The key to helping children increase resistance and get sick less often for the new school year

Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Thi Nhung, Head of the Department of School and Professional Nutrition, National Institute of Nutrition, said that health has a significant impact on children's learning outcomes. Children with malnutrition or excess nutrition are more likely to get sick than normal children. Children with micronutrient deficiencies or overweight or obesity have poor resistance, increasing the risk of infectious diseases such as respiratory infections and diarrhea. When children are sick, their absorption and metabolism of nutrients are even worse, their immune system is further weakened by infections and micronutrient deficiencies, leading to a longer recovery time. This creates a vicious cycle that negatively affects health and learning outcomes.

"The new school year is also the time of changing seasons with unpredictable changes in weather. This is the time of many epidemics for children, children are more susceptible to illness than other times of the year. If the child's body does not have good resistance, the risk of infection and illness will be higher. Parents should proactively find appropriate solutions to help children improve their health, nutritional status, immune system, and strengthen their resistance," Dr. Nhung recommended.

To have good resistance, a healthy body, good height growth, in addition to daily exercise, children need a scientific, healthy diet "Eat right and eat enough" according to the reasonable nutrition pyramid of the Institute of Nutrition for all ages. In addition to providing enough energy and protein, the diet also provides enough vitamins and minerals involved in the immune system such as vitamins A, D, K, E, iron, zinc, selenium, flavonoids and probiotic bacteria.

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A healthy gut is the key to a healthy immune system. A healthy gut helps to better absorb and metabolize nutrients, keeping the body healthy and increasing resistance. A diet with more protein than recommended, less vegetables and fruits, eating a lot of fast food, unhealthy foods such as fried foods with too much oil, soft drinks, candy, fast food, etc. also affects the balance of intestinal bacteria.

DA healthy gut has 85% good bacteria and 15% bad bacteria.However, this ratio is difficult to balance due to many eating habits, lifestyle, environment, and probiotics only exist for a short time. When children are sick, have a fever, or use antibiotics, the intestinal bacteria system will also be unbalanced.

A balanced and reasonable diet will make the intestinal bacteria system more balanced. In addition, it is necessary to supplement probiotics for children daily through fermented foods. Compared to fermented soybeans, kimchi, and pickles, yogurt is the most suitable food for children. "Parents can supplement probiotics for their children daily by using yogurt, live yogurt daily according to the recommendations for milk and dairy products for Vietnamese people of the National Institute of Nutrition," Dr. Nhung suggested.

A healthy gut has 85% good bacteria and 15% bad bacteria..

In addition, parents also need to supplement vegetables and fruits to ensure enough recommended fiber (food to nourish probiotics) in their children's meals. However, not all probiotics are the same and equally effective, many probiotics after being introduced into the body will be destroyed by stomach acid. Therefore, mothers should choose foods that provide reputable, superior probiotic strains with high vitality in harsh pH environments.

Not only supporting digestion, probiotics also help strengthen the immune system for children.she, thereby preventing many diseases, including flu and other respiratory diseases.. A study by the University of Reading (UK) showed that people who drank probiotic products for 4 weeks had a higher number of immune cells than those who did not drink probiotics. A study by the National Institute of Nutrition in 2013 also showed that a group of children (aged 24 - 47 months) who, after 3 months of using live yogurt (Probi) containing probiotics L.Casei 431TM, tended to improve the concentration of IgA antibodies in the serum. Specifically, the IgA immune index tended to increase by more than 30% compared to the group that did not use it (increased by 19.97 mg/dL compared to 14.98 mg/dL).

In 2011, the European Live Yeast Group - Chr. Hansen, the father of L.Casei 431TM, studied the effect of this probiotic in preventing flu. The results of the study with 1,100 Danish and German people showed that daily supplementation of probiotic L.Casei 431 helped shorten the duration of flu. Accordingly, the number of days of illness decreased from 8.1 days (for the placebo group) to 4.8 days (the group supplemented with probiotic L.Casei 431); the use of antibiotics decreased from 38 times to 22 times; and health care measures decreased by 22% compared to the placebo group of 28%.

Benefits of using strain CHR. HANSEN L.CASEI 431TM.

Probi drinking yogurtContains about 13 billion probiotics CHR.Hansen L.Casei 431™ and modern fermentation technology from Europe to help support intestinal immunity, enhance resistance, and help increase IgA immunity index by more than 30% (*). The product is recommended by the Vietnam Medical Association

(*): The index of the group using Probi live yeast yogurt drink tended to increase more than the group not using it, according tonclinical researchof the Institute of Nutritionon the effectiveness of Probi live culture yogurt drink on children's nutritional, digestive and immune status.