The rainy season has come us And while we may enjoy it, sitting in our houses watching it relief us of the extensive heat we had experience earlier in the year and enjoy the cool breeze which comes with this season, we do not always realize that it is sneakily affecting our children’s and our health as well.
One of the best joys of childhood is play football for boys and suwe for Girl around in the rain. Look back upon your childhood. Surely, you can remember jumping in dirty wet patch, floating paper boats in water-logged areas or just generally playing with your friends in the rains.
With the arrival of the rainy season. Many unfavorable diseases such as jaundice, typhoid, cholera and other gastrointestinal infections also develop during this period. Children are highly disposed to these infections and diseases during this season. These infections are caused mainly due to fungal and bacterial infections. During rainy season these microorganisms get favorable environment to grow so proper care is required for the small babies.
Below are the health tips put together for you.
1) Ensure to bathe your little one at least once a day to keep him/her healthy. After the bath make sure that you dry your child’s body with a cotton absorbent towel.
2) Prevent your child from eating outside food especially the ones sold by roadside vendors (buka). This season is not favorable for that as it attracts infections due to improper hygiene conditions of the environments.
a. Water should be filtered and then consumed. For small babies boil and cool water and then ensure storage is also maintained. Special care has to be taken for the water intake. Avoid outside water, carry a bottle of water when you plan going out with the baby.
b. Make sure the kids do not play in stagnant and contaminated water as it may lead to skin infections and other illnesses too.
c. Give your child light and easy to digest food during rainy season. Basic reason is that the digestive system is weak during this time of the year and spicy/ oily foods can lead to digestion problems.
3) Wash your hands thoroughly using water or sanitizer before handling/ feeding the baby. Make sure that your children wash their hands before they eat.
4) Reduce your children exposure to rain and falling sick by ensuring that they don’t leave without umbrella or raincoat. Also buy water proof shoes or rain boot for them.
5) This season allow high increase of Flies and insects in the external environment therefore make sure that all cooked food is covered so that the flies and other insects do not infect it.
6) Avoid raw foods and always serve the kids freshly made food. Soups, stews and stir fried or baked vegetables are the good options to use during these seasons. If food is refrigerated ensure defrosting and properly heating prior to serving.
7) Nails are a major source of bacterial infection. Therefore trim nails on time and avoid the habit of nail biting in children; this may give rise to the infectious diseases.
Give your little ones Multivitamins such as Vitamin C and E which will help build their body resistance and charge up their antibodies against virus like common cold and other cold virus.
9) Ensure baby’s clothes are dried sufficiently. Damp clothes also lead to skin infections. The sunlight will be scanty during rainy season and it may not be possible to dry all clothes in the sun. Make sure to iron them.
10) Make sure your baby is well covered, if there is need to take him/her out.
11) Diseases develop when the body experiences a sudden and extreme drop in temperature, which generally occurs when you get soaked in rain water. Taking a shower after getting wet in the rain, helps the body by stabilizing the cold temperature of the body and brings it back to normal by the time you dry off.
12) Diseases like malaria, dengue is very common during this season. So wearing the full body clothes can help you to protect the child from these problems.
13) Usage of mosquito net is important; this will keep away your children from malaria, dengue and other allergies.
14) Wipe floor at least twice a day with a germ free solution. Avoid strong chemicals and disinfectants at home.
15) Ensure footwear is cleaned timely and removed at the entry to avoid carrying germs into the house.
Keep your premises clean and hygienic so that the infectious organisms do not harm you and your family.
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Thanks for this nice post. All the tips are good.
You can also follow this health tips for your kids. http://healthtipsdoc.com/kids-health-tips/

Give the child vit c