Face 4 serious mistakes that Vietnamese mothers often make when increasing their resistance, especially number 1

Mistake 1: Adding vitamin C daily will the body not create resistance itself? Will children be 'ignored'?

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Tien Dung said, many parents are somewhat aware of the role of vitamin C with their resistance. However, there are many mothers who believe that if they give their children vitamin C supplements daily, they will be 'ignored'. Even long time your body will not produce antibodies, weaken your immune system and be dependent on vitamin C (!?).

In fact, vitamin C only supports, stimulates the immune system to work better, rather than changing the function of the immune system. And completely different from antibiotics or antiviral, vitamin C is micro-nutrients that will be lost every day according to the activity of the body (urine or sweat). While the body is unable to synthesize this nutrient. Therefore, daily supplementation of vitamin C helps to optimize the body's immune system without completely depending on vitamin C, without losing the body's ability to create resistance itself. In addition, the human body cannot produce vitamin C on its own but needs to be supplemented from outside.

Mistake 2: Only when a sick child supplements vitamin C

Many parents only focus on strengthening resistance when children get sick and supplementation with vitamin C will also end soon after the symptoms of illness are over.

In fact, when children get sick, the role of vitamin C will help children overcome illness faster, but if supplemented with vitamin C daily, vitamin C also serves to prevent the possibility of infection for children. Therefore, she should supplement her daily vitamin C to strengthen her solid immune barrier.

Mistake 3: Regular addition of vitamin C will cause your baby to have kidney stones

This is only true if high and prolonged doses of vitamin C are used (1,000 mg a day for adults and 400-1,200 mg a day for children 0-12 years). The reason is that after absorption, the body excretes excess vitamin C in the form of oxalate in the urine. Kidney stones are small crystals, which can be formed when calcium encounters oxalate. According to the recommended diet (RDA), children under 12 years of age have a daily vitamin C requirement of about 75mg - 120mg. Therefore, the daily supplement of 50-100mg of vitamin C is very reasonable and scientific so the mother can be assured.

Mistake 4: Adding innocence or too superficial

Adding too many nutrients at high levels at the same time is a mistake many Vietnamese mothers can cause to their children's health because there are nutrients that will accumulate over time and become redundant. For example, excess vitamin K causes hemolysis and jaundice. Excess calcium leads to fatigue, anorexia, kidney stones . Therefore, every micronutrient supplement for children, mothers need to calculate the content, level of need and microelements carefully.

In contrast to the outrageous psychology, many Vietnamese mothers due to objective or subjective factors have not focused on supplementing vitamin C for children. The main cause of this is the characteristic: the mother does not have much time to stay with her child, the child goes to class or picks food, it is difficult to drink in the child .

The immune system of children from birth to age 5 is still very immature, especially in the transition period, which makes it difficult for children to have health problems such as: cough, viral fever, dengue . affect small to children's health and development. Therefore, vitamin C is the mother nutrient that needs special attention to supplement and correct for children every day.