A healthy Preschooler

As preschools Dubai, Kids Island and Cocoon Nurseries are responsible for making sure that every student in our care is healthy and able to actively take part in their development. Keeping young toddlers free from infection and disease, is a joined effort of parents and teachers. Working together will ensure information is shared, hygiene practices perfected and the children themselves benefit from consistent guidelines from both environments.

Keeping your preschooler healthy is as important ensuring they reach certain milestones. You child will first start mingling with lots of other children when they first start Dubai day care or preschool. It is a time when they will catch illness, injure them and also strengthen their immune systems for the future. They become fussy eaters, cuts and bruises become an everyday cry. Whether at home or at school, they will be curious and touch everything, and sometimes even want to taste it all too.

It is not to say that you should keep your child locked up 24/7 so they are arms way from danger, but taking precautionary steps to help them overcome their injury if it happens, as well as take necessary steps to ensure they remain healthy is responsibility that falls on us adults.

Children are prone to illness and in most cases, catch it from each other at school or in the playground. Falling sick is common and necessary as they build their immune systems, gaining resistance to each disease as they grow older. If you feel your child is sick keep them at home, until they are not contagious and are well enough to attend to school. Preschool activities demand physical activity, which may exhaust a sick child greatly pushing him to relapse no sooner they are well again. Avoid being around your child, if you feel you may have caught something as well, hand over responsibility to the other parent for a day or two, and maintain high standards of hygiene when anyone in the family is sick.

Preventing disease is as important as curing it. Make sure you child understands the importance of washing their hands before and after eating, playing outside, or touching something that might be filled with germs will go a long way in disease prevention. Help your child learn the right way to wash their hands as well. This will help to educate and improve their own levels of personal hygiene even when not under your supervision.
Let them get lots of sleep at night as it strengthens their mind and body. Sleeping also helps to fight disease and infection, and a common cold or fever will break soon after a long nap.

Young children generally require between 10 and 12 hours of sleep every night. A short nap in the afternoon is a recommendation made by many paediatricians, as children actually tire easily and aren’t able to go long hours without actually taking a rest. Tired children become fussy eaters, have bad mood swings, can become angry and unwell quite easily.

A healthy diet inclusive of lots of fruits, vegetables, proteins, and water is important in a child’s diet. In modern times, many parents depend on take-away meals or quick-fixes to make up for the lack of time to cook wholesome well rounded meals at home. If you feel your family is not getting the required nutrients every day, make it a point to ensure your child has plenty of fruits and juices to snack on during the day, compensating during the weekend.

Some doctors recommend giving your preschooler a dose of multivitamins each day. But there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. So unless your toddler is a picky eater, has a iron deficiency, is lactose intolerant, or has some kind of food allergy, substituting vital minerals and vitamins with a supplement is a good move, but it is not necessary to give them whole doses of vitamins and minerals unless prescribed by your paediatrician.

Always consult your doctor for health advice when it comes to your toddler, but following a few good routines everyday to keep your child on the right track will do them a world of good.