Responsible and caring parents often face the question of whether their child needs additional vitamins for growth and development, except for those that he receives with food. Let's deal with this in more detail, but at the same time we will learn more precisely what vitamins are needed for the growth of children.
A child’s body is a delicate, thin, far from perfect system that functions according to the most complex laws. Therefore, one who considers a child to be just a reduced copy of an adult is absolutely wrong. The kid is constantly to one degree or another developing and growing. But often the food he consumes does not contain the proper amount of nutrients. This is due to the lack of habit of eating healthy food in many families, and the non-observance of the rules of storage and processing of products in order to preserve useful substances in them, and the general chemicalization of agriculture, and the increasing degree of environmental toxicity and so on. Especially the lack of vitamins and other necessary substances is noticeable during periods of rapid growth, after an illness, during spring vitamin deficiency, etc. And if you consider that far from all the necessary substances can come from outside or reproduced by the body, then really suitable vitamins for growth must also be found in a pharmacy. But here you can’t be mistaken. Knowing what a particular child needs and what are the properties of individual vitamins, you need to choose the most appropriate multivitamin complex.
Recall that each vitamin gives us:
- Vitamin A - helps to solve the problem of slow growth, frequent diseases, rapid fatigue; it strengthens vision and positively affects the condition of the skin and mucous membranes;
- B vitamins - promote growth, increase mental activity and stamina;
- Vitamin C is also good for growth, increases the body's resistance to various diseases, promotes good absorption of iron and calcium, helps to remove toxic substances from the body;
Vitamin D can also be allocated to the “vitamins for growth” group, it positively affects the absorption of phosphorus and calcium, which helps to increase muscle tone;
- Vitamin E - in addition to promoting active growth, it ensures normal blood coagulation, high-quality functioning of the nervous system, accelerates the healing process of wounds and gives strength to a person;
- Vitamin H is one of the most important growth vitamins for a child , since it is he who charges the muscles with the necessary energy.
Vitamins for growth for teens are the same as for babies, only the dosage is different. Therefore, if in the multivitamin complex all of the abovementioned useful substances are contained in the proper amount, then the growing organism will be fully supported and supported.
I would also like to clarify the age periods when additional nutrition with vitamins is absolutely necessary for all children. First of all, this is the time when there is an active growth of the skeleton and / or change of milk teeth:
- 3 years;
- 5 - 7 years;
- 11 - 15 years.
The need to receive vitamins for growth in other periods should be assessed by the parents themselves. If the child is active, cheerful, inquisitive, restless, if he is practically not sick and develops according to age, and on the table are constantly high-quality products and a sufficient number of various vegetables and fruits, then most likely, during periods of slow skeleton growth, he will not need vitamin complexes from the pharmacy.
Watching the nutrition of our children, including only healthy food in their diet and excluding harmful (carbonated drinks, chips and other fast food, excess sweets), timely feeding the children's body with vitamins, we guarantee them health and good mood for many years to come.
Health to you and your children!