Badger fat is obtained from the subcutaneous fat layer of the wild animal badger. Animal this refers to hibernating, which before hibernation accumulate a large supply of nutrients. Therefore, badger oil contains many vitamins, for example vitamin A, D and B vitamins, as well as essential essential polyunsaturated acids. This is the basis for the therapeutic effect. When using badger fat, including in children, the body absorbs a significant amount of nutrients contained in it.
The use of badger fat in children
The treatment of badgered fat children refers to the field of traditional medicine. In official evidence-based medicine, this method of treatment is questionable, since no significant mass studies of this drug have been conducted.
Badger fat for children is used mainly for acute respiratory infections. They rub their back or chest to the child. Such rubbing gives a warming effect, as a result of which more blood enters the affected area, metabolic processes are activated. Many parents confirm that rubbing badger fat is good for children when coughing.
Effective also is the use of badger fat in children with weakened immunity, often sick. In this case, use it inside long enough, up to a month.
Badger fat is available in capsules and in liquid form. Since the fat itself has a specific taste, it is better for children to give it in capsules, because many babies refuse to drink tasteless medicines.
How much and how to take or drink badger fat for children depends on the age of the child. Usually appoint 0.5 to 1 teaspoon three times a day. But, in any case, the reception of such funds should start with a small amount to track the child's reaction and check the portability.
Parents who are going to use badger fat, you need to know that taking it to children under one year is contraindicated, and children under 12 years with caution, better on the advice of a doctor. The organism of a small child can not cope with the assimilation of this drug, as a result of which it is possible and the emergence of allergies, and problems with digestion.
How to rub the child with badger fat?
In children, badger fat is usually used to treat a cough, especially prolonged. Consider how to rub the child with badger fat. Here are the basic rules.
- Rubbing should not be carried out in the acute stage of the disease, as warming procedures can increase the already high temperature. In addition, at the beginning of the disease, rubbing will only enhance the inflammatory process. For example, a child has bronchitis, that is, inflammation in the bronchi. We will rub his back with badger fat, more blood will come to the bronchi, the vessels will expand even more and, as a result, the inflammation will increase.
- You can only rub a small area of the skin, so as not to disturb the skin's breathing.
- Before the procedure it is better to try to put badger fat on a small area of the skin, wait a bit and make sure that there is no allergy.
- Warming procedures, which include badger oil fattening, it is advisable to carry out at the stage of recovery, when there is already no active inflammatory process and high temperature. In this case, the improvement of blood supply in the diseased organ will only benefit.
Badger fat is not a medicine, it is released in the form of a dietary supplement. Such supplements are primarily intended for healthy children and adults as a means of preventing diseases and for recovering from illness. And when the child is really sick, it is worth considering badger fat as an addition to the basic treatment that the doctor prescribed.