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It has been observed that when you teach your baby to adopt healthy personal hygiene, you reduce their risk of catching any infections. You can very easily make sure that your kid is not coming in contact with anything suspicious when they are at home.
But, when your kid is attending daycare of school, you should make sure that they are taught to maintain hygiene in order to prevent them from catching infections. These healthy habits will not only boost their immune system but will also help them to be aware.
Here are some of the common habits that parents must teach their kids for their security:
1. Hand Washing Habit
Children catch cold and other infections very easily. This is maybe because they usually remain in close contact with each other. Also, they share toys and play with each other. You never know if someone in their friend circle already has flu.
Hand washing is a common and effective way to avoid such infections. It would help if you taught your kids to wash their hands properly and quiet often. Ask them for a hand wash before and after eating, after using the bathroom and even after blowing their nose.
2. The Happy Birthday Method
Using this way, you can teach your kids to wash their hands properly. Your kid might simply go to the basin, splash some water, and consider it done. But you know this is not how washing is to be done.
Ask your little ones to rub hands with soap, long enough to sing Happy Birthday twice. Also, teach them to gently rub all the parts of their hands, like the area between the fingers and the back of the hands as well.
However, you can add hand-sanitizers into their carry-bags, but teaching them to wash their hands properly is always a better option.
3. Teach them Proper Sneezing and Coughing Etiquettes
You already know that the viruses causing coughing and sneezing are airborne and easily spread from one person to another. When we sneeze, tiny droplets of saliva come out from our mouth. So, not covering your face is not an option at all.
But then, where exactly to sneeze? It has been observed that as our hands come in contact with the outside world very often, sneezing into the sleeves is a preferred option. As your kid might be shaking hands and touching other objects, chances of passing on the infections increases.
If not this, ask them to cough in some facial tissue. But again, that is not be used repeatedly and need to be disposed off.
4. Not to touch Eyes, Nose, or Mouth
Kids are often into the habit of touching their faces at regular intervals. Be it rubbing their eyes, nose, or simply touching their mouth for biting their teeth. This is another way by which infections can enter the body.
Teach them to keep their hands away from their faces. This will also prevent them from catching any infection. Also, if there are any germs on their hands, they will not enter into their body and will wipe off after thorough washing.
4. Not to Share their cups and spoons
When kids are with good friends, you might have observed them sharing all their stuff. Also, it hardly makes a difference to them if they are sharing food or toys. However, sharing is a good gesture, ask your kids to not eat in the same plate with the others suffering from flu.
Moreover, if your kid shows flu-like symptoms, it is necessary to isolate them from the others. The chances of catching cold or fever increases when you are eating the shared utensils. Moreover, you should teach your kids not to share cups with their friends if they notice any symptoms.
5. Encourage them for a Fist bump
Hands can often be germy. And you surely do not want to spread germs. Ask your kids for a fist bump rather than shaking hands. This will prevent them from catching unnecessary infections.
Moreover, it reduces skin contact. Moreover, it has been observed in a study that bumping off the fist transfers 90 percent fewer germs as compared to handshakes.
6. Keeping a Clean Home
You can ask your kids to help you with cleaning your homes. This will inculcate in them the habit of keeping the surroundings clean. The cleaner the surrounding less is the chances of germs entering into your system.
Also, note that the kids learn from what they see. However, you can add incentives like buying kids' clothes or taking them shopping when they help you in cleaning.
In addition to these habits, you should have a lot of nutrition in your child’s diet. Ask them to take plenty of water and take a lot of fruit. These will help in boosting their immune system.
Also, make sure that your child gets good and uninterrupted sleep. Developing good habits in kids is your responsibility. Ask them to follow good personal hygiene to stay healthy.
