Aerial treatments are essential for the adaptation of newborns. Babies are incapable of thermoregulation, and such procedures help protect them from overheating.
Diaper rash and skin irritation may appear under the child's clothes. Very often, a small rash appears. Miliaria is not a dangerous disease, as it occurs as a result of overheating, but it causes itching and disturbs the child. Air procedures will help to avoid the appearance of such problems.
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Leaving the baby undressed for a while - they temper him.
Air baths are an integral part of aerotherapy (air therapy). They improve blood circulation, tone up, promote healthy sleep... After the procedure, children's appetite improves,
It is important to know! Air procedures strengthen the child's body, so they must be carried out several times a day.
How and when to carry out the procedure
Air baths for newborns are carried out indoors and outdoors. They can be full (when the child is undressed), or partial (a regular walk in the street).
How to carry out indoor air procedures
In the room, aerotherapy is carried out in a ventilated area. Every time you change your baby's clothes, change the diaper, it is advisable to leave him undressed for a while.
Since newborns have not yet developed the ability to thermoregulation, the first days they are left naked for 1-2 minutes, gradually increasing the time. At three months, babies can be left undressed for 30-40 minutes.
The first weeks for the air procedures are enough of the time that is spent on changing the baby's clothes, treating the skin folds. In addition, newborns may not be completely undressed. For 2-3 minutes, remove the hat from the head, after a while - the undershirt, and then the sliders. One month old baby is left undressed for 10-15 minutes. At this time, you can put it on your tummy. This position helps to strengthen the muscles of the back and has a beneficial effect on the digestive system.
So that the baby does not be capricious, carrying out air procedures with him, you can do exercises. There is a set of exercises that are required for newborns. You can play with the baby, at the end of the air bath, the baby's skin must be lubricated with a special baby cream or oil.
It is important to know! The child should take an air bath at a temperature above 22 degrees, there should be no draft in the room.
Outdoor air procedures
An ordinary walk in the fresh air is an element of aerotherapy, subject to certain rules. You can walk with your baby anywhere, in a park, in a forest belt, in the yard. The main thing is not to be there industrial enterprises, railroad, busy motorway. It is necessary to dress the baby for a walk according to the season, in no case to prevent overheating.
Many young mothers are afraid that their baby will freeze and dress too warmly. Although doctors recommend counting how many layers of clothing an adult is wearing, and dressing a child by adding one layer.
During a walk, it is necessary to ensure that the baby does not sweat, or, on the contrary, does not freeze. This is easy to do by checking if your underwear is damp. If the child is sweating, he should change his clothes and reduce the number of clothes worn. To find out if he is frozen, you need to touch the baby's nose. If it's cold, come back home urgently and dress warmly.
IN summer time aerial treatments can be performed leaving the baby completely undressed. The main thing is that the child not exposed to direct sunlight... At air temperatures above 25 degrees, it is desirable that the baby most time was undressed. Only during sleep are newborns necessarily covered with a thin diaper. In case of strong wind outside, it is better to dress the child.
In the warm season, you can walk outside with your newborn almost all day. If the temperature is below 15 degrees Celsius, then you can stay in the fresh air for no more than 1 hour. During a slight frost, you can walk for 10 minutes.
It is necessary to accustom newborns to outdoor walks gradually, especially for children born in the cold season. Winter children are taken outside for 2-3 minutes. They have to wear them longer, so many mothers prefer to take their children to the balcony in a stroller. Autumn and spring babies are first taken out on the street for 10 - 15 minutes, every day adding 5 minutes for a walk. For the first time, they spend half an hour with summer children, and each time they increase the time by 30 minutes.
After a walk in the fresh air, newborns have better appetite, they sleep better. Therefore, if it is not raining outside or severe frost it is imperative to walk with children.
\u003e\u003e\u003e Air baths and fresh air
Some scientists compare the value of air to humans with the value of water to fish. There is a lot that is fair in this comparison. Neither man can live without air, nor fish without water. Based on this, according to some biologists, air baths are much more beneficial for humans than bathing in cold water. If you want to know more about this, read our article.
Air baths perfectly regulate work nervous system... If you come home from work stressed and irritated, take an air bath. You will be surprised, but in a few minutes the stress will pass, your mood will improve, you will sleep better at night. It also turns out that air baths normalize blood pressure, improve the condition of the heart and blood vessels.
What is the secret of the healing qualities of the air? Taking an air bath allows the skin to breathe. It is very important. After all, all day long the skin is hidden under many layers of clothing, practically no oxygen comes in. And everyone knows that the skin also absorbs oxygen.
In addition, the air temperature under the clothes is almost the same, it is approximately twenty-seven degrees. When you undress, your skin is suddenly exposed to a lower temperature. This is a wonderful exercise for vessels.
Doctors call air baths the most in a gentle way hardening. It is recommended to use it even for hardening newborn babies. Such procedures cannot do any harm, moreover, they are easy to perform. You don't need anything at all to take an air bath.
You can take an air bath completely naked, then this is a general air bath. And if you bare only the torso, or legs, then it will be a partial air bath.
Air baths are classified according to temperature. They can be lukewarm - over twenty-two degrees, cool - from seventeen to twenty degrees, and cold - below sixteen degrees.
You can take air baths while lying, sitting or moving. Most useful way - it is, of course, in motion. To get the result from the air bath, you need to take off your clothes very quickly. As soon as you feel that you are shivering, if the skin turns blue or is covered with pimples, immediately dress.
After the air bath, immediately put on clothes that are slightly warmer than you usually wear in this weather. Clothes should be slightly warmed up, just do not overheat and sweat. It is also helpful to lie on a hard surface with a roller under your head for a few minutes.
Air baths are best taken just before sunrise. But if you like to sleep longer, try to have time to carry out the procedure before ten in the morning. The course of procedures is one month daily, then three days of rest, and then again repeat a month of procedures. Such treatment should be carried out for up to three months in a row, but if you have liver or other internal organs disease, then perhaps you should take air baths for a longer time. If you are relatively healthy, then the duration of the first procedures can be up to half an hour at a temperature of fifteen to twenty degrees. You can add ten minutes every day until you get to two o'clock.
It is not advisable to carry out air baths in windy weather. This can provoke colds. Especially if you have just started hardening. It is very easy to get sick if you take air baths at low temperatures, and even at high humidity... In case of atmospheric precipitation or fog, as well as in strong winds, air baths should not be carried out outside.
If you are conducting indoor air baths, then these are so-called contrast air baths. First you undress and open the windows - this is the cooling phase. During the warm-up phase, you must close the windows. This should be alternated several times.
Sometimes, at first, air baths can make you itch, or, for example, pain in the abdomen, or other unpleasant phenomena. This is just at the beginning. In time, everything will pass. Do nothing or stop practicing.
If you want to temper your child, be very careful. In babies, thermoregulation is still very weak. Than younger child, the worse his thermoregulation is. Talk to your doctor about this before hardening.
To get started, train your child to breathe fresh and cool air. Let the temperature in the room not exceed nineteen degrees. Don't wrap your baby up. It should not resemble a cocoon either at home or on the street. Walk for at least three hours a day in any weather. Enrich the child's diet with special children's vitamins and dietary supplements (biologically active additives).
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Prepared by Anastasia Kuzheleva
If you are tired of getting sick every time the weather changes, start tempering your body. This will help not only strengthen the immune system, but also improve metabolism, which contributes to weight loss, strengthen the nervous system, heart and blood vessels. But don't jump straight into the hole. How to properly temper - in our article.
Before listing all safe hardening methods, remember the following:
Do not rush to do everything at once - otherwise the opposite effect will follow: you will get sick. Choose a few of the items below and gradually add the remaining ones to them in turn.
You should start hardening only after making sure that you are absolutely healthy.
If you feel that you are getting sick, turn on a more gentle hardening mode, or for a while, give up the procedures from which you felt worse.
Thermoregulation in children is weaker than in adults. Before you start hardening your baby, it is better to consult with your doctor.
1. Walking barefoot
To prepare your body for hardening, start walking around the apartment without slippers and in the lightest possible clothes. Yes, put your home sweaters, leggings and terry robes on the top shelf.
2. Sleep with an open window
Make it a habit to sleep with the window open in winter and completely in summer. open window... This will not only temper the body, but also have a beneficial effect on sleep. In a long unventilated room, carbon dioxide accumulates, inhaling it, a feeling of fatigue arises, people begin to yawn. Sleep in such a room is disturbing - most often nightmares dream.
3. Washing with cold water
You need to accustom your body to cold water from a little - start washing in the morning and evening cold water... The rule applies at all seasons.
4. Drying with a towel
To start hardening, towel wiping is one of the most safe ways improve thermoregulation, that is, help maintain a constant body temperature in different climatic conditions.
Rubdowns are useful for everyone, except for people with diseases or skin disorders.
What do we have to do? Wet a towel with water, temperature 35 degrees and rub the whole body until red. It takes less than 2 minutes. Gradually lower the water temperature by one degree. After a month you can wipe off with a cold wet towel.
5. Air baths
Air has a positive effect on blood vessels and improves blood pressure. You can take air baths both at home and outdoors.
Houses: open all windows in the apartment, creating a draft, and undress. Close the windows after 5 minutes, and open again after 10 minutes.
Outside: It is most useful to take air baths on the move, if it is warm outside, put on a minimum of clothes and go out for a walk. In the cold season, dress so as not to freeze. Remember that you can easily get sick if you walk in low temperature and high humidity. Do not temper outside in case of precipitation, fog and strong wind.
6. Dousing
It is worth starting to pour over individual parts of the body at room temperature. The best time for pouring - morning. Gradually switch to full body douches. If this task is within your reach, gradually lower the water temperature. So, after a few months, you will begin to pour cold water over it. In order not to chill the body, take a warm shower before pouring. If the terrain allows you, go out in the street, of course, in the summer. Dousing in the winter outdoors is tantamount to diving into an ice-hole - it is reasonable only after several years of hardening.
7. Contrast shower
A contrast shower will speed up metabolic processes and improve the functioning of the cardiovascular system. The main rules of a contrast shower are to spray the whole body with a jet of water and not to delay switching between hot and cold water. Start with a few cycles of 30 seconds hot water - 10 seconds warm - 5 seconds cold water. After a week, remove the middle part of the cycle, leaving only hot and cold water... After a week, complicate the task - 20 seconds of hot water - 10 seconds of cold water. In a month you will be able to take a contrast shower for 20-30 seconds of hot water, 20-30 seconds of cold water.
8. Hardening of feet
Hardening the feet is useful both for the general strengthening of the immune system and for the prevention of flat feet or hyperhidrosis - excessive sweating. Pour the bathroom ankle-deep with room temperature water and walk around for a few minutes. Reduce the temperature gradually by 5 degrees.
9. Bath
Bath, sauna - are also good source hardening. After the bath, you can plunge into cold water, douse yourself with cold water, or jump into the snow. remember, that sharp drops temperatures are dangerous for an unprepared body. If you have just started to temper, the item "cold after the bath" disappears. Take a warm shower.
10. Bathing and winter swimming
Swimming in the river in summer is also one of the ways to temper. Rarely is water in rivers middle band Russia is warming up by more than 25 degrees. If you have been hardening for years, try to swim for a few minutes or at least briefly go into cold water during the rest of the year. And for baptism, plunge into the hole.
More recently, we talked about the procedure for hardening the body with cold. There are also procedures such as air baths, the whole point of which is to influence fresh air on a naked body. His healing properties have a beneficial effect on human body... Some resorts practice climatotherapy, which is based on climatic baths. This article will focus on air therapy, veranda treatment, its benefits and existing contraindications.
If you have decided to strengthen your immune system, then air therapy is perfect for getting the healing you want.
By taking baths of clean and fresh air, you train your body to confront the factors environmentadversely affecting him. Fresh air comes into contact with your skin and irritates the nerves. This improves your breathing and oxygenates your blood.
Since such treatment is practiced in resort areas and involves a long stay of patients on open verandas, then this form air baths and received the appropriate name.
On the verandas, people dress for the season. And in cold weather, they use sleeping bags and warm blanketsso as not to freeze. With veranda treatment, air baths can have different temperatures.
Air bath classification
- Warm (t °\u003e 22 ° C);
- Indifferent (t ° \u003d 21-22 ° C);
- Cool (t ° \u003d 17-20 ° C);
- Moderately cold (t ° \u003d 9-16 ° C);
- Cold (t ° \u003d 0-8 ° C).
Air bath treatment
After examining you, your doctor should decide which baths you should take.
Initially, the duration of the procedures is 10-15 minutes at air temperature 20 ° C. Every day, the time spent in the fresh air with this temperature is increased by only 10-15 minutes and is brought up to 1.5-2 hours.
The duration of taking cool baths is 3-7 minutes. Every day 3-5 minutes are added to the exposure time and adjusted to 30-60 minutes.
When taking moderately cold baths. Since the air temperature is below 17 ° C, it is impossible to allow the body to overcool.
The duration of cold baths, which are recommended only for well-prepared people, should not exceed 8-20 minutes.
As soon as you notice goose bumps or feel chilly, then immediately stop taking air baths and immediately get dressed, go into a warm room and drink hot tea.
With veranda treatment, the time for taking air baths should be up to 2-6 hours. In some cases, it is advisable to spend the whole day on this.
The benefits of air baths
- The thermoregulation system of your body is being trained.
- The intensity of oxidative processes in the body increases markedly.
- Muscles and nervous system, from the very first minutes of being in the air enveloping the body, become in tone.
- After taking air baths, your appetite will improve significantly, and your sleep will delight you with its strength and depth.
- Emotions are off scale, and the soul sings along with the body ...
- Air therapy helps with the prevention of a number of diseases: some types of cardiovascular diseases, anemia, tuberculosis, diseases of the nervous system, etc.
It is especially useful to take air baths in places where there is a lot of oxygen, ions and sea salts.
Contraindications for taking air baths
Even this seemingly completely harmless procedure has contraindications. Doctors do not recommend such baths for people with acute febrile diseases, myositis and neuritis, as well as with exacerbations of rheumatism and various chronic inflammatory diseases of the joints.
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The fact is that the layer of air between clothes and our skin usually has a constant temperature of 27-28 ° C. As soon as we get rid of clothes, the intensity of heat transfer and heat generation increases.
At the same time, metabolic processes, blood oxygen saturation, muscle tone and nervous system are enhanced, breathing improves. In addition, blood pressure normalizes, sleep, appetite and even mood improve.
How to take air baths: step by step instructions
- The optimal start time for air baths is summer period, and in the morning hours.
- This can be done indoors with windows open, or outdoors if there is no wind.
- Suitable air temperature for beginners is from 22 ° C. At first, 10-15 minutes is enough, then add 10-20 minutes every day, bringing up to two hours.
- After that, you can gradually lower the temperature. Air baths are warm (more than 22 degrees), cool (17-20 degrees) and cold (less than 16 degrees).
- Air bath is preferable on the move, and clothing should be removed quickly. If you feel chills, get dressed.
- Sweat should not be allowed during the air bath.
- Try combining an air bath with gymnastics or barefoot walking.
- After the air bath, put on a piece of clothing that is slightly warmer than you usually wear in this weather, and lie down on a hard surface with a bolster under your head.
- In addition to morning baths, you can arrange these treatments before dinner.
- Ideal if you can take an air bath by the sea, in the mountains or near the forest. The air there is enriched with phytoncides - volatile compounds with antimicrobial properties. They are also beneficial for the lungs, heart, blood vessels and metabolism. On the coast, ozone is better absorbed, due to which the level of hemoglobin increases, immunity is strengthened, and efficiency is stimulated.
- If it's cold outside, there is rain or fog, and strong wind, - air baths are transferred to the room so as not to get sick.
Air baths are recommended for infants, but they should be carried out taking into account the difference between children's thermoregulation and adults. To make the child well tolerate air baths, teach him to fresh and cool air. Do not wrap your baby at home or on the street. Ventilate the room more often, make sure that the temperature does not exceed 19-20 ° C. Walk with him as long as possible.
People with poor health should start air baths with three minutes a day.
The duration of a course of baths is usually a month, then a three-day break, and again a month of procedures, and so on up to three months. But if there is liver disease or other internal organs, it is recommended to prolong the treatment.
Air procedures are only the first step towards hardening. Having mastered them, you can safely move on to water.