What is your baby's immunity?
Although frequent colds and fevers may ≠ low immunity! But people with low immunity are indeed prone to illness!
If you want to understand the immunity of your baby, you can initially check yourself according to your baby's situation:
1. Often sick, and obviously accompanied by backward growth and development, such as thinner than peers, shorter, etc.;
2. Every time you are sick, you can't get better on your own, and you need to go to the hospital for intravenous infusion or hospitalization;
3. Each bacterial infection requires the use of antibiotics for more than 2 months, and the effect may not be good;
4. Every time your child gets sick, he will have a serious infection, such as ≥ 6 ear or respiratory infections in 1 year; ≥ 2 serious sinus infections or pneumonia in 1 year; ≥ 4 new ear infections in 1 year; and even ≥ 2 sepsis or meningitis...
If the baby has the above performance, the parents should pay attention to it, and must go to the children's hospital in time for testing, because this is likely to be low immunity!
To improve your baby's immunity, these foods should be eaten appropriately!
In view of the baby's low immunity, Gu Mommy has listed 4 ways to improve immunity in the previous article, one of which is a balanced diet! Today, From this perspective, Gu Mommy recommends some foods that improve immunity for parents!
1, feeding breast milk:
In the first 6 months of life, exclusive breastfeeding is advocated. It is generally believed that babies who drink breast milk are less sick because breast milk is rich in immune substances, such as immunoglobulins that prevent bacteria and viruses from invading the body, which can enhance the baby's resistance to a certain extent.
Regarding the timing of breastfeeding, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends breastfeeding until 1 year as much as possible, while the WHO recommends breastfeeding until 2 years of age or older. Therefore, Gu Mommy suggested that bao moms, if conditions permit, try to continue breastfeeding until about 2 years old
2, protein food:
Babies from 6 to 24 months old can start scientifically adding complementary foods, during which time to encourage mothers to continue breastfeeding, while increasing the intake of nutritious complementary foods, such as protein foods.
The body's entire immune system needs a team of white blood cells to fight the invasion of foreign viruses or bacteria into the body, and protein is the main component of white blood cells.
Common protein-rich foods include eggs, dairy products, soy products and pigs, cows, chickens, sheep, seafood, offal and other meats, parents can add them according to their baby's diet. If you don't like to eat meat, you can also replace it with plant-based proteins such as tofu and soy milk.
3, vitamin food:
Even in the winter, your baby's diet must have vegetables and fruits, and the vitamins C, A, E and folic acid in these two foods are important nutrients to strengthen your baby's resistance!
Among them, dark green vegetables are rich in folic acid, such as spinach, green cabbage, cabbage, asparagus and cauliflower, etc.; fruits rich in vitamin C are kiwifruit, lemon, navel orange, grapefruit and so on.
Orange-yellow vegetables such as carrots and pumpkins will be transformed into vitamin A in the body to promote the production and maintenance of immune cells in the body; animal liver and cod liver oil are also rich in vitamin A; and most oily foods are rich in vitamin E, such as various nuts, vegetable oils, etc.
4. Necessary fatty foods:
Fat not only boosts your baby's immune system, but it can also help boost your baby's intelligence. And the baby can't synthesize enough plant fats on his own, which needs to be supplemented with food!
Gu Mommy suggested that parents can put some vegetable oil when cooking, or make porridge such as walnut porridge, eight treasure porridge, peanut porridge and other porridges, fish soup, seafood soup and so on for the baby every day.
5. Other foods that enhance immunity
Lean beef: Rich in trace elements iron and zinc that help prevent bacterial viral infections and parasites; it is best to eat lean beef, no more than 85 grams per day.
Legumes: An excellent source of iron and zinc, it is also rich in vitamin B6.
Mushrooms: Shiitake mushrooms and flat mushrooms are rich in β - dextran.
Salmon: Rich in vitamin D, it helps the body's immune system kill harmful bacteria and viruses, and eating fish at least twice a week can strengthen immunity.
Blueberry: Contains resveratrol and pterostilbene (an antibacterial ingredient) that, if combined with vitamin D, builds an immune line.
Yogurt: Can lower levels of "bad" cholesterol (low-density lipoprotein LDL) and reduce the risk of urinary tract infections by 47%.
Hawthorn: Helps digestion, antibacterial, enhances immunity and other effects.