Air procedures are necessary for the adaptation of newborns. Babies are not capable of thermoregulation, and such procedures help protect them from overheating.
Under the clothes, the child may develop diaper rash, skin irritation. Very often there is a small rash. Miliaria is not a dangerous disease, as it occurs as a result of overheating, but it causes itching and bothers the child. Air procedures will help to avoid the occurrence of such problems.
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Leaving the baby undressed for a short time - harden 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 normal walk on the street).
How to carry out air procedures indoors
In the room, aerotherapy is carried out in a ventilated area. Every time you change your baby, change the diaper, it is advisable to leave him undressed for a while.
Since newborns have not yet developed the ability to thermoregulate, 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 carrying out air procedures are sufficient for the time spent on dressing the baby, processing skin folds. In addition, newborns can not be completely undressed. For 2-3 minutes, remove the cap from the head, after a while - the vest, and then the sliders. A monthly baby is left undressed for 10-15 minutes. At this time, it can be put on the tummy. This posture strengthens the back muscles and has a beneficial effect on the digestive system.
So that the baby is not capricious, carrying out air procedures with him, you can do exercises. There is a set of exercises that is mandatory for newborns. You can play with the baby, at the end of the air bath, the child'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.
Air procedures on the street
An ordinary walk in the fresh air is an element of aerotherapy, subject to certain rules. You can walk with the baby anywhere, in the park, forest belt, in the yard. The main thing is that there should not be industrial enterprises, railway, busy motorway. It is necessary to dress the baby for a walk according to the season, in no case should overheating be allowed.
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 has, and dressing a child by adding one layer.
During the walk, it is necessary to ensure that the baby does not sweat, or vice versa, does not freeze. This is easy to do by checking if the underwear is damp. If the child is sweating, it should be changed and reduce the number of things worn. To find out if he is cold, you need to touch the baby's nose. If it's cold, hurry back home and dress warmly.
AT summer time air procedures can be carried out, leaving the baby completely undressed. The main thing is that the child was not exposed to direct sunlight. At air temperatures above 25 degrees, it is desirable that the baby most time was undressed. Only during sleep, newborns must be covered with a thin diaper. If the wind is strong outside, it is better to dress the child.
In the warm season, you can walk outside with a 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 walks in the fresh air gradually, especially for children born in the cold season. Winter children are taken outside for 2-3 minutes. They take longer to put on, so many mothers prefer to take their children in a stroller to the balcony. Autumn and spring babies are taken outside for 10-15 minutes at first, adding 5 minutes for a walk every day. For the first time with summer children, they walk for half an hour, and each time they increase the time by 30 minutes.
After a walk in the fresh air, newborns improve their appetite, they sleep more soundly. So if it's not raining outside or hard frost it is necessary to walk with children.
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Some scientists compare the value of air for humans with the value of water for fish. There is much fairness in this comparison. No man can live without air, nor a 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 the work nervous system. If you come home from work in a tense and irritated state, take an air bath. You will be surprised, but after a few minutes the tension will pass, your mood will improve, you will sleep better at night. It also turns out that air baths normalize blood pressure, help improve the condition of the heart and blood vessels.
What is the secret of the healing qualities of the air? Taking an air bath, we allow the skin to breathe. It is very important. After all, for days on end, the skin is hidden under many layers of clothing, oxygen is practically not supplied. And everyone knows that the skin also absorbs oxygen.
In addition, under the clothes, the air temperature is almost the same, it is approximately twenty-seven degrees. When you undress, the skin is suddenly exposed to a lower temperature. This is a wonderful exercise for blood 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 cause any harm, and besides, they are easy to perform. Nothing is needed to take an air bath.
You can take an air bath completely naked, then it is a general air bath. And if you expose only the torso, or legs, then this will be a partial air bath.
Air baths are divided by temperature. They can be warm - more than twenty-two degrees, cool - from seventeen to twenty degrees and cold - below sixteen degrees.
You can take air baths lying down, sitting or moving. Most useful way It is, of course, in motion. In order for the air bath to have a result, you need to take off your clothes very quickly. As soon as you feel that you are shivering, if the skin turns blue or becomes covered with pimples, dress immediately.
After the air bath, you should immediately put on clothes that are slightly warmer than you usually wear in such weather. Clothing should be slightly warm, but in no case should you overheat and sweat. In addition, it is useful 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 o'clock 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 up to three months in a row, but if you have a disease of the liver or other internal organs, then you may need to 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 reach two hours.
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 a low temperature, and even at high humidity. In the event of precipitation or fog, as well as strong winds, air baths should not be carried out outdoors.
If you carry out air baths indoors, then these are the so-called contrast air baths. First you undress and open the windows - this is the cooling phase. During the warming phase, you must close the windows. So it should be alternated several times.
Sometimes, at first, air baths can make you want to itch or, for example, pain in the abdomen, or other unpleasant phenomena. This is only at first. In time, everything will pass. Don't do anything and don't stop.
If you want to harden your child, be very careful. In babies, thermoregulation is still very weak. How younger child the worse his thermoregulation. Before starting hardening, talk about this with your doctor.
First, teach your child to breathe fresh and cool air. Let the temperature in the room not exceed nineteen degrees. Don't wrap your baby. Neither at home nor on the street, he should not resemble a cocoon. Walk at least three hours a day in any weather. Enrich your child's diet with special children's vitamins and dietary supplements (biologically active supplements).
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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 do not immediately jump into the hole. How to temper properly - in our article.
Before listing all the 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 following items and gradually add the rest 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 temporarily refuse the procedures that made you feel 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, home sweaters, leggings and terry dressing gowns put away on the topmost 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 not only hardens the body, but also has 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.
3. Washing with cold water
You need to accustom your body to cold water from a small point - start washing yourself in the mornings and evenings cold water. The rule applies in all seasons.
4. Towel rubdown
To start hardening, wiping with a towel is one of the most safe ways improve thermoregulation, i.e. help maintain a constant body temperature in various climatic conditions.
Rubdowns are beneficial to everyone, except for people with diseases or skin disorders.
What do we have to do? Wet a towel with water at a temperature of 35 degrees and rub the whole body to redness. It takes less than two minutes. Gradually lower the temperature of the water by one degree. After a month, you can wipe yourself 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 on the street.
Houses: open all the windows in the apartment, creating a draft, and undress. Close the windows after 5 minutes and open them again after 10 minutes.
On the street: it is most useful to take air baths in motion, 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. It should be remembered that you can easily get sick if you walk in low temperature and high humidity. Do not harden outdoors in case of rain, fog and strong winds.
6. Pouring
It is worth starting to pour over individual parts of the body at room temperature. The best time for dousing - morning. Gradually move on to dousing the whole body. If this task is up to you, gradually lower the temperature of the water. So, after a few months, you will begin to douse yourself with cold water. In order not to chill the body, take a warm shower before dousing. If the terrain allows you, go outside to pour yourself, of course, in the summer. Pouring on the street in winter is equivalent 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 stream of water and not delay the switching of 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 the hot and cold water. After a week, complicate the task - 20 seconds of hot water - 10 seconds of cold. In a month you will be able to take a contrast shower 20-30 seconds of hot water, 20-30 seconds of cold.
8. Hardening feet
It is useful to harden the feet both for the general strengthening of the immune system, and for the prevention of flat feet or hyperhidrosis - excessive sweating. Fill the tub ankle-deep with water at room temperature and walk around in it for a few minutes. Gradually lower the temperature 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 for an unprepared organism are dangerous. If you have just begun to harden, the item “cold after the bath” is no longer needed. Take a warm shower.
10. Bathing and winter swimming
Swimming in the river in the summer is also one of the ways to temper. Rarely, when the water in the rivers middle lane Russia warms up by more than 25 degrees. If you have been hardening for more than a year, 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.
Most 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 beneficial effect on human body. Some resorts practice climatotherapy, which is based on climatic baths. This article will focus on air therapy, verandah treatment, its benefits and existing contraindications.
If you decide to strengthen your immunity, then air therapy is perfect in order to get the desired recovery.
By taking baths in pure and fresh air, you train your body to withstand the factors environment that adversely affect him. Fresh air comes into contact with your skin and irritates its nerve endings. Due to this, your breathing improves and the blood is saturated with oxygen.
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.
Being on the verandas, people dress according to the season. And in cold weather they use sleeping bags and warm blankets not to freeze. During verandah treatment, air baths can have different temperatures.
Classification of air baths
- Warm (t° > 22°C);
- Indifferent (t° = 21-22°C);
- Cool (t° = 17-20°C);
- Moderately cold (t° = 9-16°C);
- Cold (t° = 0-8°C).
Air bath treatment
What kind of baths you should take should be determined by the doctor after you have been examined.
Initially, the duration of the procedures is 10-15 minutes at an air temperature of 20°C. Every day, the time spent outdoors with this t ° is increased by only 10-15 minutes and 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 time spent in the air and adjusted to 30-60 minutes.
When taking moderately cold baths. Since the temperature of the air is below 17°C, the body must not be allowed to become supercooled.
The duration of cold baths, which are recommended only for well-trained people, should not exceed 8-20 minutes.
As soon as you notice goose bumps in yourself 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 it.
The benefits of air baths
- Your body's thermoregulation system is trained.
- The intensity of oxidative processes taking place in the body increases markedly.
- Muscles and nervous system, from the very first minutes of being in the air enveloping the body, come into tone.
- After you take air baths, your appetite will improve significantly, and your sleep will please you with its strength and depth.
- Emotions run wild, and the soul sings along with the body...
- Air therapy helps with the prevention of a number of diseases: certain 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.
Air bath contraindications
Even this seemingly harmless procedure has contraindications. Doctors do not recommend such baths for people with acute febrile illnesses, myositis and neuritis, as well as with exacerbations of rheumatism and various chronic inflammatory diseases of the joints.
If you've ever taken an outdoor bath, let us know how you feel in the comments.
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 and nervous system tone 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 are enough, then add 10-20 minutes every day, bringing up to two hours.
- After that, you can gradually reduce the temperature. Air baths are warm (more than 22 degrees), cool (17-20 degrees) and cold (less than 16 degrees).
- It is preferable to take an air bath on the move, and take off your clothes quickly. If you feel chilly, get dressed.
- During the air bath, sweating should not be allowed.
- Try combining an air bath with gymnastics or barefoot walking.
- After the air bath, put on clothes slightly warmer than you usually wear in such weather, and lie down on a hard surface with a bolster under your head.
- In addition to morning baths, you can arrange these procedures before dinner.
- Ideal if you can take air baths 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 working capacity is stimulated.
- If it is cold outside, there is precipitation 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. In order for the child to tolerate air baths well, accustom him to fresh and cool air. Do not wrap the baby either at home or on the street. Ventilate the room more often, make sure that the temperature does not exceed 19-20 ° C. Play with him for as long as possible.
People with poor health should start air baths from three minutes a day.
The duration of the 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 treatment.
Air procedures are only the first step to hardening. Having mastered them, you can safely move on to water.