Water is the most powerful hardening factor. For preschool children, hand washing must be included in the daily routine - in the morning, before and after meals, after using the toilet and going for a walk. In addition to its hygienic value, washing hands with cool water plays a hardening role. After a while, you can expand the water hardening regime - alternately wash your hands up to the elbows, neck and face with warm and cold water. Brushing your teeth and rinsing your mouth with cool water is one of the options for local hardening of the oropharynx. Gargling with cool water after eating has a good hardening effect. According to reviews, after a series of such rinses, the incidence of inflammatory diseases of the nasopharynx decreases. It is recommended to begin general hardening with water in children by wiping the body with a damp terry mitten. First, only the arms, legs and neck are wiped, gradually increasing the area of wiping, the temperature of the water and the duration of the procedure. After wiping, you need to rub the skin intensively with a dry towel. Only after such preparation can youresort to dousing. They begin dousing with water at a temperature of 39 degrees, after 3-4 days it is reduced by 1-2 degrees.
In summer you can shower outdoors, in cool seasons - indoors. With this type of hardening of preschool children, such as dousing, gradualness is also important. To get used to it, start dousing from the feet, gradually rising higher. General dousing is recommended from the age of 9 months. In addition to dousing, hardening water procedures include a shower from 1.5 years and swimming in natural reservoirs from 3 years.
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