Dr. Morozov advises developing a habit: if a person did it from a young age to old age, he would avoid many problems.

The doctor says that children’s health should be checked preventively every year.

“While children are young, parents often take us to check on them when they grow up, really very often the preventive check, which is a wonderful and very good thing, dismissed as unnecessary and bureaucratic paperwork,” says Morozov.

The doctor says that preventive tests could become a beautiful tradition: every year, in summer, come and talk to your family doctor about health.

“Just like you started in kindergarten, you go into old age, you get preventive tests every year,” says Morozov.

The doctor jokingly compared the health check with a technical inspection of the car. It is not uncommon for people to take care of their car more than their own or even children’s health.

“Do we want to raise children with health problems, such as driving a bad car? I don’t think so, “says the family doctor.

V. Morozov emphasizes that as a child grows, his condition may change even every six months, but there are other nuances.

“There may be very advanced bronchial asthma or a fairly significant systolic heart murmur, but the child will not say anything about it, he will simply move more slowly.” It is a great mistake to take your hand to the exam and simply take that brochure from the doctor and deliver it to the educational institution, ”emphasizes the doctor.

However, sometimes when you come to a medical institution, although parents want to know more about the child’s health, they do not always succeed.

“If someone worries doctors or patients, the research is done all the time. I recommend doing more research than is required with health insurance funds, ”says V. Morozov.

The doctor says that teens need further investigation. In addition to a general blood and urine test and, if indicated, a cardiogram, girls are advised to have an iron stores test; For girls and boys, a study of thyroid function.

“The child is growing, so it is necessary to notice posture disorders, signs of flat feet, a certain asymmetry, talk about nutritional skills, about what is still taboo in our country: sexual life and behavior, talk about vaccines. ” All this constitutes a preventive examination of a child ”, says V. Morozov.

Is now a good time to do a preventive health checkup on a child?

If you have decided that you want to do preventive testing, do so. Call your outpatient clinic, find out, and if accepted, go, your doctor will advise you.

“It is now much easier to carry out preventive tests than in August, when everyone will remember and all schools and kindergartens will request the presentation of certificates. This flow forces us to not have very detailed controls,” says the family doctor.

V. Morozov advises choosing your family doctor, whom the child visits from an early age, for preventive examinations. It is this doctor who will see better how the child has changed over time.
“That change when we see a child for the first time is not necessarily noticeable, we must have a complete medical history,” says the doctor.

V. Morozov points out that there should be no special preparation before preventive examinations.

“Just like a child lives every day, it is better for the doctor to see it, and then it can say much more about the child’s condition,” advises the doctor.

V. Morozov advises to carry out a blood test for a child not only when he is ill. It is very important to be tested at least once when the child is healthy. There are cases when the results of a study in a healthy child show that the blood is as bad as when it is sick. So it turns out that a serious blood disease needs to be treated. The sooner this is noticed, the more successful the treatment will be.

How to raise a healthy child? The doctor says that the best example for a child is the parents.

“If we want to raise a healthy, active and healthy child, we must do the same. If we want the child to sit at the computer as little as possible and protect his eyes and posture, then we should not sit at the computer and we must protect our eyes and our posture ”, advises Dr. V. Morozov.

For the full conversation with the doctor, see the entry in the program “Hello! With Dr. V. Morozov”.