How to Handle Summer Heat

Expert session Questions and Answers

Hydrate them with nimbu Pani coconut water buttermilk kanji etc ; also use double layered curtains to keep your house cool in daylight ; make your kids wear loose clothes.

For toddlers try giving them a few spoons of water every hour ; do cold water sponging of the body twice a day ; before sleep add a few drops of eucalyptus and lavender oil on their pillows.

Yeah but whole day you can’t give these. Better options are add jaggery or honey to water as it will prevent cough formation too in this weather.

Give lukewarm water with ginger juice pinch of turmeric and honey; gargle and steam is good to prevent any infection at this hour ; give mulethi with honey if cough is there ; for cold add one drop of eucalyptus and rosemary oil on handkerchief and let them inhale.

Twice a day. If he is sweating at night it means his body has heat cold imbalance. Give him more water and try giving milk with a pinch of turmeric.

To increase her appetite, give ginger juice with honey before meals twice a day. Try giving her sattu water / barley water / ajwain saunf water so that her liver gets clean and start feeling hungry.

Remove water bottles from the fridge.

It means his immunity is weak. Try giving him ginger garlic juice with honey ; mulethi powder with honey ; steam at bedtime.

Personal message to me. Apply coconut oil and neem oil in the ratio 7:3 on the affected area twice a day.

Give turmeric in water then.

For that you need a personal consultation. For pimples apply aloe vera gel after bath. For dry cough give mulethi powder and honey. For a runny nose give steam.

You get sattu atta in market. Add one teaspoon in water with lemon and salt and sugar and mix it and give.

That’s not normal. She might be having some deficiencies. For balancing body heat try giving her ajwain saunf jeera water morning before breakfast and give her banana empty stomach.

Nope plain water steam

Not with milk if he is on your feed. One tablespoon of lukewarm water with a pinch of turmeric. Or else you can also try putting lavender oil one drop on his pillow.

Does he eat ghe, butter.

Personal message to me: her skin picture and also try adding rice water and a few drops of almond oil in her moisturizer.

You are already doing it. Besides that, maintain water intake ; bath twice ; give sattu water

Prefer aquaguard as generally in future he won’t be getting boiled water everywhere.

Apply lotion.

Can be due to hormonal changes. Waking up thrive doesn’t mean insomnia. It’s a disturbed sleep pattern to avoid giving her water post 8 pm .

Increase the intake of ghee and white butter. That’s more than sufficient, you need to take care of your diet. Include ghee in your diet.

You can do eye exercises at home. Do tratak with the help of a candle at home. For vitamin E include mushrooms ; cheese ; egg.

Whatever is seasonal and available

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Nidhi Agarwal – How to handle Summer Heat

Nidhi Agarwal is a Medical Practitioner and Doctor. She is a homeopathic paediatrician and wellness coach by profession. She runs her health centre – Prakash Holistic Health Care Centre in Viman Nagar, Pune. Nidhi Agarwal is a caring, skilled professional, dedicated to simplifying what is often a very complicated and confusing area of health care. Her expertise lie in the fields of nutrition, lifestyle, counselling for children and parents. Nidhi Agarwal believes in the holistic improvement of mind in unison with the body. She also specialises in providing behaviour therapy for kids and parents.

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How to Handle Summer Heat

Without AC at home, how to keep it cool in and around kids?

How to help toddlers fight heat?

My daughter is 6.5 years old and doesn’t want to have much water. Is it fine if I add some flavor as she loves lemon juice and lassi?

In this hot summer if kids get cold and cough how to keep them warm and recover from cold as kids won’t agree for steam and be warm.

My son is 2 months 11 days old. He’s prone to cold. Normally I give him a warm water bath. I’ve found that he sweats at night. How many times should I give him a bath?

My daughter is 8.5 years old and she is very thin, doesn’t want to eat. Her water intake is very poor and it’s not good as summer has started so please guide how to improve her diet or what should I give her in summer so she’ll gain some weight?

Children insist on having ice-cold water now and then as a result they suffer from cold and cough despite telling them to have Matka-water. Is there any solution to this?

My son is 3 years old and even in this hot weather, he has cough and cold. Actually round the year he has a running nose. What should I do because the above suggested liquid options will increase to his running nose.

My 5 month old is having prickly heat (heat rash / ghamoriya) on his body near the neck area, cheeks and head from the last 4 days and it is increasing. Also in the centre of the head there is redness like a rash. What to do ?

My pediatrician advised me to give him breast milk only. Then how can I give him a pinch of turmeric?

My son is 13 months old. 1. Due to the weather he has small pimples around his neck. 2. He have dry cough and runny nose 3. Healthy diet for the summer Please guide me on these issues.

How to make sattu water?

My younger daughter is 3 years old and she sweats a lot even in winter while sleeping. Is it normal ? In summer she sweats a lot, what should I do to reduce her body’s internal heat?

When we steam, shall we add salt and turmeric?

Doctor, my son is only 2 months old. Is it safe to give him milk with a pinch of turmeric?

My son is 3.5 years old. He has very dry fingertips that get cracked sometimes. I tried coconut oil and 1 ointment given by dr. But still it doesn’t help. He drinks enough water in a day though.

My daughter is 13 years old. Right from her birth her skin, whole body is very dry and scaly. During season change her skin is very itchy and many patches are seen. I have tried applying coconut oil everyday but of no help. I use moisture x soap for her. Please suggest something.

My son is 7 months old. I want to know which water should we provide (Aquaguard / Boiled)?

I have one more question. After taking a bath should we apply lotion or oil in Summer for kids who are below ten? Or need not to apply anything.

Any advice on child insomnia? She is 9 but wakes up 2 to 3 times at night. Not sure if it is for the bathroom or out of anxiety.

I’ve also found that according to my son’s age, his skin is a little dry. I apply olive oil on his whole body before bath and apply a moisturizer cream after bath. What else should I do to keep his skin supple?

In this scenario in fact I feel staying indoors we are missing out on the good aspects of going out. 1. Vitamin d 2. Eye exercises ( staying indoors our eyes are not seeing far away things , hence strained ) Any suggestions on these ? If you think this is not relevant to the topic, you may skip it.

Please guide healthy vegetarian food for summer

Nidhi Agarwal – How to handle Summer Heat