If parents want to see their child strong and healthy, then they should train his thermoregulatory processes in the body. Tempering with water, sun, air - these are three components that will help the baby adapt to external conditions and get used to them. Today we will find out what is the significance of such an impact, principles, types of procedures for strengthening the body. And also consider how to properly temper, so as not to harm your body, but, on the contrary, help it, make it more stable.
Why carry out the procedure?
Hardening is the constant training of the protective forces of an adult and a child through the influence of certain environmental conditions. This is not a method of treating colds, but a method of preventing them. The value of hardening is great: during a certain exposure to the body of the sun and water, a person is accommodated to environmental conditions. Due to this influence, the mechanisms of thermoregulation in the person's body begin to rebuild.
Hardening is a specific method, as a result of which a person acquires resistance to a specific physical factor. For example, if a person was constantly doused with cold water, then her body adapts only to frost and will not be resistant to heat.
Equally important is the stability of hardening. If during the week, for example, you do not carry out the procedure, then the body begins to lose its former shape, you have to start all over again.
Hardening can be carried out at any age, but the sooner you start this business, the better the results will be.
Principles of conducting procedures for improving the body
The hardening system is built on such provisions as:
- personal approach;
- gradualism and consistency;
- systematic;
- a combination of local and general procedures;
- the difference in forms and means;
- self-discipline;
- active lifestyle.
Types of Firming Workouts
As a means of increasing the body's resistance to the adverse effects of natural factors, the following are widely used:
- air;
- water;
- the sun.
It follows that hardening by cold, heat, atmospheric pressure is the basis of human health.
Carrying out procedures for newborns
Adaptation of babies to the influence of external factors is also important, and the health of children depends on how parents teach their daughters and sons to natural conditions. Tempering will bring strong immunity to boys and girls. Parents, in turn, are calm for the health of their children, as well as saving the family budget on medicines. Hardening of children can be made, starting from the first minutes of life crumbs. However, before this, you must always consult a pediatrician.
The basics of hardening and acceptable procedures for newborns are as follows:
1. Atmospheric baths during a change of clothes.
2. Shower.
3. Wet wipes.
4. Airing the rooms before going to bed.
Division of children into categories
Before starting the procedures for the recovery of children, you need to determine the state of health of the baby, as well as the capabilities of his body. Children can conditionally be divided into such hardening groups:
- The crumbs that were previously involved in such procedures and are completely healthy.
- Children who have not previously been hardened, currently have minor health problems.
- Boys and girls with chronic illnesses. For such a group, hardening begins with gentle procedures with a slow transition to optimal.
If the child is making progress, then he can be transferred to a special regulation, but only after examination and the permission of the pediatrician. There are practically no contraindications to hardening. If the baby is weak, then a more gentle regimen is simply selected for him . Naturally, such measures are temporarily suspended for the period of an exacerbation of the disease or the occurrence of injuries.
Forms for hardening children
Children's health will be strong if properly implemented and adhered to these four principles:
- Face wash.
- Rubdown.
- Foot baths.
- Dousing.
A common event - washing can be made firming. This requires slowly reducing the water temperature every 2 days by 1 degree. You need to start at 28 degrees and gradually bring them to:
- +20 degrees for crumbs up to 2 years;
- +18 degrees for peanuts from 2 to 3 years;
- +14 degrees for children over 3 years old.
Rubdown is the lightest of all water quenching procedures. It can be carried out even for infants. You need to start with the face and hands, then move to the neck, back, chest, etc.
Foot baths are an excellent means of forming the resistance of children to colds. To begin with, the lower limbs can simply be watered from the shower or lowered for 1 minute in a basin of water. You can start with a temperature of 36 degrees, and then slowly lower it by 1 degree every 3 days. For babies, the maximum reduction is allowed:
- for children from 1 to 3 years old - up to 20 degrees;
- for crumbs from 3 to 7 years - up to 17 degrees;
- for children over 7 years old - up to 15 degrees.
If the wiping procedures have been successfully carried out, then you can proceed with dousing. However, this method is not used for weakened children, since the procedure is carried out with sufficiently cold water.
The child should be in the bathroom with warm water (37–38 degrees), a special swimming cap is required on his head.
For dousing children, it is recommended to lower the temperature to such maximum values:
- for babies from 1 to 2 years old - 20-22 degrees;
- for children from 3 to 7 years old - 18–20 degrees.
The duration of such a procedure should be no more than 40 seconds. And you need to finish the douche by rubbing with a terry towel.
Microclimate as the basis of health
Air quenching - it is from such an event that you can begin to heal both yourself and your children. Outings in the fresh air are obligatory: in summer you can go hiking, in winter you can ski, sled.
Special hardening should be done starting from 30 minutes in a half-naked state in a well-ventilated room, and soon in the open air in the shade at a temperature of 18 degrees. Daily it is important to increase the procedure by 10 minutes, bringing them up to 2 hours. During such an event, it is necessary to make active movements, for example, do exercises.
Air hardening of children
For children in the apartment you need to ensure normal hygiene conditions. The air in the rooms should be clean, it is very important to do wet cleaning in each bedroom, as well as to air the house 3-4 times a day. The optimum temperature in the apartment should be between 22-23 degrees.
Slowly it is important to teach children to stay in a room that is ventilated. But a draft is unacceptable if the baby is in the room.
It is very important that the baby clothes always match the season and weather.
Many pediatricians recommend laying the baby to sleep in the open air, for example, in the yard, on the veranda, in the garden.
Air quenching also involves a walk with the baby in the fresh air. It is important to dress the baby according to the weather so that it is neither hot nor cold.
In summer, the child must be given the right to walk barefoot on the street.
Parents should know that hardening of children through air baths occurs even when the baby changes clothes after sleep, during an independent change of clothes. And even if the child is in light underwear (panties, T-shirt) during morning exercises, which must be carried out starting from the third year of life. Charging can be done with one-sided ventilation in the warm season, and in winter with closed windows. In summer, it’s better to go outside and do exercises there.
Rules for conducting air baths
Such events require compliance with certain requirements:
- Air quenching should be done no later than 60 minutes before eating.
- A good time to complete the procedure is from 8 to 18 hours.
- Activities related to tempering a person with air should be combined with muscle activity - walking, swinging, etc.
- The place where the procedures are planned should be protected from a sharp gust of wind.
Kindergarten and small body defenses training
Not only at home, it is necessary to prepare the baby for external environmental factors. Carers should also be tempered in preschool education. In this case, the teacher often conducts the following set of exercises throughout the day:
1. Air quenching:
- Reception of children from parents in the morning on the street.
- Air baths with various exercises.
- A dream with an open window leaf.
- Sun baths.
- Outdoor recreation in the shade.
- Walking around the group barefoot.
- Daily walks regardless of the weather (with the exception of rain and strong winds).
2. Children's water quenching in DOE provides:
- Wash your kids with cool water.
- Rinse your mouth with cool liquid.
- Pouring water on your feet in the warm season.
- Wiping with a towel.
3. Other procedures:
- Finger gymnastics.
- Walking on a ribbed board and salt paths.
- Self-massage.
- Daytime sleep without t-shirts.
- Breathing exercises.
The effect of the heavenly body on the body
The value of hardening through the influence of the sun is as follows: when observing and performing procedures related to training the body's thermoregulatory processes, the sun baths contribute to the normal functioning of the respiratory and nervous systems, and the musculoskeletal system. Thanks to them, the metabolic process, the composition of the lymph improves, the level of hemoglobin rises. As a result of such procedures, the human digestive system returns to normal, pancreatic function improves. In addition, the sun can increase the overall tone of the body, as well as its resistance to infections. During this hardening method, Vitamin D begins to be produced, which is necessary for the normal state of bones.
However, there are contraindications to the use of sunbathing. Such procedures are prohibited:
- women in an interesting position;
- to children;
- people with acute tuberculosis;
- persons with high blood pressure;
- people who have skin diseases.
Rules for hardening the body with the sun
- Everything should be in moderation.
- For the best effect, sunbathing should be taken in the morning (before 11 a.m.) and in the evening before sunset (after 16 p.m.).
- Atmospheric temperature should not be lower than 18 degrees.
- Initially, the time for sunbathing should be no more than 5 minutes. Then you can add 5-7 minutes daily, bringing to 1 hour.
- During such an event, you need to cover the age spots or moles with a scarf.
- It is advisable to wear dark glasses and a hat during the procedure.
- During this procedure, it is not recommended to eat food. It is better to do this 2 hours before sunbathing.
- After this event, pouring cool (17-18 degrees) water, as well as actively rubbing it, is very useful.
Water treatments for adults
Hardening and health are two terms firmly linked together. And water procedures are one of the methods of healing the body. They are the basis of hardening. It:
- shower;
- swimming;
- rinse;
- pouring;
- rubdown;
- wet wrap.
The strengthening effect of such measures is due to irritation of the nerve endings of the skin with moisture. As a result, a response from the body occurs.
While in the shower, it is advisable to alternate between cold water and hot. In this case, the human body gets used to such a contrasting effect, each time this process is made easier.
Wipe rules
For such an event, you will need a bowl of water, a soft towel of a small size that needs to be moistened in a clean liquid with a temperature of 36–37 degrees, and then squeezed out well. Then you need to quickly grind the whole body or just the limbs for 10 minutes. In this case, at first one arm is massaged, after which it needs to be wiped dry, and then the second one, back, stomach, chest, legs, are exactly the same.
Every 7 days, the water temperature must be reduced by 1 degree and bring it to the maximum tolerated.
Professionals recommend wiping in the morning at the same time, after charging. At the same time, it is necessary to ensure that the temperature in the room where the event is held is within 18–20 degrees of heat. And after the completed manipulations, it is recommended to wear warm clothes.
Pouring rules
Initially, the water for this hardening method should have a temperature in the range of 37–38 degrees Celsius. At first, the duration of pouring should be no more than 1 minute, and gradually it is necessary to increase this time to 3 minutes.
After the performed manipulations, it is recommended to rub the whole body with a warm soft towel.
It is forbidden to immediately pour over very cold water. You need to slowly adjust the immune system to the procedure, because an unprepared body can react in a negative way: a person can catch a cold.
Bathing rules
You can plunge in the pool, river, in the pond, the sea. In an open reservoir, hardening by bathing should begin with a water temperature of 20–22 degrees Celsius and air temperature 23–24 degrees. In this case, you must follow simple rules:
- Optimum hardening in the summer.
- Before you get into the water, you need to bask a little in the sun, and it is also desirable to stretch the body for 5 minutes.
- The most suitable time for swimming in the open pond is until 12 noon and after 16 pm.
- It is necessary to enter the water gradually, so that the body can slowly get used to the low temperature of the water.
- During this method of hardening, it is necessary to move, swim, so as not to freeze.
- After bathing, you need to thoroughly wipe the body with a clean towel.
Winter swimming
This is another method of hardening, which involves swimming in an open reservoir in winter. This is one of the most severe procedures to strengthen the human body.
Wintering can begin only after preliminary hardening with cold for many years. Before the procedure, a doctor’s consultation will be required, because when bathing in water below 5 degrees, the human body spends a lot of energy, the heart rate increases, and the pressure rises. Doctors do not recommend starting winter swimming to people after 50 years.
At first, a person is in ice water for no more than half a minute, then step by step he increases the duration of bathing to 1 minute. More than 60 seconds, it is undesirable to be in a pond.
It is forbidden to engage in winter swimming for people who have problems with the heart and blood vessels, there are problems with the respiratory system, and children under 18 cannot be given such procedures.
Now you know that natural elements of nature, such as air, sun and water, are the main components in the hardening of the body. However, it must be remembered that a positive effect after the above procedures can be obtained only if they are carried out systematically, without gaps. And always with the permission of the doctor.