Without AC at home, how to keep it cool in and around kids?
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.
How to help toddlers fight heat?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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?
Remove water bottles from the fridge.
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.
It means his immunity is weak. Try giving him ginger garlic juice with honey ; mulethi powder with honey ; steam at bedtime.
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 ?
Personal message to me. Apply coconut oil and neem oil in the ratio 7:3 on the affected area twice a day.
My pediatrician advised me to give him breast milk only. Then how can I give him a pinch of turmeric?
Give turmeric in water then.
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.
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.
How to make sattu water?
You get sattu atta in market. Add one teaspoon in water with lemon and salt and sugar and mix it and give.
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?
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.
When we steam, shall we add salt and turmeric?
Nope plain water steam
Doctor, my son is only 2 months old. Is it safe to give him milk with a pinch of turmeric?
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.
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.
Does he eat ghe, butter.
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.
Personal message to me: her skin picture and also try adding rice water and a few drops of almond oil in her moisturizer.
Children play outside in the heat or sometimes there is school in the month of April. I find that they feel drained out after a long bus drive. I usually feed them some jaggery and after 5 mins give normal Matka water and let them sit and rest for a while. What else can be done to stabilize them after exposure to heat?
You are already doing it. Besides that, maintain water intake ; bath twice ; give sattu water
My son is 7 months old. I want to know which water should we provide (Aquaguard / Boiled)?
Prefer aquaguard as generally in future he won’t be getting boiled water everywhere.
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.
Apply lotion.
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.
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 .
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?
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.
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.
You can do eye exercises at home. Do tratak with the help of a candle at home. For vitamin E include mushrooms ; cheese ; egg.
Please guide healthy vegetarian food for summer
Whatever is seasonal and available
Dr. Nidhi Agarwal – How to handle Summer Heat
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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