Is it possible for children to have a cold and fever?

During the autumn and winter changes every year, various epidemic diseases also entered a high incidence. Babies are particularly more likely to get sick at this time, sometimes they have a cold, and they have cough, making parents feel anxious:

Children often have a cold, fever and sickness. Is it too low immunity?

How can we improve their children's immunity?

Today we ask the pediatrician to explain the relationship between immunity and illness.

Children often catch a cold and get sick

Not bad immunity

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Whether the child is sick depends mainly on whether there is a pathogen that is exposed to the pathogenic.

Some parents often take their children to play outside, and some children stay at home for longer.

Relatively speaking, the chances of infectious diseases will be much higher in contact with the external environment and other children, so they are relatively more ill, but this does not mean that the child's immunity is weaker.

Children who rarely go out at home are very ill because they are well protected, but they may be sick, but they may go to kindergarten, but they will be more frequent than other children.

This is because the child comes from the relatively simple environment at home to the complex collective environment. When you come into contact with the large number of pathogens that have not been encountered before, the child will be susceptible to illness. Essence

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At present, studies have found that children under the age of 6 have averaged 6 to 8 times a year. From September to April of the following year, the high incidence period can reach January once, each time it may last for 2 weeks.

In this way, a healthy child may be sick for half a year in a year, which is normal. Therefore, if the child does not get sick or sick, it cannot be used as a standard for measuring the strong immunity of the child.

There are very few children with low immunity (defects). Do not believe that you can compare the standards below:

Children are always sick, and grow and develop behind their peers;

You can't improve yourself after each illness, you need intravenous infusion or hospitalization;

Each bacterial infection must use antibiotics above February or above, the effect is not good;

Or the child is severe infection each time, such as meningitis and sepsis.

Rest assured now? I believe most children are not as described as above.

Immunity is either born or mature

Need to be continuously improved

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Immunity is a very vague word that can be understood as the ability of the human body to resist and fight against foreign viruses and bacteria.

The child's immunity is not born, but gradually develops and mature after birth.

This is like a recruit egg. Although there is a gun in hand, there is no fighting experience. You can only improve your experience through battle and slowly become veterans who have played a hundred battle.

After 6 months of birth, the antibody that the mother passed through the placenta to the child will gradually consume, and the weak immunity will gradually reflect.

At this time, children will start to face the external environment (virus bacteria) independently, which will be more likely to get sick.

The child's immunity is also stimulated, matured and stronger in the process of facing pathogens.

Improve children's immunity

These 6 points are important

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Speaking of this, many parents will worry: can they only pass the illness, can immunity become stronger? Is there an ideal state where less illness and immunity are also good?

Of course, some children do not get sick when they are young, and they are not very sick in entering the park.

They are not talented, and these children are often exposed to a small amount of pathogenic stimulation in the process of growing up. These small but not diseases that do not cause disease will stimulate children's immune systems, produce sufficient antibodies, and make them not easy to get sick after entering the park.

Therefore, an important way to improve immunity is in daily life, allowing children to expose microorganisms appropriately, increase the diversity of human microorganisms, and promote the normal development of the immune system. For example: Don't stay at home often, increase the time of children in outdoor and nature.

In addition, the following 5 points can be achieved to help children improve their immunity step by step:

Persist in breastfeeding

Vaccination on time

Balanced diet, reasonable dietary matching

Exercise appropriately

Don't abuse antibiotics

Look at the child's illness on the positive mentality

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Many parents may feel that it is a bit slow to do these slowly. Is there a pitch to quickly improve immunity?

To be honest, there is no.

Most of the so -called magical medicines that improve immunity are placebo, so don't spend that money.

Disease is not a bad thing, it is the only way to get stimulating and powerful immunity system.

The child is a seed, and he will grow up slowly. Every time you have experienced every worm biting and wind and rain, he can make him grow better.

We must let it go, ensure a good mentality, and apply fertilization scientifically for the process of growth, which is enough.

Experts in this article

Kong Lingkai

Cooperative expert

Master of Pediatrics at the Second Military University of the People's Liberation Army

Ma Xuemei

Review expert

Deputy Chief Physician

Plan

Planning: Ai Tongmu

Produced: Hercules

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