Tips for taking Care and Comforting Sick Child
- Do make children wear comfortable clothing.
- Set room temperature at comfortable level or provide sufficient covers.
- Be emotionally present for them - Hold their hands, give lots of hugs, cuddle them and give lots of love.
- Play silly games and distract them. Here are toys your kid can hug and feel the warmth in sickness.
- Tell them their favorite stories or talk about their favorite days and narrate to them what happened that day and also plan that when they will recover, how they will spend the day.
- Book reading do wonders in sickness
- Play favorites rhymes and songs on Alexa
- Slight amount of screen-time in sickness is okay as long as the kid is relaxed and entertained.
- Honey to serve one spoon to soothe the throat or cater to bitter mouth. (Not for child less than twelve months of age)
- Saline Nasal spray to relieve blocked nose
- Hot water bag for comfort of aching body
- Thermometer to measure and record body temperature at required intervals.
- Dry tissue and wet tissue to take care of extra mess which sickness brings
Hope these tips will help in the quick recovery of a child. Also don't forget to take care of yourself too while taking care of sick children. And do take help and support from others.
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