What does the group of children's health 3 mean?

An uninitiated person can easily get confused in medical terms. From a misunderstanding, a panic is born. But it is much more correct not to panic, but to understand the situation. So imagine, for example, a child undergoes a medical examination and sees in the card a strange entry: "group of health 3". Does the child have something wrong? Does he need help? What does this mean? Let's try to figure it out.

The concept of a "group of health"

At birth, the pediatrician examines the baby and performs a comprehensive assessment of his health. Each baby is assigned a certain group. By itself, this term is conditional. It includes a set of many characteristics that describe the general physiological state of health.

Total health groups are five. They are denoted by Roman or Arabic numerals. The Ministry of Health has developed a special "Instruction for a comprehensive assessment of the state of health of minors", which determines the procedure for assigning a health group. Doctors work according to this instruction, examining children and adolescents until they reach 17 years of age. Estimation of the state is done at the moment, that is, at the time of the inspection. At the same time, acute diseases are not taken into account, and past illnesses are only those that have acquired a chronic form.

Who is referred to the 3 group of health

Health group 3 in children means that the child has a chronic disease with the possibility of exacerbations. But it is in remission. Group 3 is characterized by the preservation or compensation of organ functions, but sometimes exacerbations cause temporary disability. This includes children with physical disabilities or the consequences of injuries (operations), the extent of which allows them to study in ordinary schools and engage in manual labor.

The health group 3 in children can mean normal physical development in excess or deficiency of body weight. This includes children and adolescents with a growth below the norm. The nervous system and mental development in the group as a whole are normal, but sometimes these children fall behind a bit.

When parents face the notion of "health group"

If a child has obvious physiological or / and psychological deviations that threaten not only health, but life in general, then parents are consulted about his condition immediately. This applies to children from 4 and 5 health groups. For children from groups 1, 2 and 3 of strong fears, doctors may not experience (children from the 1 group are completely healthy, and out of 2 - have no restrictions for sports and physical work). And since there is no fear, the doctor who noted the health group in the medical chart may forget to tell his parents about it. It happens quite often.

It turns out, in spite of the fact that the group of health 3 at children costs from a birth, many parents of it at all do not know. They pay attention to the group of health of their child, when they undergo medical examination when they are registered in a kindergarten. Most often this happens in 2-3 years. If the child does not attend pre-school institutions, information may be caught by the parents when they are enrolled in school or for obtaining certificates for training in sports sections.

However, if chronic problems are exacerbated frequently, attentive parents simply can not be unaware of them.

Examples of diseases classified as group 3 health

Parents who want to understand what the third group of the child's health means, should understand that this is the so-called risk group. The group includes children with obvious pathologies and abnormalities of physical development. Most often, its representatives have the following chronic diagnoses:

• gastritis;
• asthma;
• Increased nasopharyngeal tonsils (adenoids);
• Lack of hemoglobin in the blood (anemia);
• Kidney disease;
• Chronic bronchitis;
• Speech disorders (stammering);
• Initial, transverse or longitudinal flat feet;
• Allergies and so on.

This is an approximate list of diseases that can cause the child to be referred to group 3.

Can the child's health group change?

The third group of health includes children who will be under compulsory medical supervision. Depending on how their disease proceeds, they will be assigned consultations at various intervals. If children or adolescents undergo the necessary treatment, after which the disease does not manifest itself for a long time, during which the period of dispensary observation of the patient expires, the doctor can transfer the child from group 3 to group 2 of health. This will mean that the doctor came to the conclusion that getting rid of a chronic illness, and at the moment the baby is healthy.

Most often with age, children manage to get rid of allergies, anemia, adenoids and pyelonephritis.

Sport activities

Despite the fact that the health group 3 in children allows them to attend a regular school, physical education and sports have limitations for them. To begin with, consider the issues related to sports:

• For children of the 3rd group it is recommended to limit the use of forceful forms, such as weightlifting, power triathlon (powerlifting) or kettlebell lifting;
• Unwillingness to engage in traumatic sports such as boxing, wrestling, figure skating, gymnastics, alpine skiing and so on;
• It is dangerous to engage in those sports that require a long presence of children in places with high or low humidity, in mountainous or marshy areas.

Wanting to improve their child, parents must necessarily consult with a specialist. And it is also important to observe common sense, choosing a sport is necessary, based not on its popularity or situational fashion, but on the capabilities of its child.

3 group of health in the child. Physical Education in School

Presence of chronic diseases in the child, even in the stage of remission, indicates that a visit to ordinary physical education lessons is contraindicated for him. Such children are defined in the preparatory groups for physical education.

Total physical education in the school is divided into 3 types:

• Basic, for fully healthy children;
• Preparatory, for children with minor problems;
• Special, for children with significant disabilities or complete exemption from employment.

In the preparatory group, children are engaged in a special curriculum. They give down the simplified standards in accordance with the permission of the doctors. The teacher evaluates not so much sport achievements as the desire to engage in theoretical knowledge.

The child's health group 3 (preparatory) allows the performance of a warm-up, easy running, a complex of restorative exercises with gymnastic sticks, a simple obstacle course, ball exercises, outdoor games. In addition, children can make reports, make presentations on sports topics, write abstracts, or perform other tasks assigned to them to get an assessment.

How to behave to parents

If the kid or adolescent is assigned to the 3rd group of health, then it will be useful for parents to receive additional consultations of doctors. The pediatrician can not only give directions, but also recommend the best specialists working in the field of your child's problems. Do not be afraid to lose time, hand over all the proposed tests, specify which deviations the doctor recorded. Come on time for regular check-ups and follow the recommendations. Get maximum information about the potential risks for your child and learn how to avoid them.

We have already determined what the third group of the child's health means. This is not a reason for panic, but a need for a more attentive attitude. Many chronic diseases are curable, which means that your child can get rid of them. But with the wrong approach or ignoring the problem, his condition may get worse, and the child will be transferred from group 3 to group 4 health.