Recipes help children not sick when erratic rain and sun

Supplementing fruits, yogurt, getting enough sleep, maintaining body hygiene, maintaining movement to help children strengthen resistance, repel disease.

Doctor Nguyen Thi Hoa, head of a hospital's nutrition department in Ho Chi Minh City, explained that children's resistance is still weak, unable to adapt to high temperatures, changing weather conditions and rapid spread of bacteria when the weather changes so they are more susceptible to disease.

To help children increase their resistance, increase their ability to cope with adverse environmental factors, parents should note:

Add vegetables and fruits

Vegetables and fruits provide a variety of nutrients, adding water, vitamins and minerals to the body. Eating fruits regularly helps increase immunity for children, avoiding common diseases. Giving children grapefruit, watermelon, grapes, oranges, amaranth, watermelon, spinach and dark green leafy vegetables.

Vegetables and fruits provide diverse nutrients, supplement water, vitamins . for the body.(Artwork: Health).

Add yogurt daily

Yogurt contains probiotics bacteria against harmful bacteria and viruses. Mother gives baby yogurt daily to increase resistance, support healthy digestive system, prevent constipation.

Children aged six months and older can eat yogurt. Please base on your child's preferences and developmental stage to provide the right amount of yogurt.

Make sure your baby gets enough sleep

Sleep not only affects the development of children but also increases resistance. When getting enough sleep, your baby will play well, eat well and have less crying. Depending on the stage, the number of hours the child sleeps changes: Babies sleep 18 hours a day, toddlers need 12 to 13 hours of sleep, kindergarteners sleep 10 hours.

Ensure baby body hygiene

Young children often like to explore things around so their hands and feet are dirty. Meanwhile, bacteria easily penetrate your baby's body causing digestive and respiratory diseases. She needs to keep an eye on and clean her young hands and feet to remove harmful bacteria.

Create opportunities for children to exercise more

Parents should not be too afraid of children with trauma but limit their chances of being active. Properly exercised children help blood circulation, increase resistance and immunity. In addition, advocacy also helps children become flexible, supple and eat well and grow quickly.