How to enhance your baby's immunity

The physical health of babies is inseparable from their resistance. Generally speaking, babies with good resistance rarely get sick. Children with poor resistance are very likely to get sick, especially colds and fevers. Babies are most likely to get sick during the seasons of changing seasons. Many parents want to make their babies healthier by enhancing their resistance. So how can we enhance the resistance of babies?

In a person's life, immunity is divided into several stages. Among them, before the age of 6 is called "physiological immunodeficiency state", so the baby has poor resistance and is prone to illness. Before the baby is 6 months old, because the mother's breast milk contains immune proteins, the baby has its own resistance and can prevent viral invasion. After 6 months, the baby's resistance obtained from the mother will gradually decrease. Finally, the baby will have a certain resistance of his own, but it will be slightly worse than 6 months ago. When the baby's immunity is poor, the baby will easily develop symptoms such as colds. Babies have poor immunity and often catch colds, which has a significant impact on their healthy growth.

Cold is a self-healing disease, and its clinical manifestations are characterized by nasal congestion, cough, headache, chills and fever, and general discomfort. The disease can occur throughout the year, but is more common in spring. Common acute infectious respiratory diseases, colds, are clinically divided into common colds and influenza. If the baby has poor resistance, he will often suffer from cold symptoms. Therefore, mothers should help their babies improve their resistance.

If a baby has poor resistance, you can strengthen nutrition, especially protein foods, or treat it with medication. If the baby is zinc deficient, the resistance will also be poor, so zinc supplementation can be appropriate at this time. Children are prone to catching colds when their immunity is poor. It is also a good choice to get vaccinations in advance to prevent colds when the seasons change. You should pay attention to your diet, maintain a balanced nutrition, eat more fruits and vegetables, supplement enough vitamin C, maintain good living habits, and insist on exercising. This will improve your physical fitness and reduce the number of colds. If necessary, you can consider using some immunomodulators for treatment under the guidance of a doctor.

What if the baby has poor resistance?

1. Provide adequate nutrition

Babies are in a continuous growth and development stage and require relatively more nutrients. However, since the digestive function is not fully mature and the diet is often monotonous, nutrient deficiencies are easy to occur; if there is insufficient nutrition, the resistance will be relatively poor. According to current research, mild (or subclinical) vitamin A and vitamin C deficiency is a common cause of recurrent respiratory tract infections in children. Therefore, eating more fresh colorful vegetables and fruits rich in vitamin C (the beta-carotene contained in them can be converted into vitamin A in the body) or supplementing with some multivitamin preparations can indeed effectively increase the baby's resistance.

2. Do some physical exercise

This is an important aspect of strengthening your physical fitness. Exercise should start from an early age. After a baby is one month old, he can lie outside for a while in the summer and open the window to breathe fresh air in the winter. Don't wear too many clothes. Train your baby to adapt to colder environments from an early age so that he will not easily catch a cold when the climate changes. Outdoor activities can not only enable the skin to synthesize vitamin D, thereby promoting calcium absorption, but also have a good effect on the development of muscles, bones, respiratory, circulatory systems and the metabolism of the whole body. Regular exercise can also increase your appetite. If your baby takes in enough nutrients, his physical fitness will be enhanced and his resistance will be significantly increased.

3. Get enough sleep

Poor sleep can reduce the number of T cells in the body that are responsible for fighting viruses and tumors, thereby increasing the chance of getting sick. Experts recommend that growing babies need 8-10 hours of sleep per day.

4. Do not use antibiotics arbitrarily

When the infection is not very serious, try not to use antibiotics, but rely on your own resistance to exercise the immune system. In this way, when you encounter the same "enemy" next time, the trained immune cells will produce targeted immunity to protect the body's safety.