Strong resistance - the key to help mothers 'not worry' about minor illnesses in children
(Baonghean.vn) - Healthy children, fully developed physically and mentally to explore and learn continuously every day is the dream of every parent. Therefore, parents need to pay attention to nutrition and exercise to help children increase their resistance, fight minor illnesses, play and study with the best spirit. Especially, in the current Covid epidemic situation, children have to return to school after a long time, so increasing children's resistance becomes more urgent than ever.
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| Strong resistance is the key to helping mothers "not worry" about minor illnesses in children, so that children can continuously learn every day. |
Why do children get sick often and are susceptible to disease?
Weak resistance
Children in the early years have an incomplete immune system, weak resistance, so they are at high risk of minor illnesses. Children with weak resistance have less ability to fight off external pathogens, so they are more susceptible to illness. Between the ages of 2 and 5, children often have minor illnesses such as respiratory illnesses such as coughs, fever, runny nose, sore throat, etc.
Unscientific and unreasonable diet
In the first years of life, providing adequate nutrition is extremely important. Participating in the immune system are many vitamins and minerals, antioxidants such as Flavonoids, Omega 3 and Probiotics. If the diet is not diverse, scientific and reasonable, parents only feed their children what they like such as fried foods, stir-fried foods, soft drinks... will lead to overweight, obesity but still lack of micronutrients, reduce resistance, children are susceptible to minor illnesses, Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Thi Nhung noted.
Restrict children's movement
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| Regular exercise and exposure to the outside environment increases the body's natural adaptability and defenses, helping children reduce the risk of minor illnesses. |
Mothers often make the mistake of overprotecting their children, not allowing them to move or come into contact with the outside environment. This will cause children to gradually lose their body's natural resistance, adaptability and defenses and often get sick. Especially during the current epidemic, children have to stay indoors a lot, have little movement and are not exposed to sunlight, causing them to be overweight, obese and lacking vitamin D for the development of their bones and immune system.
Effectively increase children's resistance, reduce the risk of minor illnesses
According to Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Thi Nhung - Head of the Department of School and Professional Nutrition, National Institute of Nutrition, a complete, balanced, and diverse diet will provide children with all the nutrients and vitamins necessary for physical and intellectual development, while also helping to increase resistance and protect children from the risk of minor illnesses. Children's meals need to ensure adequate and balanced intake of 4 groups of substances including fat, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. Green vegetables and fruits should be increased in each meal, avoiding foods that are too greasy, too salty or too sweet, which are not good for health. In addition, supplementingProbioticsThrough fermented foods, typically yogurt or yogurt drinks, it helps increase resistance and reduce the risk of minor illnesses.
According to research by the Pediatric Association, supplementing Probiotics twice daily can reduce the risk of fever, cough, and runny nose in children aged 8-13. In addition, Probiotics have also been proven to effectively reduce the incidence of allergic rhinitis or seasonal allergy symptoms in children.
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| Supplementing foods containing probiotics helps increase resistance and reduce the risk of minor illnesses in children. |
