For older children, some OTC medicines can help relieve the symptoms-but won’t change the natural course of the cold or make it go away faster,” “A cold is self-limited, and patients will get better on their own in a week or two without any need for medications. Children with weak immune system get impacted with cold. The environment is same for adults also, but they don’t catch cold easily. The primary reason for their cold is the infection from a different kind of cold every time. Most of the children are affected with cold every month after they start going to school or a creche. After that, particular bacteria will never be able to affect your child when its signature is recorded in the child’s immune system. In most of the cases, the child develops immunity against the bacteria that has caused an infection. There are more than 30 types of bacteria that can cause cold in infants. Cold can be caused due to the change in the weather conditions, bacterial infection, viral infection or due to a side effect of an another disease. Understanding, what is cold?Ĭold is a body condition, in which symptoms like sneezing or mucus coming out of the nose are observed. Let’s not get into the medical details of cold & cough but understand it at a very basic level. I’m pointing my fingers towards the immune system of our children. I’m pretty sure, that you have understood what I am trying to convey. The caterpillar did not use its wings and thus, they were not having the same strength they are supposed to have.

Its wings were weak because the struggle to come out of the cocoon actually gives strength to its wings and internal system.Īnd, as it did not happen the way it should have to because the boy has helped the caterpillar in coming out of the cocoon. It did not turn into a beautiful butterfly. He helped caterpillar and progressed in taking the caterpillar out of the cocoon.Ĭan you guess, what happened next? Caterpillar did not survive for long. He thought of helping the caterpillar and taking it out of the cocoon. He took his legs out of cocoon but failed to come out.Ī generous child was looking at the scene very carefully. The caterpillar was struggling very hard but the cocoon was difficult to break. There was a caterpillar, trying to come out of the cocoon. Have you heard the story of a caterpillar? which never became a beautiful butterfly. I realized that most of the common diseases happen for a reason, basically to build the immune system of the child at an early stage of life. If my child sneezes at 2:00 PM, I was there at the doctor’s clinic at 4:00 PM asking for medicine for my little one.īut then, I met one wise doctor who helped me out in understanding that what actually cold, cough and fever is. When my child was born, I was also like any other parent, the over-worried one about the health of my child. But, I am a parent of a three-year-old child and I want to share all the things I have learned about common diseases. I am neither a medical practitioner nor a health advisor. We must think whether we are supporting our kid’s immune system or making it more vulnerable to future diseases by over protecting our children from all the common diseases.Īll the diseases are not that much harmful. These three diseases are very common and most of the children get impacted with either cold and cough the every other month.Īre you also giving your baby syrup for fever and cold?Īre you one of those parents who get their babies injection for fever and cold?Īre you also giving medicine for baby cold?ĭon’t follow the crowd but use your own brain. We give medicine immediately to our children as soon as we see any symptoms of cold, cough or fever.

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