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12 Ways to Protect Your Child from Winter Diseases

The increased amount of time spend indoors and the close contact with sick people most commonly affect the children between the ages of 2 and 6. Here are the ways to protect your children from winter diseases:

Wash your child’s hands at least for 15 seconds

Not only for preventing the upper respiratory tract infections, but washing your child’s hands with soap at least for 15 seconds is the best way for preventing all types of infectious diseases.

Besides making it a morning routine; wash your child’s hands after he/she contacts an ill person, after wipes his/her nose, after he/she holds materials that you believe they are infected, after he/she sneezes to his/her hands and after he/she comes home from playing outside. Also, for the momentary contamination, it is good to carry an antiseptic spray with you.