Cold and rainy autumn days bring all mothers only one question: “What to do to make a child falling sick less often?” And doctors are repeating: “You need to raise immunity!”
We will not argue with the doctors, that immunity is a serious matter. However, while finding the answer to a question “Why do children get sick?”, we would still not put poor immunity in the first place. Or rather, like this: we would say that low immunity in children is not actually a cause today, but rather the result of a long chain of many other reasons …

The reverse side of comfort

Living becomes more comfortable with each passing year. In any case, there is an opportunity to make life more comfortable. And, of course, mothers are trying hard to make sure a child receives that comfort. Especially if you did not have that in your childhood. It is a known fact we strive to provide children with everything we felt lack in childhood.

Who would argue that comfort is good. But we still should remember about sense of measure. Alas, doting mothers cannot boast of this sense. Mothering is immeasurable, and so, alas, often irrational. No wonder that today’s children have become a hothouse plants, maladjusted to threats in the form of dangerous infections, viruses and pathogens of common cold.

Judge for yourself. Children today rarely walk in the courtyards with wind, rain, humidity. They spend day and night in comfortable rooms. Instead of natural elements, they see only comfort, fresh air - only from the window, and communion with nature is reduced to a minimum - a walk on the road to school and back. And often this is not a walk - just a trip on a comfortable car. Parents are not largely concerned about disease prevention, as it’s troublesome. And in order not to torture themselves and a kid, if he is already sick, they give him strong medicines, and even worse - antibiotics. Neither tempering nor independent disease control! So it turns out that comfortable life  is the first reason for low immunity.

Total computerization

Computer became another major blow to immunity. But do not think we are conservatives, and that we will now scare everyone with its danger to health. And still …

Unfortunately, computer became not only a blessing in many ways, but also evil. Opportunities it provides, of course, are attractive. Computer games represent the other worlds, it’s fun to create a new one, and see created instant results, it is tempting to become a lord, it is a guarantee of freedom, when you do what you want and should not adjust to anyone, concede anything.

Computer securely fastened children to comfortable buildings on the one hand, and a sedentary life, on the other, and to formation of a closed, excluded life around them, isolated position, on the third. All this deprived children of the main attitude of a healthy person - adapt to changing conditions around them. Can you imagine a catastrophe, when some external risk factor for health appears?

Family problems

Children organisms are very sensitive to psychological conditions they live in. Child’s health requires love, a sense of his importance in a family, pride for a good relationship between parents, understanding he is protected, not alone, not forgotten. A child receives power and energy  from affluent family relations and loses power, and energy because of family problems. It is not difficult to understand which child is easier to pick up viruses and infections!

And, besides, a child’s illness is a unique way to solve family problems. Example. A child receives not enough attention and love from mother, and, having been ill, he immediately receives care and attention. Or, say, a child is worrying because of quarrels between parents and is afraid they would part, and, having been ill, he gets a lull, when all parents’ thoughts and feelings are focused on his recovery, and there appears an illusion of a family idyll. Of course, all these things are unconscious, not always obvious, but still they should not be neglected.

Internal contradictions

Not only family problems become a trigger for diseases, but also a child’s internal troubles. Especially if a child’s internal contradictions seem insurmountable, and he could not get support. And then the disease is a temporary way out of the impasse, a kind of self-defense.

Here is just a small list of possible children’s problems (small and large) that can trigger the disease:

• Did not do homework
• I’m afraid of control tests
• Studying is difficult, do not want to learn
• Conflicts with teachers, students
• Wants to rest, the body is overloaded and not getting enough sleep

And, of course, the immunity!

Of course, it would be wrong to limit the answer to a question “Why do children get sick?” only to such factors as excessive comfort, total computerization, family problems and children’s internal contradictions. Although, in our opinion, the harm of these factors is decisive. But proper immunity, of course, also should be taken care of. All recommendations for improving immunity are well known: daily routine, proper nutrition, adequate exercising, recreation, tempering.

Everything is important among these activities, because, we believe, there are no children, whose points are absolutely positive. When does your child go to sleep? Does he do morning exercise? Maybe he eats at McDonald’s or the other fast food restaurants? What sports or dance section does your child attend? How many hours does your child walk in the yard? What mobile game he loves? And when did you go out of town for the weekend for the last time? There is much to ponder, is not it …

And another thing. Do not engage in raising immunity by force. Become allies with children on this issue. Become an example for them. To make immunity improvement the basis of life not only for a child, but also for you.

Take care of a child’s health not when he is ill, but until he is healthy. But if a child is still ill, do not limit only to treatment. A child’s illness is a signal you should urgently change something in his and your life.