Is it good for children to take probiotics? What should I pay attention to?

Probiotics have a dual effect on regulating diarrhea and constipation in the baby's stomach and intestines. Probiotics mainly maintain intestinal health, promote digestion and absorption of nutrients, and also prevent and treat allergic diseases. Probiotics are good for health, so children can eat some probiotics. Probiotics can enhance children's resistance and improve their health. So what are the benefits of taking probiotics for children? How should children supplement probiotics?

1. Help digestion and absorption of nutrients. Many probiotic strains can produce digestive enzymes in the gastrointestinal tract. These enzymes can help the human body better digest the food it eats and absorb the nutrients in the food. Probiotics can also competitively inhibit harmful microorganisms from absorbing nutrients and entering the blood circulation system. Lactobacillus acidophilus is a representative strain in this regard, which can secrete lactase to digest lactose and thus alleviate lactose intolerance.

2. Produce important nutrients

Probiotics can produce vitamins including pantothenic acid, niacin, B1, B2, B6 and vitamin K. They can also produce short-chain fatty acids, antioxidants, amino acids, etc., which play an important role in bone growth and heart health.

3. Resist bacterial and viral infections and enhance immunity. Probiotics can eliminate the damage caused by harmful bacteria to the body through three steps.

1. Inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria. Probiotics curb the growth of harmful bacteria by producing chemicals that kill them and by competing with them for space and resources.

2. Inhibit harmful bacteria from producing toxins.

3. Remove toxins produced by harmful bacteria.

4. Prevent and treat certain diseases such as intestinal syndrome, respiratory tract infection, reproductive system infection, allergies, bad breath, gastric ulcer, etc.

Many health problems of the human body are caused by the imbalance of the flora in the body. The determining factor is the balance of the microecology. The purpose of relief and treatment can be achieved by restoring the ecological balance of the flora in the body. For example, comprehensive symptoms such as diarrhea, constipation, and vaginal infections have been proven through years of research and practice at home and abroad that the use of specific clinically proven probiotics can be effectively treated.

Because the baby's immune system is not yet fully developed, the maternal antibodies gradually disappear after birth, and the baby is in a susceptible period for the first six years after birth. During this period, many babies will have imperfect gastrointestinal and immune functions, weak body resistance, digestive dysfunction, intestinal malabsorption, and infectious diseases. These minor conditions not only hinder the baby's physical growth and development, but also have varying degrees of impact on the baby's intellectual cognitive development, emotional and social ability development. Mothers are bound to worry about the harm to their babies caused by therapeutic chemical drugs.

Although probiotics are good for children's physical health, they should not be eaten too much. Eating too much can be harmful to the intestines and affect children's intestinal health. In fact, not all children need to take probiotics, so parents should give their children appropriate amounts of probiotics according to their children's conditions and make some preparations for their children's healthy growth.