How to strengthen a child's immunity: Rospotrebnadzor experts named important nutritional elements

30.09.2024 20:59

Human immunity depends on habits, including gastronomic ones. Children's immune system is still developing and therefore needs support.

Rospotrebnadzor experts have explained what kind of diet will help strengthen a child’s immune system.

Parents feed their children fruits and vegetables in the summer, but it is important to know that vitamins are not accumulated, but absorbed, experts note.

Therefore, fruits and vegetables should continue to be consumed throughout the year.

Vitamin A

Increases the body's resistance to seasonal diseases. Therefore, the diet should include a salad of raw carrots with sour cream.

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It is also worth including pumpkin with butter, liver pancakes, and eggs.

B vitamins

The general metabolism and the process of hematopoiesis depend on them.

It is essential to include in your diet “dairy and meat products, cereals, leafy and leguminous vegetables, seafood.”

It is important that the diet consists of different sources of vitamins of this group.

Vitamin C

Its main suppliers are not only fresh fruits, but also vegetables, berries and greens.

It is advisable to consume them with minimal heat treatment. Portions should be small but regular.

It is equally important to include rosehip infusion, dried apricots, raisins or bananas in the child’s diet.

To maintain intestinal microflora, children should be given fermented milk products – yogurt or kefir – more often.

It is important to follow a diet.

Author: Igor Zur Internet resource editor

Content
  1. Vitamin A
  2. B vitamins
  3. Vitamin C