Guangdong provincial hospital of traditional Chinese medicine preventive treatment center
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Six most common health problems of children
2009 12 14 comes from the column of medical science popularization.
The six most common health problems of children are dental caries, abnormal vision, respiratory infection, obesity, emaciation and abnormal external genitalia. Parents should attach great importance to these problems and prevent and treat them as soon as possible.
decayed tooth
Rectification method: don't think that deciduous teeth will always be replaced by horizontal teeth, and don't pay attention to the dental care of infants. Usually, we should develop the habit of gargling with clear water or light salt water, and older children can teach them to brush their teeth. At present, the incidence of dental caries in children is generally 30%. The main reason for tooth decay is that children don't pay attention to oral hygiene, and some children won't brush their teeth when they are five or six years old. Some parents don't pay much attention to it, and they don't start training their children to brush their teeth until their children are about to go to primary school, which leads to poor oral hygiene and dental caries. Therefore, when the child is about two and a half years old, parents or kindergarten teachers should instruct the child to brush his teeth in the morning and evening, and often rinse his mouth with clear water or light salt water. We should also get into the habit of not eating snacks before going to bed.
Abnormal vision
Rectification method: If the child's vision is abnormal, parents usually think of myopia first. In fact, the vision abnormalities of preschool children are mainly astigmatism and hyperopia. Routine physical examination in kindergarten found that about 5% children have astigmatism and hyperopia. Because the vision development of preschool children is not perfect, the vision of middle-class children is generally above 1.0, and that of children less than 0.8 is normal. However, if astigmatism, hyperopia and other problems occur during this period, children will not be stimulated by clear optical images, and their vision development will be hindered, leading to amblyopia. Children with abnormal vision should see a specialist in time and pay attention to eye hygiene. After the age of 6, children's visual function has been fully developed, and it is not easy to improve their vision before that. And don't watch TV for long. Often go to suburban places with wide horizons to let children look far away.
respiratory tract infection
Rectification method: Now many children are flowers in the greenhouse. If you don't take care of them carefully, they will catch a cold, cough and have a fever. This is a respiratory infection, which is related to the poor resistance of children. In addition, in collective life, it is also one of the reasons for not developing good hygiene habits. It is not difficult to prevent respiratory tract infection. In kindergarten, children are guaranteed two hours of outdoor activities every day, so that they can get enough sunshine and breathe fresh air, encourage them to drink more water and eat more fresh fruits and vegetables to improve their resistance. Parents should cultivate their children to develop good hygiene habits, such as washing their hands frequently and not touching their noses and eyes. They should teach children how to wipe their noses correctly, insist on washing their faces with cold water and enhance their adaptability to cold air. Children with recurrent respiratory tract infections can improve their immunity by combining traditional Chinese and western medicine. Such as oral thymosin, bee venom therapy and acupoint stimulation. You can also use moxa stick to moxibustion Zusanli point to achieve the purpose of tonifying deficiency and strengthening body resistance. Some children like to eat some fried "junk food" and often get sick as soon as they eat it. I told my parents that "those fried food stores are our (hospital) chain stores, and they will report to (hospital) after eating." I hope parents don't take this sentence as just a humorous one. In that case, my words will be in vain.
fat
Rectification method: Obese children can now reach 5%, which is nearly 10 times higher than ten years ago. In fact, children in full-time care eat regularly when they are in kindergarten, but when they get home, they eat irregularly. They eat a lot of high-fat diets and sweets, especially snacks and sweet drinks, and there is no limit. Because there is a kind of psychological compensation for children, parents often let it go. Children who eat too much and exercise too little are prone to get fat. Obese children should be given effective guidance in controlling diet and increasing exercise, such as cultivating children to develop good eating habits, drinking soup before meals, chewing slowly when eating, etc. In addition, we should change our unhealthy lifestyle, exercise more and sit down less, and burn calories constantly in happy games to achieve the goal of weight control. And no snacks.
lose weight
Rectification method: Many children are often sick, have poor digestion and absorption, have a bad appetite, and don't think about diet all day. Or just drink water or milk. Or just eat rice. These are easy to lead to emaciation and low immunity. To correct this problem, we must first recuperate the intestines and treat anorexia and partial eclipse. Achieve a balanced nutrition. Bee therapy or moxa stick moxibustion at Zusanli point has better effect.
Abnormal external genitalia
Rectification method: Now many boys are often found phimosis in clinic. Many parents worry that it will be very painful for their children to operate on sparrows when treating phimosis. If they accidentally hurt sparrows, it will be even more troublesome, so they hesitate and delay the treatment. Phycosis will do a lot of harm to children: the development of glans penis will be affected by being tightly wrapped in foreskin for a long time; Urine sediment and urine scale accumulate in the foreskin, which not only causes adhesion between the foreskin and the glans penis, but also easily causes balanitis. The most easily overlooked and serious abnormality of external genitalia is cryptorchidism in children. Cryptorchidism means that one or two testicles do not fall into the scrotum at birth, but stay in the groin or abdominal cavity. If you stay in the groin or abdominal cavity for a long time, it will lead to testicular lesions due to high temperature, and may even lose fertility. Therefore, the earlier the cryptorchidism operation, the better the prognosis. If the child finds problems with the external genitalia during the examination, he should be treated as soon as possible.