What are the functions of vitamin D for children?

Nowadays, everyone knows that vitamin D can improve children's immunity and disease resistance. Today's parents all hope that their children can grow up healthily, so parents should pay great attention to children's vitamin D. So, what are the functions of vitamin D for children?

Vitamin D not only helps the development of human bones and prevents rickets, but is also related to the health of 36 organs and tissues in the human body, including the brain, lungs, large intestine, small intestine, stomach, kidneys, prostate, retina, etc.

Specifically speaking, vitamin D contributes to babies in at least three aspects: it promotes brain development, enhances the reaction sensitivity of nerve cells, and improves IQ.

The second is to regulate the immune system and reduce the incidence of immune-related diseases, such as asthma, infantile diabetes (80% lower than children of the same age with low vitamin D in the body), rheumatoid arthritis, etc.

The third is to stimulate the proliferation of monocytes in the bone marrow and activate them into macrophages, thereby enhancing the ability to resist infectious diseases (such as colds, influenza, bronchitis, tuberculosis) and cancers (colon cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer).

In terms of sources, breast milk and some everyday foods contain a certain amount of vitamin D. Unfortunately, breast milk reserves are limited and in most cases cannot meet the baby's physiological needs.

Since vitamin D is only found in milk, fish, animal liver and kidneys, and yellow-green vegetables, many babies are not very enthusiastic about these foods and therefore their intake is generally insufficient.

Even developed countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, which have always paid attention to nutrition, are no exception. About 55% of children in the former have low vitamin D levels; in the latter, more than 70% of girls have insufficient vitamin D in their bodies.

Obviously, it is imperative to open up another "source of supply" for the baby. Sunbathing and cod liver oil have naturally become the two "golden supply lines" of vitamin D for babies.

What are the benefits of vitamin D for babies

Supplementary methods

Sunbathing

Why is vitamin D also called the "sunshine vitamin"? It turns out that this has something to do with its "background". It turns out that the baby's skin contains a large amount of "primordial vitamin D" 7-deoxycholesterol, which can be converted into vitamin D as long as it is exposed to ultraviolet rays in sunlight.

Research data shows that sunlight can be called a "production expert". Just 20 to 30 minutes of sunlight can increase 0.25 mg of vitamin D in the blood. This is the main way for the human body to obtain vitamin D, accounting for more than 90% of the body's needs.

What is even more valuable is that vitamin D synthesized by sunlight is significantly superior to food and drug-based vitamin D in terms of both biological activity and disease prevention ability, and babies benefit more.

As for babies under one year old, "sunbathing on the soles of the feet" is more worthy of promotion. The specific method is: on a sunny day, take off your baby's shoes and socks, and face the soles of his feet towards the sunlight, each time for about 20-30 minutes.

By doing this, the baby not only obtains vitamin D, but also stimulates the soles of the feet, which are covered with acupuncture points, through the ultraviolet rays in the sunlight, which speeds up the baby's metabolism and makes the stimulated internal organs work more efficiently.

Blood circulation becomes smoother, and the functions of all organs in the body can be brought to their fullest, thereby improving the originally weak physical constitution. It has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on many diseases common in infancy, such as purulent infections, rhinitis, anemia, cold intolerance, and hypotension.

Through the above simple introduction to the effects of vitamin D in children, I believe everyone now knows something. Children's vitamin D can maintain normal levels of citrate in the blood and promote the absorption of calcium and phosphorus. It is very good for children and you should not miss it.