When summer comes, children get affected with few common summer illnesses like a sore throat, cold, fever etc. You can prevent your child from common summer illness by taking few right precautions. Let’s take a look at 5 common summer illness of children-

1. Sunstroke or Heatstroke: Usually children suffer from sunstroke or heatstroke when they keep playing under the sunshine for a long time. Sun heat causes dehydration. Without taking proper care of hydrating children, sunstroke can happen. Also, the children can suffer from the fever which can last several days.

2. Boils: In summer, temperature raises & boils may come up in different parts of children’s body. Must consult a doctor in this case.

3. Polio: Polio is another common disease in summer. At the beginning, children suffer from fever and sore throat & later on this can lead to meningitis or paralysis. Talking polio vaccination on time can save your baby.

4. Water-Borne Diseases: During summer, children are affected with various water-borne diseases like cholera, typhoid, jaundice, dysentery, diarrhea, amoebiasis. Children who are habituated to outdoors food, get affected easily by those diseases.

5. Food Poisoning and Mosquito-Borne Diseases: Food is the easiest way to get infected. To keep your children protected from food poisoning & intoxication, encourage them to take homemade food instead of outdoors food.

Accumulation of water around the house increases the number of mosquitos & enhance the possibility to get infected by these diseases.

Prevention:

1. Don’t buy them roadside fruits. Avoid spicy & flavored food. Clean fruits properly with fresh water.

2. Encourage your children to drink plenty of water. Make sure what they are drinking is virus & germ-free.

3. Make sure you have enough fresh drinking water, juice or liquid food with you while outing.

4. Fiber food helps the digestion process. Give your child food rich in fiber.

5. Liquid food like lemon juice, coconut water is enriched with nutrition. They can prevent dehydration. Keep this food in your list for children.

6. Buy loose fitting cloths for your children.

7. Make your child do some exercise early in the morning or evening.

Take precautions to keep your child safe in summer. Be aware of insects bite & sun heat, feed them fresh food, drink them enough water. Make sure a healthy & sound life for your children.

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