Many parents say their children often get sick after coming home from kindergarten, recover and then get sick again and have to stay home continuously. Let’s find out why children get sick after starting school and how to prevent it!
1 Why do children often get sick after starting school?
Emotional issues
At the time of starting kindergarten, children are often worried and not happy when they come to school, classes. This is easily noticeable in the first few weeks when children cry, only to improve in the second month.
Due to the first time exposure to a new environment, with teachers, classmates who are all strangers, children appear anxious. Moreover, when going to kindergarten, everything has to be done independently, children will miss their mothers and worry more.
According to experts, when children have unstable emotions, it will easily affect the immune and endocrine system, making them more susceptible to illness.
Emotional issues
Cross-infection
In the autumn and spring seasons, flu outbreaks are easy to occur among children when they go to kindergarten. When staying at home, children only come into contact with a small number of family members who are not sick, so the risk of transmission is low, resulting in fewer illnesses.
On the other hand, at kindergarten, things are different, children often play together, hold hands, hug each other, play with toys together, making it easy to cross-infect many diseases through close contact.
Cross-infection
Changing environment
At home and at school, there will be different environments in terms of eating, resting, hygiene, etc. Therefore, if children are not attentive, they are at risk of getting sick.
Compared to being comfortable at home, without restrictions, children at school will need to follow certain rules. The meals of children will be the same, if a child is picky eater, they will skip meals, if a child doesn’t drink water, the teacher won’t force them. If a child doesn’t take a nap, they won’t have a chance to make up for it like at home.
Changing environment
2 Ways to reduce the rate of children getting sick when going to kindergarten
Relieve your child’s emotions
If the child shows no interest in going to kindergarten, parents need to pay special attention to their child. Parents should practice tasks such as eating, changing clothes, and going to the toilet independently before going to kindergarten Children can be proud of the things they can do without the help of their parents.
When taking the child to class, parents should hug and kiss the child, when picking them up from school, parents should spend more time with them to make them feel secure.
Relieve your child’s emotions
Encourage physical activity
Encouraging children to exercise at home will help their bones, promote the development of the nervous and immune systems, which will reduce the risk of getting sick.
Encourage physical activity
Establish healthy habits
There are some healthy habits that parents should teach their children, such as:
- Eating rule: Eat at the right time, sit at the table, not force the child to eat a lot, remind the child to pour their own drink.
- Hygiene rule: Wash their hands regularly after going to the toilet, before eating.
- Resting rule: Establish a habit of sleeping before 10 pm, at bedtime, the child must go to bed.
Establish healthy habits
Above are some reasons explaining why children often get sick after coming home from kindergarten. Hopefully, the above information will be useful to you!
Source: afamily.vn
