Top tips to clear your little one’s brain fog

Have you ever seen your child feeling lost, tired and confused/unable to focus? That fuzzy feeling that they get is called brain fog. It is characterized by confusion, forgetfulness, inability to focus and lack of mental clarity. It’s usually caused by overworking, lack of sleep, stress, and spending too much time on the computer or smartphone.  

How do you know your child has brain fog? 
During brain fog, the cells of an over-taxed brain undergo high levels inflammation, affecting the hormones that determine your or your kid’s mood, energy and focus. Imbalanced levels of hormones disturb the balance of our entire system. You will notice a general apathy in the child towards everything, tendency to sleep irregularly, over-eat, and keep using a smart gadget passively without really participating in anything or learning anything new.  

Helping kids get rid of brain fog 
Starting from diet management to regulating sleep cycle, there are various ways to make your little one’s brain function to its full potential again. Read on to now more.  

Start clearing brain fog by reducing app usage: Is your kid behaving like a computer about to hang – too many open windows – slow processing speed? Step in and limit their app usage. Enforce breaks from smart devices, push them into digital detox if needed by keeping them away from devices for fixed hours.  

Change or manage their diet: A healthy diet including olive oil, fruits and vegetables, nuts and beans, whole grains, fresh dairy and animal protein. Without this, the development of brain and memory functions would be hampered.  

Make them active: Whether it is yoga, aerobics, dance or games, push in an activity into your child’s daily routine based on what they like most. Physical activities also involve activating the brain, and are necessary to maintain healthy bones, muscles and nerves.  

Regularise sleep for kids: Pre-teen kids usually need 8 to 10 hours and teens need 7 to 8 hours of unbroken sleep daily. This means these are continuous night hours. Deep sleep soothes nerves, relaxes muscles, gives our hands and feet the needed rest, clears toxins and automatically refreshes the brain.  

Limit them from multitasking: Adults are better at multitasking than kids or teens. It’s better if they tackle one activity at a time. Fix them a schedule with separate study, play and socialising hours. It can work wonders.