Is your child getting sick again and again? Are you worried about giving your child too many medicines? Do you think your child has a weakened immunity or are you concerned that the medicines are negatively affecting your child’s body? If the answer is yes, then this doctor has all the answers.
Dr. Nihar Parekh, an established pediatrician, recently took to Instagram to bust all the myths about children’s immunity, particularly in the current scenario, where kids are developing infections and allergies again and again.
Here’s what the expert shared.
Myth 1: Frequent illness means poor immunity in children
No. According to Dr. Parekh, if a child is falling sick every 15-20 days right now – sick in the sense with allergic cough and cold or fever cough and cold i.e. allergy or an infection – it doesn’t mean that the child has a poor immunity.
“These are different bugs. In fact, it is a good sign that your child has the capacity to find these viruses and bacteria,” he explains.
Myth 2: Medications can weaken children’s immunity
Parents often worry whether giving their children antibiotics or antivirals for cough and cold medicines all the time will drop their immunity.
Responding to this concern, Dr Parekh shares, “If the right medicine is given for the right reason that is antibiotic for a bacterial infection, anti-viral for an influenza, cough cold syrups for cough and cold, fever medicine for a fever. No medicine given in the right form with the right dosage drops your child’s immunity, does not damage their liver or kidney given as prescribed by your pediatrician.”
Myth 3: Is there a medicine that can put an end to your child’s sickness?
“There is no medicine in the entire world that can stop your child from getting sick,” says the pediatrician.
According to him, there are multivitamins and certain medications that can aid and help and strengthen certain systems from getting affected again and again. However there is no ‘golden trump card’ that can stop their children from getting sick at all.
The bottomline is that children will get sick, but that does not mean they have a poor immunity. In addition, medicines do not further weaken your child’s immunity given that they are given as prescribed by the doctor.
The pediatrician ends the video with a small recommendation. “A well-rounded sleep, a good diet, good hygiene practices and all the immunizations at the right time. This is all you can do to keep your child’s immunity going strong,” he concludes.
Post time: Mar-01-2023