Immune defenses in children: 6 effective ways to strengthen them!
Strengthening babies' immune defenses is a great way to try and prevent them from spending the cold months at the mercy of the flu, sore throat, cough, fever and cold.
To protect your child from seasonal ailments and significantly reduce their risk (which is getting higher and higher between school and kindergarten), it is necessary to strengthen their immune defenses. How to do it? Here are 6 really effective ways, all to be put into practice.
Before proceeding with the reading of the article, watch this video from which you can get some useful tips to take care and feel good about yourself!
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1. Strengthen your baby's immune defenses by taking care of his nutrition
A healthy diet is essential for strengthening your child's immune defenses.
Educate your child to consume more servings of fruit and vegetables per day, as well as legumes, whole grains and nuts, a real panacea! Keep him away from fizzy drinks, packaged sweets and industrial fruit juices as much as possible, trying to make him freshly squeezed juices and homemade cakes. In its diet it abounds with sources of vitamin C, very useful in strengthening the immune system (you can find it in abundant quantities in citrus fruits, kiwis, strawberries, but also spinach and broccoli). Here is an album of foods that you must not miss:
2. Start using an immunostimulant right away to support your defenses
To support your baby's immune defenses, it is very useful to start using an immunostimulant as soon as possible. Choose a food supplement designed specifically for children and easy to administer that possibly contains Vitamins C, D, E and even Zinc, all essential to ensure a normal functioning of the immune system.
Your child will be ready to face back to school and the cold season in the best possible way!
3. Get him to sleep well and get enough
The quality and quantity of sleep are also important to prevent your baby from getting sick easily. The lack of sleep, in fact, makes it weaker, exposing it more to germs and bacteria.
A child between 1 and 3 years old must sleep between 12 and 14 hours a day; one between 3 and 5 between 11 and 13; children between 5 and 12 years between 10 and 11 hours. If your child does not get enough sleep, not only will his immune defenses lower, but also his ability to concentrate, making him more restless. So be careful not to go to bed too late and make sure you have him eat dinner at least two hours before he goes to sleep.
4. Get him to sunbathe even in the cold months
Who told you that in the colder months you can't stay outdoors? Of course, you have to use the right precautions, but a little sun can only be good for your baby.
In fact, sunlight helps fix vitamin D, which plays a very important role in preventing seasonal ailments. A walk in the sun on Sunday can only be good for the child, even with a scarf and coat.
5. Educate your child to always wash their hands
And here we are with the number one rule of hygiene: always wash your hands as soon as you return home. This is a really fundamental habit to keep germs and diseases at bay.
Teach your child to wet their hands, distribute the soap on the back, palm, spaces between the fingers, rub properly and rinse, without any rush. Always choose a gentle cleanser for her little hands.
6. Don't overload him with commitments
Today's children, more often than not, have more commitments than an adult! School, homework, sport, English course and so on and so forth. The risk is to overload them and create a certain psychophysical stress, which inevitably weakens the organism and the immune defenses.
Give your child some free time to just play, tell him a story, cook with him, let him relax however he likes. Tensions will disappear, he will get less sick and his performance will also increase in every field!
