5 Tips to Keep Your Kids Safe from Covid-19 during Christmas

5 Tips to Keep Your Kids Safe from Covid-19 during Christmas Will our kids make it through this pandemic? A question that has currently haunted many parents worldwide as they struggle to adapt to the new normal. These uncertain times call for uncertain measures to keep your kids safe from covid-19. Additionally, events keep unfolding daily, with a drastic increase in the number of infections soaring high. Therefore, being knowledgeable and informed about the disease goes a long way to prevent the spread as a parent. 📷 In as much as these are challenging times, people should be hopeful for a better tomorrow. There are different ways and preventive guidelines that, if and when followed, go a long way in keeping kids safe.

1. Teach Proper Hand Washing Skills Medical practitioners and researchers worldwide have recommended hand washing as the effective primary prevention of covid-19. Washing hands correctly is hygienic and important to keep your kids safe from Covid-19. The actions of scrubbing your hands help dislodge viral particles that carry the disease that transmits from one person to the other. 📷 As a parent teach your children how to wash hands with soap and water. Hand washing includes particular technicalities to become effective. These are; the frequency of handwashing, time taken to wash hands, and how to wash your hands. In the absence of soap and water, use hand sanitizers. Hand sanitizers are also deemed safe in killing germs and disinfection. However, in this case, you are advised to supervise your kid. 2. Wearing Masks As the battle for coronavirus pandemic continues, it has now become a mandate to wear masks. Many states and countries have put such policies to help mitigate the spread of covid-19. Wearing masks, therefore, protect adults and help keep your kids safe from transmitting the virus. 📷 Ensure your kids and the entire households wear a mask while in public. Also, ensure that kids wear their clean masks, correctly, and safely. Why should they provide this? Because masks suppress transmission of the virus. The virus spreads through droplets from either sneezing or coughing. 3. Practicing Proper Hygiene The emergence of covid-19 has dictated and made emphasis on our hygiene, particularly the body. The human body can provide places for disease-causing germs to multiply and grow. If you practice proper personal hygiene and habits, germs and parasites will not survive. Since covid-19 is a virus, practicing proper hygiene will help keep your kids safe. Wash your kid’s hands after playing, bathing, and giving a change of clothes. They should also clean the fruits before eating. 📷 As you celebrate during this festive season, prioritize on hygiene. Emphasize on teaching your kids how to cough and sneeze—covering the nose and mouth when sneezing or coughing helps stop the virus’s spread. Failure to do this, droplets containing germs from the nose and mouth could spread the virus. 4. Avoid Overcrowding Overcrowding is the presence of too many people in a particular place or area. Due to covid-19 spread, overcrowding has become banned to maintain social distance. Germs and viruses spread quickly in a crowded place because people are much close to one another. The covid-19 virus spread mostly through water droplets from an infected person. If an infected person sneezes or coughs in a crowded room or area, droplets will spread widely. When such an incident happens, the containment of the virus will be rigid. 📷 During the festive season, a lot of gatherings go around in the spirit of celebration. Therefore, keep your children away from crowded places at all costs. To keep kids safe, they should observe at least the one-meter rule from anyone. 5. Regular Check-Ups To improve your health and that of kids, you need regular check-ups. Essential screening and testing reduce the risk of acquiring diseases. As a keen parent, regular check-ups could help keep kids safe. Check-ups have a high benefit to the human body. Life-threatening health conditions and diseases such as covid-19 are detected early. It also improves health and lifespan. Above all, it increases the chances of treatment and cure. 📷 Going for these check-ups with your kids will have a higher prevention rate. Why does the check-up matter? Because if anyone in the household tested positive, you would have to take proper action to prevent the spread.

Every parent’s first instinct is to protect their child from any harm. The advent of the covid-19 virus pandemic has brought about challenges. It’s not a walk in the park for parents to keep kids safe and protect them from the unknown. Thus, you should make every effort, including those listed above, to avoid the virus. A record number of infections from the virus will decrease, and many lives saved. In a nut shell, love, guidance, responsibility, and protection will help keep kids safe during this Christmas season.