Text: Irina Sergeeva
Coniferous baths for children, like other medicinal baths, are not only the prevention of childhood diseases, but sometimes also an effective treatment for babies as young as one year old. Only a doctor can prescribe therapeutic baths for a child, but we should know how they will help our baby and what rules must be followed when performing them.
Coniferous baths for children do not have any contraindications (although, of course, a child should not swallow such “water”), but they do have one very important indication. They are prescribed for increased excitability, insomnia, rickets in infants (with salt) and malnutrition. Needless to say, now, when even adults are very often in a state of heightened nervous excitability Do children especially need soothing pine baths? However, like any medicine, which, in essence, is a pine bath for children, it has its own rules that must be strictly followed.
Good for pine baths:
Bad for pine baths:
Of course, the first thing you need to do is prepare the bath itself. Wash it thoroughly with baking soda and then rinse hot water. Pour halfway cold water, then hot. Immediately before starting the procedure, add a medicinal component - pine needle extract is sold in pharmacies. The solution should be as follows: 2 ml of pine extract per 10 liters (bucket) of water. Always use a special thermometer to measure the water temperature! Its temperature should be 35-36.5 "C.
Pine baths for children last 7-10 minutes. Baths are carried out every other day, the course of treatment is 20 baths.
At the slightest hint of discomfort for the baby, you should immediately stop bathing; if the redness does not go away after the bath, consult a doctor.
Taking a bath is the key to cleanliness and health. That is why every family has a daily ritual - bathing an infant. Various herbal decoctions are added to the bath: chamomile, string, oak bark and others. But not everyone knows about the benefits of taking pine baths.
To prepare such baths, concentrates from pine needles, cones and bark are used. coniferous trees. Most often on pharmacy shelves you can find extracts from fir, pine, cedar, spruce and juniper. The list of types of coniferous extracts is quite large: dry briquettes, liquid solution, in the form of tablets or powder, sea salt, soaked in concentrate. And if you’re not too lazy, you can cook useful solution on one's own.
The needles are rich in useful elements, namely:
Despite the great benefits of pine baths, only a doctor who knows the child’s condition should prescribe them to infants. Pine baths are prescribed for children over six months of age. But if the child was born weak or, then such baths are prescribed earlier, as soon as the baby gets stronger.
Baths with the addition of pine concentrates not only have a pleasant smell, but also have a beneficial effect on the entire body.
Pine baths are prescribed if infant, susceptible to frequent respiratory diseases. Usually the rate is 10-20 baths, every day or every other day. Often, after the first procedures, parents notice that the baby falls asleep better and becomes calmer. And then full course Healing baths are bypassed by the baby. The interval between courses should not be less than two months, and before each course the child must be shown to the pediatrician.
Benefits of pine baths for infants:
Despite the fact that pine baths are useful, there are contraindications for their use. That is why only the attending physician who knows about the child’s health condition should not prescribe these procedures.
For what diseases are pine baths contraindicated:
Contraindications also include individual intolerance and local allergic reactions. If, after taking a pine bath, a child experiences a nervous state, anxiety, or skin rashes appear, it is necessary to stop the course before consulting a doctor.
Making a pine bath is very simple. For infant It is enough to fill 2/3 of an adult bathtub with water. Or half a baby bath, so that the water level is below the border of the heart. Water must be within 35-37 degrees, duration of adoption no more than 15 minutes.
The child must be calm, in a good mood and completely healthy. It is not recommended to take baths on a full stomach, preferably an hour and a half after eating.
Pine baths are taken in the evening, an hour before bedtime. The baby must be in a relaxed state and is not allowed active games in the bath. After taking a pine bath, the child must be rinsed in the shower.
Extract dosage for infants depending on the type of pine extract:
If desired, you can prepare a pine infusion from collected needles and cones. Fresh natural extract will be much healthier, but its production will take longer.
To prepare, you need to pour 500 grams of raw material with 3-4 liters of water and boil over low heat for half an hour. After the time has passed, cover with a lid and let it brew for 10-12 hours. The strained infusion can be stored for 2-3 days in a cool, dark place.
For first adoption medicinal bath It is advisable to use half the dose and shorten the procedure to 5 minutes to check the child’s reaction.
Pine baths with the addition of sea salt have undoubted benefits for infants. Such baths are often prescribed to children with suspected neurological and skin diseases.
Sea salt composition:
Taking baths with sea salt successfully replaces swimming in the sea and common salt rooms (halotherapy). And the addition of pine extracts only enhances the benefits of salt baths.
Pine-salt baths perfectly strengthen the immune system, relieve allergic skin rashes, improve blood circulation and strengthen the nervous system of infants.
To prepare a pine-salt bath for an infant, you need to take 2 tablespoons of sea salt and pine concentrate. The extract can be successfully replaced essential oils coniferous trees. 6-8 drops of oil per baby bath are enough. You can also find sea salt soaked in pine concentrate on sale.
Often salt and pine baths alternate with each other every other day. Thus, the course of treatment becomes longer, but with greater effect.
Today the topic of our article: Coniferous salt baths for children and if you, dear visitors of my site, are young parents, then this information will be useful to you.
However, before you give your child medicinal baths, you need to consult with your doctor who is seeing your child.
Only a doctor can prescribe this or that procedure; this condition also applies to pine salt baths for children. What are the benefits of pine salt baths for children?
The fact is that many children are susceptible to various diseases and stress, just like their adult parents. So such healing procedures are useful for both adults and children. With many different health problems, pine salt baths can help.
When taking a bath, the body absorbs through the skin everything that is in it. This includes many useful microelements and salts from dissolved sea salt (with a general strengthening effect), and pine needle extracts with a relaxing and calming effect.
Despite the active distribution of children's cosmetics, many parents today continue to use a herbal decoction or plant extract to bathe their babies. Special attention It is worth paying attention to pine baths for children. Some unfairly classify them as strong allergens, thinking that such flavored additives can provoke a negative reaction in infants. In practice, if you do everything correctly, there will be only obvious benefits from regular manipulations. Several types of physiotherapeutic manipulations have been developed specifically for children, which differ high efficiency and absolute safety.
Pine baths have a number of therapeutic properties and are often prescribed by pediatricians for children with a weakened immune system or a predisposition to certain diseases. In addition, they can be done for strong and healthy babies as a preventive measure. Such medicinal baths perform several functions at once:
Advice: You should not resort to pine baths as a means to normalize daytime sleep. The plant extract can give too strong an effect and lead to a disruption in the baby’s biorhythms. His daytime sleep will be so deep that he will stop sleeping at night.
Baths for which it is used pine extract, can be carried out from the moment the child turns six months old. But today, more and more often, doctors recommend using this procedure for one-year-old babies. It is strictly forbidden to experiment with pine needles during the neonatal period (first month). Children's skin at this age is still very sensitive, bathing can do more harm than good. Experts believe that pine needles are safer for artificial growers in terms of allergies, but in both cases it is first recommended to consult a doctor and conduct a small test to determine the tolerability of the composition.
To prepare a bath, you can use one of the following products:
For example, you can make a pine bath from needles in one of the following ways:
Each remedy has therapeutic properties and specific benefits. If the extract is easier than others to use, then the infusion prepared by yourself guarantees absolute safety of bathing.
There are several features of useful manipulations, the observance of which will allow you to expect maximum effect with minimal risks for the child:
If a child has any chronic or acute conditions, developmental or growth characteristics, then you should first consult with a pediatrician about the use of pine baths.
A bath with the addition of pine needles has not only a pleasant aroma, but also a healing effect. Its effect is associated with essential oils released from the pine substrate during procedures. In addition, such a bath contains a lot of vitamins, mineral salts, microelements, as well as tannins.
A bath with pine needles, if prepared correctly, is beneficial for the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, as well as the nervous system.
This bath has many effects:
If you make a bath based on pine concentrate, then due to great content It contains pine oil, such a bath will have a particularly pronounced effect on the nervous system and lungs.
Among the indications for baths with the addition of pine needles, diseases of the nervous system come first. These baths are prescribed for neurasthenia, neurosis, insomnia, sciatica, fatigue, VSD, depression, irritability, asthenia.
In addition, a pine bath will be beneficial for overweight, rheumatism, inflammation of the joints, asthma, gout, diseases of the respiratory system, inflammation of the bladder or kidneys, skin damage, ulcers, frostbite, chronic gynecological diseases, eczema, initial stage hypertension. It will help relieve spasms in the gastrointestinal tract, and is also recommended for children to prevent malnutrition and rickets. A course of pine baths is useful for people who have recently had serious illness and go through the rehabilitation phase.
Contraindications to this type of bath are cancer and atherosclerosis. Even if you do not have these contraindications, you should consult your doctor before taking baths with the addition of pine needles.
To prepare this version of a therapeutic bath, you can use different types raw materials. This can be pine balsam, concentrate or extract, special briquettes or tablets. Coniferous mixtures, which are crushed branches, cones and needles, are also used for baths.
If you are making a pine bath with tablets or briquettes, First, collect about two hundred liters of water with a temperature of 35 to 37 degrees Celsius. Next, add two tablets containing pine needle extract or pine briquette (60-80 grams) to the water. After mixing the water well, you can begin the procedure. If you have chosen a liquid balm as the basis for the procedure, then add it to the water in an amount of approximately 100 ml.
Preparing a bath based on a natural collection requires a little more effort, but is more natural, and therefore has a better effect. To prepare the concentrate, pour approximately 1 kg of pine needles with 7-8 liters of water, then boil for thirty minutes and leave to infuse for 10 hours. You can prepare this decoction in the morning and take a bath with it in the evening. To do this, the pine needles are filtered out, and the resulting infusion is poured into a bathtub filled with water.
Immerse yourself in the bath so that the area of your chest and heart remains uncovered.
Before taking a bath, cleanse your body by taking a shower. The procedure itself should last up to 15 minutes, but you should always take into account your well-being. The water temperature should not be higher than +37 degrees. At the end of such a bath, it is advisable to take a cool shower and go to bed, so it is usually recommended to perform water procedures with pine needles at night.
If you conduct pine baths as a course, it often includes 10-15 sessions, performed every other day or daily. This course can be repeated once every 6 months. As a preventative measure, a bath with the addition of pine needles can be taken once a week.
After eating, 1-2 hours should pass before the procedure.
For this type of bath, natural pine needles are used, to which sea salt is added. These baths are different great benefit, because they have two components that have a beneficial effect on the body. Salt baths with pine needles are recommended for diseases of the skin, joints and nervous system. For adults, they can help with nervous overload, and in childhood– good prevention of rickets. They are also recommended for overweight.
To prepare such a bath you need sea salt (300-500 grams) and natural pine needles(about 500-700 grams) or pine balsam (about 100 ml). This number of components is designed for two hundred liters of water.
The bath temperature is set to +37 degrees. Take it before bed (40-60 minutes before) so that at the end of the bath you can quickly rinse, dry your body and go to bed.
The duration of the procedure is 10-15 minutes. For children, the concentration of substances, the temperature of the water, and the time of administration are reduced.
A bath with pine needles can also be given to children, but it should only be prescribed by a specialist. With this type of bath you can prevent or help treat certain diseases. A pine bath will have a beneficial effect on the functioning of the child’s nervous system, reduce increased excitability, eliminate insomnia, have a calming effect, and strengthen the baby’s health. It is also useful for the respiratory and circulatory systems.
Children receive pine baths according to the following rules:
