The winter solstice is here, the most ferocious season for influenza is also the best season to take supplements, so your baby won’t get sick.

Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year. It is also the day of the year when yin energy is at its strongest and yang energy is at its weakest. After the winter solstice, Yang Qi slowly recovers and Yin Qi gradually weakens. Until the summer solstice, Yang Qi is at its strongest and Yin Qi is at its weakest, and then they rotate with each other. Because the change of seasons is gradual. Therefore, we cannot feel the rotation of yin and yang immediately. After the winter solstice, the strong yin energy will remain for a long time, and the weather will even enter the coldest season of the year – \”Nine Cold Days\”. The period from the winter solstice to the minor cold and major cold is the coldest period of the year, and the human body will obviously feel the biting cold. In such a climate environment, in order to protect the body\’s Yang Qi, the human body will shrink its pores, close up the Yang Qi, slow down the flow of Qi and blood, and slow down the body\’s metabolism. In a cold climate, the body\’s own Yang Qi is insufficient, and coupled with the stimulation of disease pathogens, the body is particularly susceptible to illness. After the winter solstice, the most common problem for children and adults is upper respiratory tract infection. The elderly are prone to cardiovascular problems due to slower blood flow and insufficient yang energy. Yesterday, a friend said that their kindergarten teacher informed them that the flu has been particularly serious recently, asking them to take good care of their babies, avoid going to crowded places, wash their hands frequently every day, pay attention to keeping warm and cold, and take preventive measures. In my circle of friends, many mothers are caring for sick babies. Some babies have colds and coughs, and some mothers and babies are sick and have a cold together. In this season, when babies are most susceptible to illness, upper respiratory tract health care is very important to keep your baby healthy. First, protect yourself from the cold. After the winter solstice, the climate enters the coldest season. At this time, the body itself is susceptible to cold. The upper respiratory tract is more susceptible to cold than other parts of the body. Because \”the lungs are delicate organs\”, the nose is exposed to the outside and is constantly in contact with the outside air and diseases. The function of the nose is to heat the cold air breathed through the sinuses and filter the nose hairs to exclude harmful substances, heat the air to the temperature required by the body, and then transport it to the trachea. But when the nose gets cold, the sinuses stop working. The nasal cavity and sinuses are stimulated by the cold air, and the nasal mucus will flow out uncontrollably. The ability of the nose to block bacteria also becomes weak, and various viruses, bacteria, allergens, and inflammatory mediators When it accumulates in the nasal cavity and sinuses, the mucous membranes of the nasal cavity and sinuses become congested and swollen, causing discomfort in the nose and constant sneezing and runny nose. If the cold condition is further aggravated, the throat and trachea will also experience discomfort. Nowadays, everyone pays attention to keeping warm from the cold. When winter comes, parents always pay attention to keeping warm. But everyone will also find that even though they are very careful, the baby still catches colds frequently, has a runny nose, and has a red, swollen and inflamed throat from time to time. This is actually caused by cold. Nowadays, living conditions have improved. Every household in the north has heating. There are also many households in the south and the Yangtze River Basin with air conditioners or floor heating. When using it, many people pursue physical comfort excessively and turn up the temperature very high. They can wear short-sleeved shorts at home. In this case, all the pores of the body will open in order to dissipate sweat and dissipate heat. It’s not a big problem if you stay at home all the time, but people always have to go out to the roomOutdoor activities. When you go from a particularly warm environment to a cold environment outside, your body is particularly susceptible to cold. Some people may say that they wear thick clothes when going out and do a good job of keeping warm. On the surface, it seems that the external insulation is done well, thick clothes are worn, and gloves, hats and scarves are fully worn. But the body itself did not adjust. As mentioned earlier, when the indoor temperature is too high, the pores are opened in order to dissipate heat. When you go out, you wear thick winter clothes, but your body cannot receive the signal immediately. It also thinks that it needs to dissipate heat. When you walk outside, your body will continue to feel hot, and your body is still dissipating heat. After going outside, the nose and mouth, which are the first to be exposed to the outside world, will quickly feel the cold air outside. If the nose goes from hot to cold, or suddenly catches a cold, it will cause symptoms quickly. Sneezing, runny nose, stuffy nose. When the nose fails, the child will breathe through the mouth, and the cold air will enter the throat through the mouth. The throat will be irritated and red and swollen. Babies with lung fever will soon develop tonsillitis. Many babies get colds, fevers, and tonsillitis inexplicably just after going out. This is caused by a sudden cold. Therefore, cold protection work must be done well after the winter solstice. Preventing the cold here is not only about being fully equipped when going out, but more importantly, reducing the temperature difference between indoors and outdoors. If there is a heater at home, don’t turn the temperature too high. Try to control it at 18-20 degrees, so that the body can feel some chill appropriately. This can avoid sudden cold. If your baby has already caught a cold, you can use the method in the article \”The season when you are most likely to catch a cold is here. Master these steps and you can easily deal with various symptoms of a cold. Mothers must learn how to deal with it.\” If your baby\’s nose shows signs of a cold due to cold, it can be quickly controlled by using the massage technique or rinsing the nasal cavity with salt water introduced in our article a few days ago \”When the weather is cold, the child repeatedly has a runny nose and cough, this can completely cure it\” Stay sick. Secondly, we must do a good job in keeping warm. Many mothers think that to keep warm, they just need to wear more clothes and cover their babies. This approach is wrong. Babies are full of yang energy. They are like a small stove and are not afraid of cold. To keep your baby warm, you don\’t need to cover it more, but you should cover it less, just right. Never put a lot of clothes on your baby just because you are cold. Especially if there are elderly people at home to help take care of the children, because the elderly have insufficient Qi and blood and are afraid of the cold. They look at their children based on their own feelings and will wear a lot of clothes for them. The children are energetic and active, and their bodies sweat in order to dissipate heat. However, they cover their children too thickly and the heat cannot dissipate, so the baby will easily cover themselves up in various ways. kind of problem. For example, eczema, atopic dermatitis, and colds are also common. So the first step to keep warm is to wear just the right amount, as much as the mother wears, and as much as the baby wears. Never overdress your baby with the feeling of an elderly person. The more you cover your baby, the more likely it is that your baby will get sick. But there are also several key times when babies need to pay special attention to keeping warm. If they are not kept warm at this time, the baby will easily get sick immediately. The first critical moment is when your baby wakes up. Many mothers are worried about their babies kicking the quilt at night, for fear that the baby will catch the cold while kicking the quilt. In fact, whenWhen the baby is really cold, he won\’t kick the quilt at all. The most vulnerable time for babies to catch cold is when they get up, especially when they get out of bed and get dressed. When sleeping, for the sake of physical comfort, I wear very few clothes. After falling asleep, the quilt has good warmth retention properties and my body is warm. But in the morning, when you sit up from the warm bed or take the baby out, that moment is the most vulnerable to cold. Therefore, many babies will suddenly sneeze, have a runny nose, or suddenly cough when they wake up in the morning, which is caused by a sudden cold. In order to prevent the baby from getting cold when getting up, the mother must do a good job of keeping warm. You can turn on the air conditioner or electric heater one hour in advance, so that when the baby gets up, the room is already very warm and he is less likely to catch the cold. You can also let your baby wear a sleeping bag that is easy to hold or move around. After your baby gets up, don\’t untie the sleeping bag immediately. Let him wear it and play for a while, and then put on clothes after his body gets used to it. The second time you need to keep warm is when taking a shower. When bathing your baby in winter, don’t be reluctant to give up water. Put a little more water in the bathtub. The water temperature is 1-2 degrees higher than the temperature your baby is accustomed to. Let the baby soak in the water so that the baby will not catch the cold during the bath. If your baby likes to play with water, you can turn on the hot water faucet and use hot water to wash the baby\’s back, especially the shoulders, neck, lungs, and so on, so that the baby will not catch the cold during the bath. After taking a bath, the baby should be quickly wrapped in a warm towel and dried when taken out of the water. Then carry her into an air-conditioned or heated room and put on clothes. If you are not using an air conditioner or electric heater, put your baby in bed and get dressed quickly. Third, we should pay attention to improving indoor air quality. This winter, everyone will find that the air is significantly better than in previous years, and there are obviously many more days where you can see blue skies and white clouds. This is a good sign. But the decrease in haze days does not mean that the haze has completely disappeared. I replaced the air purifier filter some time ago and found that after half a year of use, the air purifier filter at home is still dark. After I started using Da\’s air purifier in October, a girl from Nanjing recently sent me a picture of the filter in her home after using the air purifier for two months. It still makes people feel that there is a long way to go to clean up the air! (The picture above is a real picture of the filter of a girl in Nanjing after using an air purifier for 2 months) Every time you cook at home, the air quality in your home will also deteriorate. Even if the range hood is on, even if the kitchen door is closed, the air purifier in the living room will still have a red light. The baby\’s respiratory system is inherently weaker than that of adults. For the baby\’s health, even if the overall air quality has improved, everyone still needs to use an air purifier so that the baby can breathe fresh and clean air indoors. When the baby\’s lung system is strong enough, the baby\’s immunity and resistance can be effectively improved. Fourth, we must take correct supplements. After the winter solstice, Yang Qi is slowly recovering, and the body is most likely to absorb external nutrients. Therefore, the three to nine days after the winter solstice are the best time of year to take supplements. At this time, it can replenish blood and qi according to the body\’s condition and be more easily absorbed by the body. Many mothers think that their babies are in poor health and prone to illness, so they also want to seize this opportunity to give their babies a supplement. Many people think that if you want to supplement, you have to give some good supplements to your baby.To replenish the body, some mothers will take medicinal supplements and give their babies some ointments and nourishing medicines, such as heterogeneous ginseng, ginseng, cordyceps, etc., to enhance their physical fitness. Some people choose food supplements and let their babies eat mutton, soft-shell turtle, sea cucumber, etc. to nourish their body. It is important to emphasize here that no matter whether it is medicinal supplements or food supplements, you must not give them casually to your baby. Only those babies with insufficient Yang Qi need to supplement Yang Qi. But no matter how bad your baby\’s health is, don\’t give your baby ginseng, donkey hide gelatin, deer antlers, cordyceps, etc. The baby\’s body won\’t be able to handle it. Babies with insufficient yang energy can eat some Radix Pseudostellariae and some Bazhen powder to regulate their bodies. But because our living conditions are so good, more babies are prone to illness not because of insufficient Yang Qi, but because of excess Yang Qi and Yin deficiency. Babies with Yin deficiency are more likely to have upper respiratory tract problems. For these babies with yin deficiency, the key to nourishing yin in winter is to nourish yin. We should avoid letting them eat too much fat, sweet and flavourful meat. They should eat less mutton, soft-shell turtle, sea cucumber, etc. that are full of yang energy. High-protein seafood should also be controlled. Fried, braised, etc. can easily accumulate moisture and cause phlegm. Food should also be controlled. Instead, add some foods that nourish yin and promote fluid production, such as water chestnuts, lotus roots, pears, radish, lily, cabbage, etc. If the baby\’s yin deficiency is serious, let him drink some radish water, pear soup, white fungus soup or sour plum soup to promote fluid production. If the baby eats too much meat and cannot digest the accumulated food, there are now fresh hawthorns. Let the baby eat fresh hawthorns directly, or boil the hawthorns into hawthorn sauce or make hawthorn cakes, hawthorn strips, etc., which will help digestion. . If the baby has a cough, it must be treated correctly according to the baby\’s condition. You can use the methods in \”During the High Cough Season, You Must Learn This Set of Dialectical and Green Response Methods for Cough\” to first determine the baby\’s cough condition and then deal with it step by step. If the cough is caused by yin deficiency, you must nourish yin on the basis of treating the cough. Use radish water, pear juice or autumn pear paste, or yam water, sugar cane and water chestnuts to treat it. Treat sugarcane and water chestnuts in sugarcane water chestnuts, and you can also add dried lilies, carrots, barley, dried yam, etc. No matter what, everyone must pay attention not to give your baby supplements casually in winter! Here I also want to tell you mothers specifically about your own conditioning methods. Although babies cannot take supplements casually, mothers themselves can take supplements after the winter solstice. Many mothers suffer from blood deficiency and qi deficiency after childbirth. This is the best time to take supplements. By replenishing qi and blood, the yang energy will grow and the blood vessels will be sufficient, and the body will get better and better. To replenish qi and blood, I highly recommend Yuling paste. Last week I steamed some Yuling paste myself. Put the cored dried longan and American ginseng powder into the steamer in a ratio of 10:1. After boiling over high heat, turn to Steam slowly over minimum heat for a total of 40 hours. You can turn off the heat halfway and do not need to steam continuously. The heat of longan will be slowly steamed away, and all the medicinal properties will be steamed out. In this way, the steamed Yuling Paste will not cause internal heat if eaten every day. Directly mix Yuling ointment with water, add honey or brown sugar, and drink a cup every day to improve blood deficiency and regulate insomnia. I now take two slices of Angelica sinensis, three red dates, a handful of wolfberries, and a piece of brown sugar and boil them in water for 15 minutes every day, then add half a spoonful of Yuling paste, mix thoroughly, and drink water. thisIt replenishes blood and Qi without causing internal heat. My classmate said a few days ago that the Yuling paste mixed with milk tastes very good, and it feels like milk tea. You can also give it a try. If you have blood deficiency, in addition to taking Yuling Paste, you can also stew chicken with angelica and supplement it with iron-rich red meat. Some mothers use donkey hide gelatin to replenish qi and blood. The effect of donkey-hide gelatin in replenishing qi and blood is indeed very good, but if you are deficient in blood but have a constitution with phlegm and dampness, you will easily get angry after eating donkey-hide gelatin. You must first deal with the phlegm and dampness, and then use donkey-hide gelatin to replenish blood. You can also try some such as red dates, longan tea or brown sugar to replenish your qi and blood. If you have qi deficiency, you can use astragalus, American ginseng or ginseng, wolfberry, etc. to replenish qi. The winter solstice is a good time to replenish the kidneys. Many mothers have severe hair loss after childbirth and more and more white hair. After the winter solstice, you can also add black sesame seeds, black rice, black beans, walnut kernels, lotus seeds, barley, dried yam, dried red dates, red beans, etc. Cooking porridge, or directly frying and grinding it into powder, and adding a spoonful of milk or water every day can also strengthen the spleen and kidneys. You can also boil yam, gorgon seeds, and barley directly in water. You can also drink yam water regularly, eat some whole grains, millet, etc., and consume a large amount of fresh vegetables and fruits to increase the spleen\’s transportation and transformation ability. When the spleen\’s transport and transformation ability becomes stronger, the supplemented nutrients can be easily absorbed. Mom\’s health will get better and better. The conditioning of the body requires a process, whether it is the baby or yourself. Slowly conditioning and improving, and treating it correctly, your body will get better and better!