having diseases
Children are the most susceptible to diseases due to their lack of knowledge of personal hygiene methods, which allows viruses and microbes to enter their bodies, causing them various diseases, but most often the immune system resists and eradicates these viruses and microbes before they multiply and affect the body’s vital processes. Immunity consists of systems of protection spread throughout the body, all adapted to the place of protection, so the more the immune system to defend the lower the incidence of child disease.
Ways to increase child immunity
- Feeding the infant from the mother, mother’s milk contains antivirals and microbes, which strengthens the immune system, and increases the resistance of the body to diseases, where it is always advised that the duration of breastfeeding for a full year.
- Providing fruits and vegetables to any other food and food. The child’s body needs a lot of nutrients that increase immunity, especially carrots, beans, oranges, and strawberries, which increase the number of white blood cells that are the first line of defense against viruses and bacteria.
- Get enough sleep, Sleep restores the body’s cells ability to work and resistance, lack of sleep lead to immune decline when the child and the large number of his illness, a child newborn needs 18 hours of sleep while the rest of the ages need between 10 and 14 hours a day.
- Exercise is appropriate for the age of the child. Activity and vitality help to renew blood circulation in the body and reach oxygen and nutrients to all cells of the body, including the immune system.
- To get rid of playing in places where garbage and epidemics multiply, wash teeth at least twice a day, and always wear clean clothes. .
- To avoid taking medicines and antibiotics unnecessarily, the immune system must become accustomed to resistance and kill the microbes alone to maintain the activity and continuing work, while if the body used the child to the presence of antibiotics and medicines to help control it will become lazy does not play properly, When a lot of antibiotics are produced, the body produces and resists antigens.
- Providing love, compassion and psychological care increases the immune system’s ability to resist disease and germs.
- Exposing the child to the sun to make sure he or she is getting vitamin D well.