How to strengthen your immune system

During cold season, it is so important to have good immunity. Of course, when the weather outside is bad, it’s good to stay at home, but who likes to be sick? This article will tell you how to strengthen your immune system so that you get colds as rarely as possible. What products and traditional medicine increase the body's resistance.

How to strengthen the body's immunity

When we get sick, the body devotes all its strength to fighting the infection or virus. This means that all the vitamins and nutrients that our body stores are spent on fighting the disease and run out many times faster than under normal conditions. Don’t think that strengthening your immune system once is enough for your entire life. Firstly, the body's resources are not endless. Secondly, viruses tend to evolve and even mutate. Therefore, you need to exercise your immunity regularly. When immunity decreases, failure occurs in the functioning of all organs.

Immunity happens:

• Innate. Fights any infections, even if you encounter them for the first time.
• Acquired. It remains after a person has been ill with something. The body has developed an “antidote” that remains in the cells forever.

Also, immunity can be active - initially capable of fighting, and passive - stimulated by taking special supplements or vaccinations.

Thus, the immune system can be strengthened with special drugs - immunomodulators. But it’s better, of course, to start with folk remedies - you don’t need to consult a doctor to use them.

How to boost your immunity

The following factors reduce the body's resistance:

1. Permanent stress and nervous conditions. This is probably the most important factor that undermines health.
2. Regular lack of sleep. Don't let fatigue build up. Mountains of literature have been written about the importance of adequate sleep. But people still underestimate him.
3. Irregular meals. By eating incorrectly, we often cause harm to the body. Although, it seems, we are serving a good purpose. By the way, gluttony is no less harmful than malnutrition.
4. Abuse of alcohol, caffeine and nicotine. This also wastes the body's useful substances.
5. Neglect of sports and personal hygiene. Sport makes blood run more actively through the veins, which means nutrients reach the organs faster.
6. Use of antibiotics.

This means that to strengthen the body’s immune system, you need to establish all the points listed above.

Immune boosters

First of all, this is a quality product proper nutrition. It’s not for nothing that they say “You are what you eat.” All kinds of instant products and fast food do not carry any beneficial load for the body. They are created to quickly satisfy hunger. Sometimes they are made from low-quality or spoiled products. Eating such foods can, at a minimum, lead to poisoning. And it’s good if we are talking about a common gastrointestinal disorder. Some unscrupulous manufacturers do not hesitate to use GMOs and harmful additives. How can you cause great damage to your health?

In addition to a healthy diet, exercise has a beneficial effect on the immune system. Physical activity helps speed up metabolism, saturation of cells with oxygen. Which has a good effect on the entire body as a whole.

There is also a proven folk remedy that promotes vigor and rejuvenation of the body. Hardening. In addition to the cosmetic effect, alternating cold and hot water tightens the skin, hardening heals the entire body as a whole. You just need to apply this practice correctly, do not alternate hot and lukewarm temperatures, but douse yourself with contrasting water. And be sure to be completely icy at least once. It is the sharp short-term cold that activates the body's dormant defense mechanisms.

The easiest way to do hardening is in a bathhouse. After the body warms up enough, you need to go outside and rub yourself in the snow. If there is a body of water nearby, even better. If there is no way at all, just douse yourself with a bucket of cold water. While in the steam room, if no one has allergies, you can smear yourself with honey. This way, beneficial substances will enter the body through open pores. Plus, honey softens and moisturizes the skin.

How to strengthen the immune system with folk remedies

Traditional medicine involves the use of natural vitamins contained in berries, vegetables and fruits. It is natural, and not artificially synthesized, vitamins that can truly strengthen the immune system. For example, you can simply add frozen berries to tea. It is not only very healthy, but also delicious. You also need to drink as much compotes and fruit drinks made from fresh berries and fruits as possible.

It is also necessary to add honey to your daily diet. It is better to completely switch from sugar to it. After all, honey is so rich in microelements and vitamins. This is one of the best natural remedies for promoting health. Especially when it comes to kids with a sweet tooth.

Traditional medicine recommends replacing tea with herbal infusions. It is not only very healthy, but also delicious. What a aroma of tea with mint and lemon balm! If you can’t completely switch to herbal teas, you can use mixed formulations. In regular black tea, by the way, you shouldn’t make it too strong - excess caffeine is harmful to the body, add a pinch of your favorite herbs or berry leaves.

The following plants strengthen the immune system well and help fight existing viruses:

• aloe, anise and calamus;
• elderberry, currant, basil and walnut leaves;
• ginseng;
• Kalanchoe;
• onions, garlic, beets and radishes;
• horsetail.

Medicines for immunity

In addition to natural sources of immunity, there are also pharmaceutical products. And their choice is quite wide. For example, everyone has known such an immunomodulator as echinacea extract since childhood.

Other drugs that stimulate the immune system:

1. Kagocel. An antiviral agent, but it promotes the synthesis of interferon, a substance that the body primarily secretes to fight infection.
2. Arbidol has the same principle as Kagocel.
3. Viferon. In addition to fighting viruses, it helps in mild cases of sexually transmitted infections and diseases of the genitourinary system.
4. Derinat, copes with gynecological diseases and ischemia.
5. Regular pharmacy ascorbic acid. Vitamin C helps strengthen the immune system and accelerates the enrichment of body cells with vitamins.

Products for immunity

To strengthen your immune system you need to eat:

• fresh meat - chicken, beef, and offal;
• fermented milk products;
• whole wheat bread;
• natural honey;
• compotes and fruit drinks from natural berries in season, or frozen;
• porridge from natural grains - buckwheat, rice, rolled oats, millet, legumes;
• nuts;
• fresh vegetables and fruits, as well as dried fruits - it is believed that they contain even more vitamins than fresh ones.

Eat less fried, salty and spicy foods. These products, although tasty, provide little benefit. And they cause a lot of harm to health. For example, fatty foods impede metabolism, overload the gastrointestinal tract and contribute to the formation of cholesterol plaques. Salty food damages the mucous membrane of the stomach and esophagus, and the body has to use vitamins to restore it.

Eat as many fermented milk products as possible. They are rich in calcium and beneficial microelements that facilitate intestinal function. Don't forget the spices too. Moderate consumption of seasonings will help the body become more energetic, cleanse itself of toxins, and speed up metabolism. Of course, you shouldn’t get carried away with spicy seasonings.

How to boost your child's immunity

To increase the body's resistance to all diseases in children, the following rules must be followed:

1. Correct and regular food. No snacks or junk food.
2. Full healthy sleep. Only a properly rested body will have the strength to fight the virus. Plus, a sick body experiences weakness and an increased desire to sleep.
3. Teach your child to personal hygiene. The fewer unnecessary bacteria located on a person, the better.
4. If the child is already sick, try to treat him correctly. You should not give your child an antibiotic at the slightest sign of illness - it affects the beneficial intestinal microflora.
5. Give your baby more positive emotions, don’t be shy to show your love and care. After all, if cats scratch your soul, then your whole body weakens.

What to give children for immunity

If a mother is concerned about her child’s immunity from birth, then first of all, she needs to breastfeed the baby. Only mother's milk Gives the child's body all the necessary vitamins and microelements. Also, breast milk has optimal fat content; nature itself selected its composition specifically for this child.  But at this diet mothers should be completely balanced and enriched vitamins. After all if organism moms not there will be receive vitamins, how him transmit them baby?

Already with 3—4 months child you can give apple decoction. For him preparations need clear pulp apple from peel, seeds and stalks. And boil in boiling water 10—15 minutes. After what cool down and suggest baby instead of ordinary water. Apple decoction will complement diet baby vitamins, how already it is known for immunity vitamins a lot not it happens. Plus, this is opportunity decide problem with constipation — at many children he begins already with 3 months. Instead of that, to apply what—then laxatives pharmacy funds or gas outlet phone, try it give apple decoction.

If talk o more seniors children, then this is again same correct food. Eliminate soda, chips and other junk from your child's diet.  Everyone day in diet growing up generations should be fresh fruit and vegetables, nuts and dried fruits. Okay do home sweetness for promotion immunity.

1. Finely cut washed dried fruits — dried apricots, figs,  prunes, dates, raisins, everything what yes.
2. Grind nuts, not quite in powder, but yes to it was convenient yes. Nuts can be any, but walnuts are considered the most rich by quantity reserves vitamins and minerals.
3. Fill in mixture honey and give me brew a couple hours. You can add cinnamon or carnations for aroma. Have a nice one appetite!

This mixture good do in winter, because what she real vitamin bomb. Plus, this is very delicious and quite maybe replace purchased sweets.