Summer health care tips for teenagers

Teenagers go through several changes in their body in various stages of life while they get into the adult status. After wearing shoes and garments for long you will suddenly come to a conclusion that the old shoes does not fit your feet size. This means that you have grown up from teenager to an adult. During summer season, even the teenagers need to take extra care of their health.
There are some simple and effective health care tips for the teenagers to follow.  Health habits along with eating and consuming healthy diet must be considered while considering some of the effective healthcare tips for the teenagers.
List of summer healthcare tips for teenagers
Caution while swimming
Due to heat of summer, teenagers practice swimming for a long time. But, due to contamination of water with germs, teens can get affected with recreational water illness. Some of this illness can give rise to diarrheas, pink eye etc. It is important to choose such a water body which is clean and far away from such contamination during the summer season.
Simple health care tips in swimming pool

• Do not share your bath towels with others  in pool areas
• Wear the life guard when you are a novice
• If you are swimming in ocean you must get an expert beside you for escaping the rip current in ocean

Avoid harmful rays of sun
Sunrays are very harmful during the summer season. It will be very important for you to avoid the harmful rays during summer. There are several sun block procedures such as wearing a sunglass, applying sunscreen lotion over the exposed skin areas etc. It is important for teens to reapply the lotion in every few hours so that they do not suffer from the problem of sunburn.  You will find variety of sunscreen lotion in the market. It will be better for you to get such sunscreens which block the UVB and UVA rays attacking your skin.
Protection from mosquito bites
Mosquitoes are seen to attack people during the summer season. Lots of people are bitten by mosquitoes during the summer season. Since, the teens spends most of their time outside their home, it will be quite usual if they gets bug bites or mosquito bite. You must use the mosquito or insect repellent in order to get away from the mosquito bite.
Stay hydrated
Since teens are engaged in variety of sports and physical activities during the summer season such as biking, riding bicycle, etc they must drink plenty of water in order to stay hydrated. Dehydration will be very harmful for them. You should avoid the drinks which can make you dehydrated. You should avoid eating excess amount of caffeine during the hot summer season.
Be in shape
Teens have the fascination of staying in shape always. Summer is the best season when they can easily stay in shape as well as hydrated. By practicing outdoor sports during the summer season, teens can be in shape with variety of outdoor activities.