What are the common diseases that babies get in summer? What diseases are babies prone to in summer?

What are the common diseases of babies in summer? How to take care of babies in hot summer weather? Avoiding babies from getting sick in summer is a question many parents have. Today, let's analyze what are the common diseases in summer and what preventive measures are better.

What are the common diseases of babies in summer?

1. Prevent heat stroke on hot days

It is easy to sweat in the summer. The sweat glands in the baby's skin are not fully developed and the body's water storage capacity is limited. Excessive sweating can easily cause dehydration shock.

Breathing is an important way for the human body to dissipate heat, because the lungs are the secondary heat dissipation organ besides the skin, and when exhaling, the heat in the lungs can be discharged from the body (accounting for 10% of the heat dissipation). However, if the ambient temperature is higher than the body temperature, the hot air inhaled will even increase the body temperature. Since babies cannot effectively control their breathing and regulate their body temperature in summer, they are prone to heat damage.

If the baby's skin turns red first, and you can feel dryness and heat when you touch the baby's skin. The baby is irritable and some may cry, and their breathing and pulse rate accelerate. Then they will appear tired, dizzy, convulsed, or fall into a coma. When measuring the body temperature, it may be as high as 39℃ or above. The baby is likely to have heat stroke. Mothers should effectively adjust the indoor temperature and keep the surrounding environment ventilated and the temperature appropriate.

2. Pay attention to baby dehydration

Medically, it is called summer dehydration fever in infants. There are no obvious symptoms in the early stage of dehydration. Once the baby starts crying and getting irritable for unknown reasons, mothers should be careful. When this happens, mothers should replenish the baby with sufficient water in time. The disease is caused by the high temperature and dry climate in the hot summer, and the baby loses a lot of water through sweating. If the baby is not replenished with water in time, it will cause fever, and sometimes the body temperature can reach 39℃ to 42℃.

3. Not drinking enough water can also cause diarrhea

In hot weather, babies sweat a lot. If they don't drink enough water, the digestive juices in their bodies, such as saliva, gastric juice, intestinal juice, bile, and pancreatic juice, will all decrease, affecting their appetite and digestive function. They will be very prone to diarrhea. After infection, babies generally have clinical symptoms of acute gastroenteritis, i.e. watery diarrhea, accompanied by fever, vomiting, and abdominal pain. The diarrhea is mostly white rice soup-like or yellow-green egg-drop-like watery stools with a foul odor. In severe cases, death may occur due to dehydration and complications such as pneumonia and toxic myocarditis.

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4. Beware of summer colds

The characteristic of summer is the scorching sun, which seems to be far away from cold and cold. But in fact, the baby's body temperature regulation center and skin heat dissipation and heat preservation regulation functions are poor. In summer, the indoor air-conditioned environment and the high temperature outdoors, the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor are large, so babies are very likely to catch a cold in summer. The baby's symptoms are: no sweating, thirst, frequent urination, loss of appetite, pale complexion and irritability, and the course of the disease can last for 1-2 months. Therefore, mothers are required to pay attention to ventilation and temperature control, and often let the baby rest in a relatively cool place. Whether outdoors or indoors, they must be kept clean, dry and ventilated, and feed the baby more light salt and cold boiled water in time.

5. Mosquito bites can easily cause skin diseases

Summer is also the season when mosquitoes are active. The tender skin of babies becomes the target of attack, and they are more likely to be bitten by mosquitoes than adults. Babies can easily scratch their skin and cause bacterial infection, so don't underestimate these mosquitoes. When babies' hands and feet are bitten by mosquitoes, pigmentation will be left, and repeated scratching and scarring may leave scars like small red beans, which is the so-called "red bean ice" phenomenon. It not only hinders the beauty of the skin, but also turns into cellulitis in severe cases. Mothers should spray non-toxic insecticides before going to bed every day, or use mosquito nets for their babies. You can bring ointments such as Tiger Balm and Green Oil when traveling.

6. Prevent sunburn during outdoor activities

As outdoor activities increase in summer, the possibility of sunburn also increases. After sunburn, the baby's skin will turn red, stinging and itchy. Some babies will cry, while others will only become irritable when the skin peels or stings. Some mothers are reluctant to use sunscreen for their newborn babies, thinking that babies don't need it, or they are worried that sunscreen lotion will hurt the baby's delicate skin. In fact, babies over six months old can start using sunscreen lotion. If you are outdoors for a long time, you can choose a sunscreen lotion with a sun protection factor of 15-25 and apply it to your baby every 4-5 hours.

7. Beware of traumatic infection

After being bitten by mosquitoes, if the baby scratches the wound and bacteria invade, it is easy to form wound infection. Therefore, after the baby is bitten by mosquitoes, it is best to apply special medicine to the baby immediately to prevent scratching caused by itching.

What diseases are babies prone to in summer?

Sin No. 1: Diarrhea

Among children's diseases in my country, diarrhea is the second most common and frequently occurring disease in children after respiratory tract infection. Summer is especially the season when diarrhea frequently occurs in children. Why is this so? First of all, children's intestines are not yet mature, and they are used to eating too much cold drinks in summer. The diluted stomach acid cannot effectively kill the bacteria. In addition, the digestive enzymes in children's stomachs are less secreted than those in adults, which makes it easy for indigestion to cause diarrhea. In addition, the temperature is high in summer, and bacteria can easily multiply rapidly.

Treatment

To treat diarrhea, we must first understand the types of diarrhea. Diarrhea can be divided into two categories according to the cause: infectious diarrhea and non-infectious diarrhea. Infectious diarrhea is usually caused by bacterial enteritis and viral enteritis; non-infectious diarrhea includes what we usually call diarrhea caused by indigestion, allergic diarrhea, etc.

It can be seen that the causes of diarrhea in children are complex, but most children's antidiarrhea drugs on the market only target a certain type of diarrhea, so parents can prefer drugs with a wider range of indications. For example, the newly launched Dulailin is an antidiarrhea drug specifically for children's diarrhea. It can treat a variety of diarrhea such as cold diarrhea, food-related diarrhea, and seasonal diarrhea. It has the effects of rapid astringency and antidiarrhea, promoting digestion, and optimizing children's nutritional structure. On the basis of medication, parents can cooperate with some auxiliary treatment methods, which is more conducive to the rapid improvement of the condition and the recovery of the body after the illness, such as giving the baby warm salt water and brown sugar rice soup in small amounts and multiple times.

Prevention

1. Pay attention to hygiene. Baby's tableware and food should be stored separately, with dust-proof and fly-proof equipment. The inner room should be kept dry. Wet areas such as the bathroom should be disinfected regularly. Fruit peels and food scraps should be sealed in bags before being thrown into the trash can, etc.

2. Cold food and cold drinks must be consumed in moderation, in small amounts, and try not to eat in the morning or evening.

3. The air-conditioning temperature should not be too low, 27℃-28℃ is appropriate. Try not to turn on the air-conditioning in the baby's room. You can turn on the air-conditioning in the next room to cool it down. In addition, place a fan facing the wall to create flowing air.

Second sin: heat stroke

In the hot summer, direct exposure to the sun can easily cause imbalance and loss of control of the body's temperature regulation function, resulting in a large amount of residual heat accumulation in the body, which is what we usually call heat stroke. Children are very weak and need the help of sunlight to absorb calcium, so they have become loyal "patients" of heat stroke. When children have heat stroke, the symptoms are high fever, and the body temperature is generally around 38℃-39℃, and in severe cases it can be as high as 41℃ or above. Children are prone to convulsions and coma when they have heat stroke, and in severe cases it can cause cerebral edema, respiratory failure and damage to important liver organs.

Treatment

Don't panic when a child has heatstroke. Move the child to a cool place, take off the clothes, and turn on the fan or air conditioner to dissipate the heat as quickly as possible. At the same time, use some common and effective physical cooling methods, such as cold compressing the child's head with a wet and cool towel, or wiping the body with warm water, which can generally achieve the effect of cooling down and relieving heat. After the child regains consciousness, let him drink mung bean soup or light salt water to relieve the heat. It is worth noting that if the above physical methods are not enough to cool down and relieve the heat, do not take antipyretic and heat-relief medicines at random, otherwise it will aggravate the condition. The correct approach is to send the child to the hospital for emergency treatment as soon as possible.

Prevention

1. Reasonably arrange children's work and rest time, ensure a certain amount of lunch break, and avoid going out before noon and 2 pm. The diet should be light, drink more mung bean soup and light salt water, and take a bath and wipe the body frequently every day.

2. If you want to take your baby out for activities, be sure to bring anti-heat tools, such as parasols, sun hats, sunglasses, etc. It is best not to expose your baby to the sun for a long time, and make sure to let the baby rest in the shade.

The third deadly sin: colds

Some people think that you won't catch a cold in summer, but that's not true. Summer colds are also called summer-heat colds in traditional Chinese medicine. They are different from wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds in winter. Summer-heat colds are caused by the hot summer, high humidity, and people's desire for coolness, such as eating cold drinks and using air conditioning. Children are afraid of heat, and they are easily irritable and prone to heatstroke when it's too hot, so they need a certain cooling environment. If the temperature is not properly cooled at this time, sensitive and fragile constitutions are prone to catching a cold. It should also be noted that colds are dangerous and can induce other diseases, such as chronic bronchitis and asthma, so they need to be treated in time.

Treatment

Some mothers habitually give their babies intravenous drips after they catch a cold. In fact, this is not advisable, because the baby is still in the developmental stage. The guiding principle of medication is to avoid injections if you can take medicine, and avoid intravenous drips if you can take injections, because intravenous drips sometimes have side effects. So you might as well give your baby Isatis root granules, or decoctions made from honeysuckle, forsythia, and radix rehmanniae.

Prevention

1. Improve your baby's physical fitness, let him crawl more, walk more, or play more games with his mother.

2. Pay attention to indoor ventilation and keep the room dry. In addition, the baby should rest in a cool place frequently, but the indoor temperature should not be too low.

3. Give your baby more salt water and bathe him with warm water.

How to prevent common diseases in summer

Common diseases in children during summer: what parents should know

1. Pay attention to the hygiene of adults and children, wash hands before meals and after defecation, wash hands and take a bath frequently, and get vaccinated regularly.

2. Do not eat spoiled food. It is best not to eat overnight food. Drink more boiled water and less cold drinks.

3. Do moderate exercise every day. It is best to choose indoor exercise venues, and each exercise time should not exceed half an hour. Take a proper rest and replenish some water. In summer, always have wind oil on hand to effectively prevent heatstroke and cool down.

4. Ensure that children get enough sleep, avoid overwork, relax their body and mind, and maintain a good mental state. Develop a good habit of going to bed early and getting up early. Generally, the average sleep time of children is within 9 to 10 hours.

5. When traveling, it is best to choose the evening or early morning when the weather is cool. Do not expose children to the scorching sun and replenish water in time.

6. Green vegetables must be thoroughly soaked, washed and cooked before being given to children.