In the bath with the child: basic rules

If your child was tortured colds, we recommend to go with him to the bath. It strengthens the immune system and trains the cardiovascular system. More in the steam room can breathe steam from herbal infusions - eucalyptus, linden, chamomile. In the bath is useful to walk in diseases of the skin and the musculoskeletal system.

Children swimming in the bath - is a great way of tempering. During a visit to the sauna on the body affects the contrast of water and air temperatures.

If a child hypertonicity, the bath will calm his nerves and improve overall health. Children with hypertonic restless, often crying, sleep poorly, react to any sound and bright light. For hypertonicity characterized by reliance on tiptoe and pursed his fingers; in older age - "gait skier." After the bath, such children fall asleep right on the way home, their sleep is very strong and calm.

Take children to the bath can be three or four years. Some experts believe that the bath may attend any healthy child, starting with the youngest infants (once a week). First still check with your doctor.

In the first visit is recommended that the child in the steam room is not more than 3-5 minutes (after a few visits this time can be doubled) and 5-7 minutes in the sauna (after a few visits, you can hover your baby up to three times).

Then for 3-5 minutes is recommended to wash the baby water warm or at room temperature. After pouring or bathing - rest for at least 10 minutes. For the first visit to the bath only one cycle (steam - pouring - rest). Undesirable child soar more than ten minutes at a time.

A few important rules for visiting children baths:

1. The temperature in the steam room for children should not exceed 70 degrees.

2. Children should sit in the steam room on the lower benches.

3. After leaving the steam bath baby's body should not be quenched - from jumping into the pool, swimming in the font is better to abstain. The only exceptions are those kids whose parents are taught to hardening.

4. Do not dismiss children unattended in the bath, even if they do not go directly into the steam room.

5. Children must go to the bath necessarily with the appropriate attributes: caps, rubber slippers, terry robe.

In the bath, carefully watch the baby if the baby turned pale or protests, the immediate withdrawal of its steam room. Can not be forced to drag a child in a steam room, as it can get a lot of stress. Try to make a visit to the sauna pleasure, even a game for the kid.

Contraindications. These include acute inflammatory diseases accompanied by fever. Is strictly prohibited sauna or bath in purulent inflammatory and infectious diseases (otitis, sinusitis, furunculosis), even if the temperature is not raised.

When congenital heart disease in the child's bath is best not to drive. You also can not go to the bath and seizures of various etiologies, in any form of epilepsy.

Remember: the effect of the bath or sauna will only be the case if you visit it together with your child regularly.