How to strengthen the immunity of a child?

First, let's figure out how to determine,that your child has poor immunity. Frequent catarrhal diseases and problems with the digestive system, slow healing of wounds and scratches, repeated herpes, increased lymph nodes, allergies, drowsiness, fatigue, irritability - all these symptoms can indicate that your child has problems with immunity.

To strengthen the immunity of the child, you need first of all provide him with adequate nutrition. Unfortunately, children's meals at school in themost cases leave much to be desired, so you will have to give him food with you. The diet should contain all the necessary nutrients (proteins, fats, carbohydrates), vitamins and minerals. You can give and multivitamin complexes, but keep in mind that for the normal assimilation of vitamins "from the jar" vitamins are needed in food.

Watch out for adherence to diet: the child should eat 3-4 times a day. But if he refuses, do not stubbornly persuade him. The child's organism must learn to control the need for food, your task is to ensure that it feeds on time. Try to limit the consumption of fatty, fried or smoked food, preference should be given to cereals, dairy products (including sour milk), vegetables and fruits. But some of the muffins and sweets are better replaced with dried fruits - it is tasty and useful. Although it is not worth it to deprive a child of sweets.

To strengthen the immunity of the child will help and correct mode of the day. The child should sleep well (fora full sleep should be at least 9-10 hours). Mental and physical activity must necessarily alternate with rest. This means, in particular, that you can not sit the child to do homework right after he came out of school: give him a couple of hours to rest.

Very important for good immunity moderate physical activity. Try to teach the child to do the morningcharging. You can do it together, if there is such an opportunity. First, the example of parents is encouraging. Secondly, joint activity brings together, do not give up the chance to spend more time with the child. Thirdly, charging will help to improve yourself, but for your own sake you would not have started to do it - so start for the sake of the child.

You can give the child to study in the sports section, if you have the opportunity, and he has the desire (the right way to give the child the love of sports - to make him "do not want to do it"). One of the best options is swimming. It favorably affects virtually all body systems, hardens it and serves as an excellent preventive maintenance of diseases of the spine.

To strengthen the immunity of the child will help and immunostimulants - means to improve immunity. But to stuff the child with pills without special need is not necessary. It is better to give preference natural stimulants of immunity. These are tinctures and extracts of the root of ginseng, Chinese magnolia vine, echinacea purpurea, eleutherococcus.

Can be given to a child berry and herbal preparations. Try, for example, such a recipe. Mix in equal proportions the hips and arnica, the berries of red mountain ash, blueberries and black currant, grass of nettle and plantain. Grind everything with the help of a meat grinder or a coffee grinder and brew at the rate of 1 tsp. mixture on a glass of water. This collection is drunk as a tea.

Or another option for collecting: Mix 200 g of licorice root, 100 g of leavesnettle, root of aira and lapchatka, flowers of calendula, herb spores and St. John's wort and 30 g of rose hips. Torsion everything in a meat grinder. 1 tsp mix the mixture with a glass of warm water and insist half an hour. Then add half a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar, a third of a teaspoon of honey and 3 drops of tincture of ginseng.

Also strengthen the immunity of the child will help walkin the fresh air, hardening (only gradual - if you just begin to temper the child, do not start immediately with dousing with cold water), walking barefoot, massage. Watch out for freshness and humidity in the room, protect the child from tobacco smoke.

And remember: immunity and health of the child - in the hands of parents!