Bathing in natural water

Bathing in natural water is a fairly strong procedure, since it combines the effect of water( usually cool even in the summer), air and sometimes the sun.

In summer, you can take your children with you to the beach and bathe them with you. The duration of bathing varies depending on the temperature of the water. Choking of the chin the kid will always let know that he is cold and should stop bathing. Bathing should be active, you need to drive the child along the water, stimulating his movements, immerse him under water, dive with him.

When bathing in sea water, the heat of the body is higher than in fresh water. However, sea water because of the salts contained in it has a more beneficial effect on the body.

More details on such a strong procedure as immersion of an infant in an ice hole, around which there are so many all sorts of gossip and contradictory opinions. This procedure causes a particularly critical reaction among orthodox doctors and indignant cries of unprepared spectators.

Indeed, we are not at all used to seeing a child, especially a newborn, in icy water. Above we gave observations from the book of V. Zhuk "Mother and Child", which speak in favor of baptism in cold water. However, even earlier, apparently, not at all this spectacle evoked positive emotions. MV Lomonosov, who wrote: "... Priests, not only rural but also urban, baptize infants in the winter in the coldest water, sometimes with ice, pointing to the prescription in the trebnik to make the water natural,without admixture. .. When cold water with ice will sweep the limbs, there are often signs of epileptic illness, and although the fife will survive, but in the following diseases, which every baby should overcome, and especially when the first teeth come out, this deadlyillness will be more comfortable. .. Stubbornwho want to forcibly baptize with cold water, I honor hangmen, then what they want after their homelands and christenings soon and a funeral for their own self-interest. "

As you can see, the diametrically opposite opinion. And now "hangmen" are revered by many of those parents who immerse the child in an ice hole. However, up to now, when hundreds of infants have already known the ice hole in recent years, no one has observed signs of a "falling sickness", but, on the contrary, they have observed the cure of many common diseases in children, especially infectious diseases. And when a child has teeth, bathing in icy water makes his suffering much easier. And is it true that "every baby after overcome must" certain diseases? Thanks to the natural way of life and tempering, many children today, despite numerous prophecies, have not become ill with nothing but light colds, without doing any vaccination.(And maybe these "next illnesses" were taking place in such form?)

The opinions of orthodox doctors, as already noted, are mostly negative. They talk about the so-called price of adaptation, which the child will pay because of such procedures. Reference is also made to the lack of scientific data( which naturally can not appear if the problem is rejected immediately).

Here is the opinion of A. Kolgushkin, a well-known specialist in hardening:

"The primary positive result of hardening with ice water often manifests itself immediately: the children get stronger before their eyes, get rid of colds, develop faster, but the remote consequences are no less important,for example, a girl, her body is more tender and receptive to strong stresses, to temperature fluctuations of the environment, to cold, to skin irritations. It has increased neuropsychic excitability, insufficient resistance to strokesThe child on the way to the flowering of femininity, maturity and maternity must undergo several stages of development: childhood, adolescence, adolescence, when the most complex physiological and mental processes occur, harmoniously developing all the vital systems of the body, laying the foundation of health for life, includingability to motherhood as one of the most important criteria for health. However, before the motherhood period, the experiment should last, that is, up to 18-20 years. Then one can confidently say that bathing in snow and cold water to a child, adolescent, girl is useful at all stages of development, that they do not have remote negative consequences. "

The point of view is quite reasonable and, probably, many with it could agree. However, strangely enough, when talking about the long-term consequences of the early onset of hardening, few people think about the long-term consequences of treatment( more accurately speak of healing) of infants and newborns with antibiotics and psychotropic drugs, the consequences of mental trauma at birth, guaranteed under today's obstetrical system, the long-term consequencesmass immunization. Today, an increasing number of parents are convinced of the viciousness of the medical approach to the child. Most medical workers do not notice this, despite the growth of childhood morbidity, relying on the newest drugs and procedures, creating new vaccines and strengthening care, planting the same old principles. If it is true that health is laid down from childhood, then according to today's level of health of the younger generation, we can quite judge the consequences of what is offered to children. As for motherhood, the number of infertile women and gynecological patients speaks for itself.

It is true that a child must go through several stages of development, having their own characteristics, to maturity and maturity. But here we have to talk about the dosage of procedures and hardly about the rejection of them "until 16-18 years, until the end of puberty, when the body is basically formed. ..".In modern conditions, it may be more logical to believe the ancient experience of peoples and the subjective feelings of parents than to wait for any scientific justification. For the time being we see only the positive results of such hardening and the negative consequences of the traditional approach to children.

Under appropriate conditions, immersion in an ice-hole is for a child affected by physiological stress and therefore should not cause loss in the form of a payment for adaptation, which is clearly visible from the previously described properties of physiological and pathological stresses.

Here's how to answer the question about the possibility of immersing a child in the hole IA Arshavsky: "... yes, to immerse the child, even the first weeks of life, in such water and immediately can be taken, no negative consequences on the subsequent development of the child is notwill affect ".But at the same time he stresses the importance of controlling the degree of impact. The criterion is an increase in muscle tone and motor activity. The absence of these reactions will indicate that the impact is crossing the boundaries of physiological stress.

However, IA Arshavsky further notes: "So, instantaneous immersion is permissible, but it is not necessary for hardening, and therefore, apparently, undesirable."

One could agree with a famous scientist, if not for one circumstance. Here's an unpretentious story in the pictures for children: the boys play ice hockey on a frozen river;one of them falls through the ice, wet his feet, after which the comrades help him quickly reach the house. Final story: the boy in bed, with a thick compress on his throat, on the nightstand a bottle of medicine, and around the friends who came to visit him. The educational task of this story is simple and clear: you can not leave a friend in trouble. However, incidentally, there is another logical connection between the soaked feet and a severe cold. This connection is firmly established in the minds of most people, and no cold sweating will help to destroy it. After all the boy has failed not in a bath, and in an ice-hole.

Even when dousing with cold water at home, there always remains a subconscious fear, in front of the water in natural conditions, that is, in the ice hole, and also before the snow.

Recall that it is natural tempering that will have the greatest value in the formation of the child's ecological thinking.

What are the indispensable conditions to be observed when immersing children in an ice hole?

First, the natural way of life of a child. Those who criticize the bathing of children in the ice-hole can be considered right in the sense that for a child who has been brought up traditionally, and therefore, has a disturbed thermoregulation, such a load can be too strong.

Secondly, parents themselves( or at least one of them) should use this procedure in their hardening. In this strong procedure, especially possible subconscious fears should be excluded. Psychic attitude should be extremely positive.

Thirdly, it is highly desirable that the mother be engaged in tempering during pregnancy, including bathing in the hole.

Fourthly, this "peak" procedure should be conducted against the background of other hardening measures( gymnastics, swimming, air and sun, etc.).

It should also be noted that this is not at all about "winter swimming", that is, about regular and frequent bathing in the ice-hole, which can be lengthy in time. It's about episodic diving, usually not more than once a week.(More frequent only in cases of certain diseases.) With regular frequent bathing, the body's reaction can cross the boundaries of physiological stress."Frequent and systematic repetition of such procedures exhausts the adaptive possibilities and may later be affected by a delay in development and a decrease in immunobiological resistance."

Some children begin to sink children into the ice hole with a month's age, and sometimes even earlier. As a rule, it's better to get into the water with the baby yourself, dip it( including the head) one or several times in a row. After that, wrap in a blanket, if possible go into a warm room and attach it to the chest.

Once again we note that, as with any other procedure, the parents' preparedness and mood for a positive result are important here.