School is just around the corner! Kids will be sharing all kinds of bugs and bringing them back home to you. Do you have game plan yet?
We call the beginning of the school year the cold and flu season for a reason. Kids are getting their vaccinations up to date, creating a bunch of disease carriers. If you’re not prepared for the onslaught of potential diseases, you and your kids may be victims waiting to happen.
This widespread phenomena isn’t just isolated to school kids and their parents, but also to grandparents, baby sitters, and anyone coming in contact with our kids. This is why a good offense is far better than trying to repair the damage once it happens. Here is where we can help!
When kids go back to school, their routine changes. Diets change. Kids either pack their lunches or rely on school lunches. This gives less opportunity to enjoy fresh fruits and vegetables. But, there are things we can do to protect our kids and ourselves during this time of transition.
Reducing excess sugar in the diet prevents your defenses from dropping. Sugar literally drops the number of bacteria your white cells can destroy in any given day. Just one soda pop can literally immobilize your lymphocyte killing capacity. With this in mind, think about what kind of snacks you pack for your children to take to school.
Natural sugars found in fresh fruit are far less concentrated than those snacks pushed at our kids through television and other sources. The fact that many schools have included soda machines to generate revenue, has seriously impacted our kids health, and been another source of obesity and early onset diabetes.
Educating your kids on what’s healthy and not healthy is a great start. What you yourself eat is a much louder commentary to your kids than anything you can say. Develop their taste buds to crave healthy food. This comes only with time and abstinence from excessive sugars and processed foods. Provide high nutrient foods instead.
Vitamin A is critical in maintaining the strength of membranes, protecting your inner tissues from vital and bacterial invasion. The use of a good vitamin A supplement can help avoid sinus and ear infections in your child, as well as yourself.
Calcium is well known for it’s involvement in offsetting inflammation and supporting the function of white blood cells in fighting disease. If there isn’t enough calcium to fight an infection, fever results, raising body temperature to release calcium from the bones to help fight. Sugar in the diet pulls calcium out of the system allowing for greater immune weakness. Adding in an easily absorbed calcium like calcium lactate is a great start.
Vitamin C, in a form which incorporates more than just ascorbic acid is important in the prevention of all disease. Often times we see mega-doses of vitamin C attempted and still the patient succumbs to the cold or flu. Food based vitamin C with all the active factors is what’s required by your body.
Your thymus gland performs surveillance within your body, acting behind the scenes to dispatch your immune system when called for. I use a product with thymus to support this area, preventing as well as stoping infections that have begun.
All these items are found in a special complex I give my patients and their kids when facing potential colds or flu. With the beginning of the school year close at hand, check in and get prepared. The cold and flu remedy I created 31 years ago is a local favorite. If your family is prone to these problems, contact our office and we can get you prepared for the school year.
We call the beginning of the school year the cold and flu season for a reason. Kids are getting their vaccinations up to date, creating a bunch of disease carriers. If you’re not prepared for the onslaught of potential diseases, you and your kids may be victims waiting to happen.
This widespread phenomena isn’t just isolated to school kids and their parents, but also to grandparents, baby sitters, and anyone coming in contact with our kids. This is why a good offense is far better than trying to repair the damage once it happens. Here is where we can help!
When kids go back to school, their routine changes. Diets change. Kids either pack their lunches or rely on school lunches. This gives less opportunity to enjoy fresh fruits and vegetables. But, there are things we can do to protect our kids and ourselves during this time of transition.
Reducing excess sugar in the diet prevents your defenses from dropping. Sugar literally drops the number of bacteria your white cells can destroy in any given day. Just one soda pop can literally immobilize your lymphocyte killing capacity. With this in mind, think about what kind of snacks you pack for your children to take to school.
Natural sugars found in fresh fruit are far less concentrated than those snacks pushed at our kids through television and other sources. The fact that many schools have included soda machines to generate revenue, has seriously impacted our kids health, and been another source of obesity and early onset diabetes.
Educating your kids on what’s healthy and not healthy is a great start. What you yourself eat is a much louder commentary to your kids than anything you can say. Develop their taste buds to crave healthy food. This comes only with time and abstinence from excessive sugars and processed foods. Provide high nutrient foods instead.
Vitamin A is critical in maintaining the strength of membranes, protecting your inner tissues from vital and bacterial invasion. The use of a good vitamin A supplement can help avoid sinus and ear infections in your child, as well as yourself.
Calcium is well known for it’s involvement in offsetting inflammation and supporting the function of white blood cells in fighting disease. If there isn’t enough calcium to fight an infection, fever results, raising body temperature to release calcium from the bones to help fight. Sugar in the diet pulls calcium out of the system allowing for greater immune weakness. Adding in an easily absorbed calcium like calcium lactate is a great start.
Vitamin C, in a form which incorporates more than just ascorbic acid is important in the prevention of all disease. Often times we see mega-doses of vitamin C attempted and still the patient succumbs to the cold or flu. Food based vitamin C with all the active factors is what’s required by your body.
Your thymus gland performs surveillance within your body, acting behind the scenes to dispatch your immune system when called for. I use a product with thymus to support this area, preventing as well as stoping infections that have begun.
All these items are found in a special complex I give my patients and their kids when facing potential colds or flu. With the beginning of the school year close at hand, check in and get prepared. The cold and flu remedy I created 31 years ago is a local favorite. If your family is prone to these problems, contact our office and we can get you prepared for the school year.
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