Echinacea for children: a small briefing for parents

How to protect the child from bacteria, infections, how to strengthen his already weakened immunity? That's the main question of exciting modern parents. Let's consider why pediatricians today recommend echinacea. Is Echinacea harmful to children? Or is it just a myth wandering among anxious, frightened parents?

The child's organism is very fragile, helpless before bacteria, infections. And if you consider that the child is always in a large team (in kindergarten, in school), it is clear why children are always ill.

Especially for today the medical statistics (pediatricians) sound alarm. There are several groups of health: one pediatrician is considered to be practically healthy children, in the other - children with minor complications and there is a risk group. So, after all children in recent years have been divided into these groups, it turned out that there are no healthy children at all. Every child has some health problems.

So it turns out that our younger generation needs protection, but you can not put them in a golden cage. Therefore, all efforts should be directed to protection of immunity.

Some moms, after watching the ads, buy yogurt. And right. The food of the child must be varied. And if there are no special problems with health, the child does not go every 3-5 months to the hospital regime, gets vitamins in the right amount, then there is no need for additional funds to strengthen immunity.

But in other cases, doctors first of all strongly recommend that parents give the child echinacea. Modern parents stopped blindly obeying the advice of doctors (sometimes it's even right), so let's see for ourselves: is echinacea useful for children, how and when to apply it.

Echinacea, use for children

Most often, children are susceptible to colds: ARD, ARVI, influenza. Taking echinacea will increase the body's resistance to these and many other viral, infectious diseases. Strengthen immunity. Will allow to struggle with chronic illnesses, inflammatory processes, autoimmune, urological diseases. It will support the body during the rehabilitation period, after a powerful attack on the body using therapeutic methods (radiation, antibacterial). Those. The effect of Echinacea can be called restorative. And it helps in most cases. Even to stimulate the work of the nervous system, and for external use (with long healing wounds). In addition, Echinacea is rich in vitamins, in combination with, for example, rosehip (broth), it enriches the body with the necessary useful vitamins. It remains only a question of how to apply it in the case of children.

Echinacea for children: instruction for parents

Echinacea is produced in different forms, there are also special for children: in preparations, in granules, in dried form, in tincture.

Tincture of Echinacea on alcohol, so it is suitable only for older children (from 12 years old), and then in diluted form, in proportions of 1 to 3 (one part of tincture and three parts of water). At times the child can drink a few drops of diluted tincture. Take should be before meals, 3 times a day. To strengthen the body enough to drink tincture for 1, 2 weeks. In order to help in the treatment of a certain disease - 3-8 weeks (as the doctor says!). Side effects are minimal - only an allergic reaction and that is rare! The main thing is to keep the dosage and not exceed the maximum duration of the course.

Echinacea for children from 4 years will fit in a safe pill - Immunal (a modern drug). One course according to the instructions and the child will not be sick for several months. And if he is already sick, he will recover sooner. Immunal solution can be given to children from 1 year: 20 drops maximum 3 times a day.

For the most Small children (from year) is used Echinacea in the form of tea leaves. You can buy in the pharmacy dried flowers, leaves or roots of Echinacea and brew according to the instructions on the package.

If there is an allergic reaction (yes Echinacea for children is not always suitable), remember the benefits of physical exertion, hardening, other natural means of strengthening immunity, maintaining strength in the body (dog rose, raspberry, cowberry, bilberry).