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Immune system in children

Uploaded on: 15 April 2023

What is the immune system?

It is the ability to fight against viruses. It can be bacteria, fungus, parasite or any other harmful substance.

  • If the baby’s immunity is strong, it not only protects us from colds and coughs, but also protects us from many diseases including hepatitis, lung infection, kidney infection.
  • There are many pathogens around us. We don’t even know and those harmful elements enter our body with our food, drinking water and breathing. But even after this, not every baby gets sick. Because the immune system is strong. His body’s immune system fights against these external infections.
  • How is your immune system is known from the blood test. Also our body starts giving us many kinds of signals. So, we can easily understand how our immune system is.
  • The immune system of children is decreasing day by day. Twenty-thirty years ago, immunity was very good.
  • Reasons for low immunity, City kids eat outside food like pizza, burgers, chips, bakery items at least hundred days a year. No nutrients are found in these foods.
  • Pollution also affects the health of children. Respiratory disorders such as asthma, asthma increases. 13 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are in India.
  • Children’s study stress is also increasing. We cannot change it but we can avoid it. If the immune system is low…studies are affected Height does not grow The food eaten is not digested, that means the body does not absorb the nutrients in the food eaten. That means everything in the baby is due to the immune system.

Your children do not want nutritious food, some solutions for this:

1 ) Take children with you when shopping for fruits and vegetables. So that they themselves can choose the fruits and vegetables of their choice. And will also eat with interest. There will be no coercion on them.

2) Teach children such cooking methods that gas will not be used. Like making sandwiches, juices, salads.

3) Plant different vegetables like tomatoes, okra spinach, fenugreek, coriander, grafted fruit trees in pots by making space in the house so that they can see the growth of the plant from ‘seed’ to fruit and their fruits and vegetables. Desire to eat will develop.

How much sugar can be given to children?

  • After six months, the baby should be kept away from white poisons such as sugar and salt. Because the baby’s kidneys are not fully mature at birth. Therefore, these foods should not be given to them.
  • For a three-four-year-old baby, fifteen grams of sugar and five grams of salt can be given daily, but sweet foods such as chocolate, chips, etc. should not be given. Sweet foods cause tooth decay and tooth decay. When buying any packet, look at the nutrition facts label.