Pediatrics

Children and teenagers in many countries visit baths on a par with adults. In Russia, for example, earlier, especially in the villages, the smallest children were taken to the bathhouse. In many countries, the bath has been used for a long time and is now used as a preventive and therapeutic method for a number of childhood diseases, primarily respiratory organs, as well as for rheumatic and skin diseases.

In the absence of contraindications, a bath can be visited by any child, however, a sparing regimen should be developed for the child. At first, it is necessary to reduce the time of the child's stay in the bath, especially in the steam bath, to lower the temperature, not to allow sharp cooling. You can not force a child to do anything in a bathhouse.

In principle, a bath can be visited by any healthy child, starting with the youngest infants once a week. A sauna or a sauna can be prescribed to a child

as a treatment procedure for nonspecific diseases of the lungs and upper respiratory tract, as well as diseases of the skin and the musculoskeletal system,

. In early childhood, a bath can be potentially dangerous if there are severe metabolic disorders in the body,latent injuries that have arisen in the perinatal period, the bath may cause convulsive conditions in connection with the pathology of the central nervous system. It should be remembered that the occurrence of cardiac arrhythmia in a child in a bath is not ruled out. With congenital heart disease, it is better not to drive to the baby bath.

Relative contraindications to visiting the bath are chronic diseases of the kidneys and urinary tract, gastrointestinal tract, liver, as well as endocrine disorders, purulent or wet skin diseases. Only after their elimination the child will be able to visit the sauna.

Children's bath is contraindicated in acute infectious diseases accompanied by high fever. The bath can not be visited during seizures of various etiologies: after perinatal injuries, with all forms of epilepsy in the child, after injuries and surgical interventions in the head area. Sauna is contraindicated for children suffering from cancer. It can not be visited by children with lipoid nephrosis, subacute and chronic disorders in the proximal or distal sections of the tubules, progressive interstitial lung fibrosis, idiopathic hemosiderosis of the lungs, and widespread bronchiectasias.