How To Keep Your Little Ones Safe And Healthy In Rainy Season | Child Health In Monsoon

Monsoon is a special season where we can get huge relief from hot sun with cool breeze and refreshing rains. It brings fun with soft drizzles, green trees, jumping in puddles and water droplets rolling down from windowpane. As women are the one who gives life to little ones, she will have more care and concern towards her baby. 

Every individual of all age groups loves humid weather of monsoon. On the other hand during rainy season you need to make kid/child more hygiene and clean, as rains bring lot of diseases through mosquitoes you need to take more care to make your child stay safer in monsoon season.

Some Child Health and Safety Tips for Monsoon Season

Eat fresh

Try to use fresh fruits and vegetables in your kid’s diet.  When using leafy vegetables in rainy season try to wash them as many times as you can and stream them to eliminate germs present in them.

Say no to outside cook

Make your child to have food that is prepared in home rather than street food, as we don’t know what kind of water and items that they are using to prepare it. Since many of the waterborne diseases like diarrhea, typhoid and more come through contaminated food and water, make them to eat hygienic food to stay safe

Use boiled water for drinking

As most of the kids fall sick and get prey to water-borne diseases, use boiled water for drinking to make your child to stay healthy and hygiene. Try to boil water to about 100 degree Celsius to kills pathogens and germs present in water.

Keep mosquitoes away

As mosquitoes start breeding and multiply in number in rainy season in stagnate water, try to use cloves or camphor to keep flies at bay and use mosquitoes nets and coils to avoid them from biting your child.

Keep your child clean and tidy

Make sure to make your kid get showed thrice in a day with warm water by adding generous amount of antiseptic liquid to bucket of water. And never forget to use talcum powders on the areas that are prone to diseases and make sure to dress them with light, lose clothes to make them breathe well.

Other important tips to take care of child in rainy season

• ·         Keep your house clean to keep your child health good
• ·         Keep their feet dry all times by asking them to wear slippers or socks inside the house.
• ·         Teach them to use a sanitizer for hand wash
• ·         Make sure to use mosquito’s nets or liquid instead of coil, which might lead to smoke allergies
• ·         Keep your house insect proof