Increase your baby's resistance in the middle of the epidemic season

Resistance of the body is the ability to defend and fight against pathogens that enter the body. For young children, the immune system is still incomplete and the resistance is still poor, so children often suffer from respiratory or digestive diseases,... This is also one of the manifestations of the immune system. weak fluids and inadequate nutrition.
When the baby is in the womb, there is a certain resistance provided by the mother to help against adverse agents. When a child is born, the child's resistance has not yet fully developed, but must be exposed to a new living environment, so it is very easy to get sick. This will lead to rickets and malnutrition affecting the overall development of children. Therefore, increasing children's resistance is an essential job to create favorable conditions for children to develop in the best way and prevent diseases, especially in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic.

Strengthening resistance as well as increasing the immune system for children during the epidemic season is very necessary. One of the ways to help increase resistance during the pandemic is:
Breastfeed your baby as much as possible. Because breast milk is not only a rich source of nutrients but also contains a lot of antibodies that help the baby to prevent many diseases. Several studies have shown that maternal health can prevent allergies and diseases, protect babies from harmful viruses and bacteria, and support the undeveloped immune systems of babies. The nutrients found in breast milk can effectively protect against infections and boost the baby's immune system. For older children, it is necessary for them to drink enough water, eat enough to ensure 4 groups of substances. At the same time, increase zinc-rich foods such as crab, shrimp, animal liver, grains, beef and add vegetables and fruits that contain a lot of vitamins E, C. Fruits such as oranges, grapefruit, lemon, ... are rich sources of vitamin C, drinking more juices will help children strengthen their resistance during the epidemic season. Give children a healthy lifestyle, make sure they sleep on time, get enough sleep and exercise their body more often. Because, sleep is of great importance in improving and strengthening children's resistance. The lack of sleep will make the baby more susceptible to diseases by reducing the natural immune cells and making the child uncomfortable, mentally not alert. Parents need to regularly let their children exercise with activities such as swimming, cycling, soccer,... In addition, in the current situation of acute respiratory infections caused by corona virus (COVID-19) is evolving. It's very complicated, parents need to keep the living environment clean and well ventilated, at the same time wear masks, limit bringing children to crowded places and wash hands often,... Children need to add more necessary micronutrients: Zinc, selenium, chromium, Vitamins B1 and B6, Ginger, acerola fruit extract (vitamin C),... to improve taste, eat well, reach the correct height and weight and exceed the standard, the immune system is good, strengthen the resistance to be less sick and less likely to have digestive problems In short, the body's resistance is the ability to defend and fight off pathogens when entering body. For children, the resistance is still weak because the immune system of the child is not yet perfected. Therefore, children often suffer from respiratory or digestive diseases, especially during the epidemic season if the immune system is weak. Therefore, increasing resistance during the epidemic season is very important and necessary to prevent diseases for children.
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