A healthy child makes a healthy home

It is only last year when my neighbors, a young beautiful couple, were planning for a trip to Kohima. They had heard a lot about the famous Hornbill festival of the Naga Tribal population that is celebrated in the month of December. And it was a perfect opportunity for them to take a break from their monotonous lifestyle, learn about the rich cultural heritage of a lesser known population and meet travel enthusiasts from across the world. To visit Kohima they had to make a lot of preparations which included activities like getting inner line permits, booking tickets, applying for leave, shopping etc. Everything was set and the couple along with their 5 year old son Bunty were very excited to embark upon the new journey. But something unexpected happened just two days before the scheduled trip date. Bunty fell ill. It threw the couple in a state of Limbo. Their first priority was, of course, to take care of the health of the child. However they were making plans for long and hence they started looking for possible alternate options. I remember how they explored different contingent arrangements ranging from leaving the child to parent's home to inviting sister to stay at their home and take care of the child. But all that made them feel very uncomfortable and so ultimately they decided to cancel the trip. And that decision was the least they could have done. Bunty is in a very tender age and at that age the parents are expected to get totally engulfed into overall development of the child. Improper care at that age is nothing but playing with the future of the child. It is not unknown that child's cognitive, motor and sensory skills develop at the fastest rate in the age range 0-6. 

The after effects of cancelling the trip was very much visible. On one hand they started taking all such precautions to prevent their child from getting ill and on the other they decided to avoid long trips till the time Bunty gets old enough to take care of himself. While they took the right decision, the question remains: 'whether that could have been avoided somehow'. Was it possible that they had taken enough prevention measures to ensure that Bunty doesn't get ill. And what kind of prevention measures were expected from them: Should they have focused more on improving the immunity of the child or should they have taken better sanitation measures. Of course there cannot be a single tiered approach. It ranges from taking care of the food habits of the child to taking extra steps to build the inner resilience of the child towards infectious microbes. Recently Dabur has come up with a product that provides 3 times immunity and helps fight virus, flu and infections. That's one of the option that they should really explore. To have a look at the product you are also advised to pay a visit to the website https://www.liveveda.com/daburchyawanprash/. It would be inspiring to find if Indian parents start being more aware and take better prevention measures for their children in the future.