Tips to Boost Immunity in Children

Tips to Boost Immunity in Children

27 Sep 2021 | 2 min Read

Dr Pooja Sutar

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A child’s immunity is dependent on eating healthy foods and is also associated with habits and the environment that a child lives in. It goes a long way to ensure that child is beneficial in every sort.

Parenthood, undoubtedly, is one of the challenging phases of every adult. Keeping the children healthy, happy, and safe from every bad atmosphere becomes paramount for every parent. Nothing is more painful than seeing our children coughing, sneezing or down with the fever. As the child starts his preschool, the repeated occurrence of cough, sneeze, cold becomes a common scenario. Hence, at this stage immunity plays a vital role. So, how can parents develop a healthy immunity in children? Here are the tips to boost immunity in children.

Must Include One Seasonal Fruit

Try to include at least one seasonal fruit in your child’s daily meal. If they don’t like to eat any fruit as a whole, serve them in a different way like smoothies, fruit shakes, fruit salads, etc.

Deal Short Hunger Pangs

Young toddlers, being super energetic, feel hungry more often especially during the evening time. So, make sure you’re serving light meals to your child at this particular time. The short hunger pangs has a lot of impact on your child’s health. You may serve ladoo, or halwa or anything simple as Roti, Ghee and Jaggery roll to let them stay energetic.

Maintain Sleeping Schedule

Apart from eating healthy, there are lots of other things that influence the good health of the children. Diet is just a side to maintain healthy immunity in children, the importance of the maintaining a sleeping schedule should not be overlooked. Sleeping plays an important role in developing children’s immunity. It cuts down the risk of obesity and other health related issues.

Physical Activity

Physical fitness is yet another an important thing to consider for boosting immunity in children. Exercise, meditation and outdoor activities make their body more competent to fight against any diseases. It further boosts metabolism and cuts down the risk of chronic health issues.

Apart from these tips to boost immunity in children, there are several other ways too. For example, foods like yogurt, oats, dry fruits, broccoli, etc. The main focus should be on the complete holistic development of child instead of simple diet of the children.

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