It would seem that it's much easier: they looked in the pharmacy, bought a cute jar of vitamins - and health! Do not hurry. Before replenishing the first-aid kit with a new package, pay attention to the baby's diet.
Healing ascorbic
According to statistics, vitamin C - ascorbic acid is more often and more often than not the vitamin deficiency of a young child. This is almost the main vitamin, which protects babies from many diseases. With its deficiency, the child becomes sluggish, drowsy, quickly fatigued. Such children do not heal for a long time, there are no stomatitis, they endlessly catch cold, because the lack of ascorbion weakens the immune system.
Judge for yourself : the level of vitamin C in white blood cells - leukocytes, which are the first to respond to an infection, is one thousand (!) Times higher than in blood serum. If the content of ascorbic acid is 4 times lower than normal, leukocytes copes with their defensive duties in the same amount of time. That is why in the cold season all children, especially weakened, need to take additional ascorbic acid, thereby replacing the lack of vitamins in a young child. But keep in mind: the need for a child's body in it is higher than that of an adult. We every day need 1 mg of vitamin C per kilogram of weight, and a child needs 2-3 times more!
Tip
Let's askorbinku with a lack of vitamins for a young child in a "live" form - desserts from freshly frozen berries of black arctic ash and black currant, rose hips infusion, freshly squeezed citrus juices (if there is no allergy).
Recharge mode
In addition to ascorbic acid, children in our country receive less B vitamins - thiamine (B,), riboflavin (B2), pyridoxine (B6), nicotinamide (PP), and folic acid. At the child the lips dry and the weathering is exhausted, at the corners of the mouth there are jaunts with a yellow crust, teary eyes? It looks like a deficiency of vitamin B2!
Is your child always in a minor mood? He obviously lacks vitamin joy - folic acid. It is equally necessary and unsmiling, capricious. to children with eyes; constantly on a wet place, and problem teenagers who tend to over-dramatize events and often display aggression. Norwegian scientists found that the blood of frowning children increased the level of amino acid homocysteine, which is a danger to the blood vessels and does not contribute to a good mood. Folic acid leads this indicator to normal, and the child - in an excellent mood.
Tip
Daily treat your child with a vitamin salad with folic acid - it is found in greens, leafy vegetables and green parts of plants.
Carrot Flashlight
Recently the child often catches a cold? Complains of visual impairment? It seems that he lacks beta-carotene - provitamin A. Like ascorbic, beta-carotene is one of the antioxidants that neutralize the impact of environmentally unfavorable conditions on the children's body. By the way, the lack of vitamins in a young child is found in 60-70%! Sources of beta-carotene - liver, carrots, spinach, parsley, sorrel, dill, apricots.
Tip
Give the child freshly squeezed juices - carrot, orange (if there is no allergy), apple, pomegranate, and also cranberry and cranberry fruit cockles. They contain "living" vitamins, necessary for the immune system.
Chemistry and Life
According to the Scientific Research Institute of Nutrition the lack of vitamins in a small child in the diet is 60-65%. Even perfectly constructed, it turns out to be scarce for most of them by 20%. That is, no matter how you feed the child with vegetables and fruits, they can not completely replenish his need for all vitamins. An additional reception of pharmacy complexes, selected by a pediatrician, is necessary.
There is an opinion that vitamin complexes are poorly digested: they say, the body recognizes a synthetic "fake" and refuses to use it. In fact, vitamins from the test tube are already ready for digestion, and the natural digestive system still needs to be treated. So it turns out that ideally the vitamins should be absorbed from food by 90-95%, but only 50-60% is available to the body. The rest, you have to "pick" from the chemical "elixirs of life."
From the green medicine chest
To cope with a lack of vitamins in a small child will help vitamin tea. Brew it to the child, alternating recipes. Tablespoon of the collection should be filled with boiling water, let it brew for 3-4 hours, strain. Baby 2-3 years, give 50 ml of infusion, preschool-75 ml of a child of school age, 100-150 ml 2-3 times a day.