Used in the absence of a shower, an uncomfortable apartment, for example. Or the water doesn't reach your floor.

In short, where there are no conditions - on the street after training, on the train, etc.. Or when children refuse to shower: \! "

Some children tolerate douches more easily than showers, due to the short duration of exposure and the absence of mechanical irritation of the skin from the shower. Leave the head dry as a rule..

Or went outside for a workout, took two buckets of water. Exercised, undressed the child, or separated themselves and doused the body with water.

We adjust the temperature as in the shower: the bucket is hot, the bucket is cool, on the verge of pleasure, with a gradual - in 1.5-2 months. up to 18-18 ° С - decrease.

You can alternate the buckets: warm - cool, warm - cool. But as a rule, this is laborious, and they simply pour two buckets (on the chest and back) with cool. Simple, very fast and effective.

Baths.

As a rule, contrasting, used in combination with showers or douches. He sat in hot water for 2-3 minutes, rubbed the breast and back with his hands in water - stood on his feet, poured cool (cold) water from a shower or a bucket and sat down again. They repeated it several times, then, as usual, they ended up dousing, got wet, ran. Or vice versa.

The child sits in cool water, plays, after 3-4 minutes you pour hot water or a shower over him and put him back in the bath.

In children, the thermoregulation system is still not as spoiled as in adults, and such situations are not uncommon.. Mom: " Can sit for half an hour in a cool bath. Yes, I would have been frozen long ago " I believe that in such cases, you need to trust the child more.. Voluntarily no one froze yet.

Cold baths are usually used in children with attacks of suffocation to relieve the latter. The scheme is usual: facial massage - chest massage - cold bath - blotting with a towel - active or passive warming.

At first, the child just squats in a cold bath: sat down - got up, sat down - got up. Then delayed while squatting.

After 1-2 months of practicing any kind of intense hardening, any child is able to lie in cold water for 10-15 seconds. Like every doctor, I am apparently still a conservative and, unlike Tolkachev's methods, I do not recommend lying for more than 1 minute, because. a five-minute cold bath can trigger the development of kidney disease, for example, if a person has a genetically determined predisposition to this.

And one minute is absolutely safe for all people.. (If you often have to relieve shortness of breath with baths, then once again carefully read the wonderful book " Tolkachev).

If there is chronic pyelonephritis, for example, here it is possible to engage in intensive hardening, but only under the supervision of a doctor, according to a strictly individual program, and it is necessary to apply monitoring methods, and not an assessment of the final result: if you get sick, you do not get sick.

As a rule, for such diseases, we use the same methods, we just halve the procedure time and regular monitoring of analyzes, naturally.

Rubdowns.

Exposing ourselves to the metered cold effects of wind, snow, water, we accustom ourselves, we adapt the body to an unexpected loss of heat. And if a person does not organically tolerate cold water? Or mom thinks that any cold is only harm for her child? How to be here?

In such cases, we use the method of evaporative hardening or hot wiping, developed by Konstantin Viktorovich Plekhanov, nephew of Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov, a well-known theoretician of Marxism.. Since childhood, he often suffered from colds, understood the need for hardening, but could not bring himself to even touch cold water..

Once he took a bowl of hot water, put a napkin in there, squeezed it slightly and quickly, over and over again, wiped his entire body. I immediately repeated. It was very pleasant, there was no thrill of waiting for cold splashes. The whole procedure took less than a minute. He repeated rubdowns with hot water daily, and soon felt immune to colds, and then the fear of cold water disappeared ("

What's the matter, how can hot water quench? This is why the method is called evaporative hardening (as opposed to contact hardening - shower, bath, dousing) because water, evaporating from the surface of the body, carries away heat, in full accordance with the law of physics.

On the scale of cold loads, this corresponds to " Previously, this method was used in almost all kindergartens.. It is simple. We undress the child to the waist, moisten and wring out the towel in a basin of hot water, wipe his hands, chest, back. Then we wipe dry and dress the child or warm it up with movement.

After 4-5 days, you can wipe the whole body: arms, legs, chest, back. Gradually, in 1.5-3 months, we reduce the temperature of the water: hot, warm, lukewarm, cool, cold. Rubdown, as I already said, is done in case of panic fear of a child or mother in front of cold water, as well as in the absence of a shower or bath at home. Well, in the rarest cases of an allergic reaction to cold water.

There is now evidence that evaporation hardening is more physiological and faster than contrast hardening..

However, I still like contrast, as I find it easier to use.. In addition, after a contrast shower, when we poured cold water on the child, the body received a signal: \! " And we can take the child even to a cold room, even to the wind - he will not get sick. And after hot wiping - the " So a person gets sick after a bath, when, without feeling the cold, he goes out into the breeze to freshen up.

And one more feature of contrast hardening. Due to the fact that not only cold, but also heat receptors are trained with it, the child can more easily endure not only cold, but also heat. According to Professor Yu. Zmanovsky (g. Moscow), dealing with the problems of thermoregulation, children hardened by contrast acclimatize when the climate changes in 1-3 days instead of 12-14.

That is, such a child can be taken to the south for at least 10 days - it will still be useful.

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