Summer is dominated by the evil of summer heat and dampness, with fire evil. The principles of health preservation are: invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, nourishing lung and kidney, and treating winter diseases in summer. Chinese medicine is hot and dry in summer, which is easy to damage body fluid and consume gas, thus damaging healthy qi and reducing resistance, especially for children with delicate viscera, which need to pay special attention to health care. In ancient times, there was a saying that "nourishing yang in spring and summer", and children's own physiological characteristics were "spleen deficiency", so children's spleen and stomach should be taken care of in summer.

"clothing"-clothing

In summer, the human body and the outside world are full of yang. Under normal circumstances, children can ensure a short-sleeved underwear and avoid wearing open-backed pants when they are outdoors or in places without air conditioning. If you are in an air-conditioned room or a low-temperature shopping mall, you need to prepare a long and thin coat and put it on if necessary. Try to choose light-colored clothes in summer. Light color is not easy to absorb heat, lest children sweat too much and attract mosquitoes. Try to choose light, loose and breathable cotton clothes, which will help prevent prickly heat, acute urticaria and insect dermatitis.

"food"-food

The summer climate is hot, people's digestive function is weak, and the diet should be light, not greasy and sweet. In diet, keep cool and eat more sweets, and the yang will increase in summer, so as to conform to the trend of keeping the yang cool and not damage the spleen yang. In addition to cold food, we should also pay attention to directly feeling the cold, such as low air conditioning temperature in summer, or walking barefoot on the tile floor, which may easily lead to cold in the abdomen and feet and cause exogenous diseases.

"Life"-Environment

Go to bed late and get up early in summer to adapt to the changes in nature. "Summer heat is easy to hurt qi". Summer heat can make people sweat too much, make people dizzy, chest tightness, palpitation, thirst, nausea and even coma. Therefore, when arranging labor or physical exercise, we should avoid the scorching sun and pay attention to strengthening protection. After lunch, you need to arrange a nap, one is to avoid the hot trend, and the other is to recover from fatigue. It's hot and sweaty in summer, so clothes should be washed and changed frequently. Wearing wet clothes or clothes that have just been aired for a long time can make people sick.

Parents should pay attention to disease prevention and health care.

Prevent heat from hurting people.

Summer is very hot and rainy, and high temperature and humidity are easy to take advantage of, which is easy to cause diseases such as summer onset and heatstroke. Before entering summer, you should take the products of tonifying lung, strengthening spleen and benefiting qi, and eat less greasy and thick taste to reduce the burden on the spleen and stomach. In summer, you should take the prescription of aromatic turbidity and clearing away damp-heat.

Winter disease treated in summer

In summer, the human body and the outside world are full of yang, which is most suitable for treating some diseases that are easy to occur in winter, such as chronic cough and asthma. You can choose dog days to consider dog days.