has passive immunity. At the end of this period, the child's body must begin to independently develop its own antibodies in contact with the infection. This is where the problems begin. First, relatives who bring viruses from the street, work, and other public places can be a source of infection. Secondly, a child who attends kindergarten is often sick. There he has to deal with a mass of various infections, and a weakened immune system does not stand up to this.
Also, the child is often sick if the body has a focus of persistent infection. These include
chronic tonsillitis or adenoiditis.
If the child is often sick, and ARVI cases are recorded more than four times a year, pediatricians will advise taking immunomodulating drugs, and, in principle, they will be right. However, it is better to deal with the correction of immunity, especially of children’s, to an immunologist, and based on the results of an immunogram.
What to do if the child is often sick with SARS? There are several fairly simple steps to strengthening immunity.
The child must fully and variably eat for the balanced development of all organs and systems.
Try to walk with him as much as possible in the fresh air - this is one of the simplest methods of hardening.
Do morning exercises with your child. Physical development strengthens the body as a whole and contributes to the proper humoral regulation of many processes.
Prevent ARVI. Eliminate inflammatory foci in the body in time - visit the dentist, sanitize the tonsils and adenoids.
If you still could not avoid a cold, then try to avoid complications - start antiviral treatment on time.