You cannot protect your child from all diseases. Often, parents attach too much, exaggerated importance to some factor, not noticing other, more important things. For example, many parents know how dangerous X-rays are for children’s health, while allowing children to walk without a cap under the hot sun, a natural source of radiation, to use mobile phones and tablets at an early age, forgetting that their radiation is also very dangerous. Sweet carbonated water negatively affects the health of the teeth, endocrine system and gastrointestinal tract, but at the same time, parents forget that tap water is no less dangerous; it contains large amounts of chlorine and other harmful substances.
Vigilance of parents, their education and interest in children’s health has a significant impact on the formation of a child’s good health.
The main sources of children’s health problems are:
- Poor quality water. It can cause poisoning, allergic reaction or intoxication. In addition, causative agents of such dangerous diseases as hepatitis A, dysentery, rotavirus infection, etc. can get into the water. Remember that there is a vaccine to prevent hepatitis A and rotavirus.
- Unhealthy diet. Frequent consumption of hamburgers with fried meat from McDonald’s, sweet soda and candy can lead not only to obesity, but also to vitamin deficiency, dysbacteriosis, diabetes and atherosclerosis. Instead of sweets, it is better to eat fruits, and instead of bakery products – porridge, pasta or potatoes. Also, children should reduce their consumption of fried food. Boil, bake or steam your meals instead.
- Sedentary lifestyle. In today’s world, both at school and at home, children are not very active, with the exception of physical education classes or walks and excursions, so parents should be concerned that their child spends enough time on sports, and not sitting in front of the TV or playing games on the phone or tablet . By playing sports, the child becomes more durable and stronger, which has a beneficial effect on his immunity, gastrointestinal tract and bronchopulmonary system.
- Harmful habits. For the sake of children’s health, parents should get rid of bad habits. But already at school, the children themselves, wanting to seem more mature, start smoking and often drink alcoholic beverages. It goes without saying that smoking increases the risk of developing lung cancer and makes the skin dull and ugly, and alcohol leads to disorders of the nervous system and depression, so parents should know the interests of their child and the interests of his friends. If it so happened that your child developed depression, then you should visit a doctor and take antidepressants according to age, for example, Tofranil (from the age of seven) or Depsol (from the age of six).
- Dirty air. In the modern world, the majority of the planet’s population lives in dirty cities, where there are many exhaust gases and emissions from various factories and plants. It is very important to ensure that the child spends as little time as possible near highways and industrial enterprises, and that the room in which he lives is regularly wet cleaned and there are indoor flowers.