June 29th, 2010 -- Posted in Health Articles |
Recently many additives advertised for various products such as vitamins and minerals, nutritional supplements, or choice of traditional materials alleged to increase immunity against various diseases.
Some of the points, but most of them are not efficient. So it’s better for us to understand that is called the human immune system will be briefly described in this article.
The immune system called Immunology. The immune system is unable to prevent the various organs, including the respiratory tract, from various infections.
Division of the human immune system
An outline of the human immune divided into two:
Non-specific immune
Called non-specific because the immune system is intended to prevent the entry of all kinds of substances from outside that are alien to the body and can cause damage to body / disease, such as various types of bacteria, viruses, parasites or substances harmful to the body.
Body’s immune defense system or a non-specific body’s immune
- Physical defense of mucous membrane skin
- Enzyme chemical gastric acidity
- Vibrating Hair mechanical bowel movement mucus membrane
- Phagocytic ingestion of foreign substances by bacteria and white blood cells
- Completing substance that functions in various processes extermination of germs or foreign substances
Damage defense system will facilitate the entry of a fetus or foreign body. For example, skin ulcers, violations of acidity gastric juice, violation of defecation or swallowing an embryo of a process or a foreign body in white blood cells (leukocytes)
Specific immune
If the entry of bacteria or foreign substances can not be avoided by the non immune system, so the immune system is required with a higher level or specific.
There are two types of the immune system that play a role in specific immunity, namely: cellular and humoral immunity. This immunity only play a role in germ or foreign substance that has been known to mean when the type of bacteria or foreign substances that have never or more than once entered into the human body.
Immune Disorders
Immune system disorders in the two of type:
- Primary immune disorders. For unknown reasons and has been there since birth.
- Impaired immunity secondary, caused by other factors, such as infection (AIDS, measles, etc.), malnutrition as well as malignant diseases, like cancer, leukemia, drugs such as corticosteroid hormone-containing drugs, drugs for cancer, other etc..
Factors that affect the immune
- infection
- disease
- drugs
- malabsorpsi
- ages
Treatment of immune disorders
When that happens interference immunity, the doctor will provide treatment in several ways:
Patient isolation is not so easy to catch infectious diseases
- Supplementation with giving gamaglobulin (antibodies from the outside), or giving antibiotics if there are secondary infections
- Drugs that stimulate the immune system
- Treat the disease causes the immune disorders
How to maintain the body’s immune
- Infection prevention
- Malignant disease prevention
- Avoid certain medications that have been mentioned above, except for recipe/doctor oversight
- Nutritional disorders
- In young children (infants and toddlers) as well as those of old age, avoid contact with someone suffering from an infection that is not easily contracted.
June 8th, 2010 -- Posted in Skin health |
Skin lie in the outermost parts of our body. According to the Dictionary of medicine, the skin is the tissue covering the surface of the body. Skin is the body armor or protection against the outside. Because of their function, then the health of the skin should be well guarded.
Skin health of children also needed to get the attention, because children’s skin is thinner than adult. When the children’s skin is health, it will make your child comfort while doing the activity. And it will support the process of learning.
Children’s Skin Problems
Children tend to be always active, so it will be easier to sweat. And that’s mixing with sweat and dirt, will usually cause skin problems in children, such as itching, perspiration is not good, etc..
Here are some skin problems that often arise in children according to age, namely:
Problems that often arise at this age usually is diaper rash. This problem arises because of how the use of diapers are not true. Both disposible diapers or diaper material (washed).
In disposible diapers (diapers), parents may neglect to change the baby diaper after some time, so the child will exposed to dirt on the inside and eventually cause diaper rash.
While the diaper material, probably when washing diapers, we use a softener or fragrances that cause allergies in children, so that will cause itching reactions in children.
At this age, children usually begin their activities outside the home, so it will cause problems such as prickly heat or insect bites.
Well, at this age, children begin to move more frequently outside the home, and tend to have started ignoring bath time, so that the skin problems that often arise such as eczema that does not heal or relapse frequently.
If the problem of skin does not heal, usually parents began to forbid children to eat certain foods. Indeed, if the skin problems that arise are caused by the consumption of certain foods, then these foods should be avoided. But, if the problem is not because the food, we must look for originators.
Allergies are usually characterized by the reaction of the skin, like eczema, the cause is multifactorial. Could be due to food, animals, dust, climate, or perhaps was a descendant. And this cause must be known with certainty.
If the skin problem has appeared, then that must be done by parents is to stay small to maintain cleanliness of the skin. Try to keep bath soap 2X a day and use age-appropriate child. And if your baby tends to dry skin, we can use an appropriate moisturizer with age as well. However, if indeed such a complaint has been accompanied by an infection, then we must immediately bring the child to the doctor.
Use of sunscreen for your child also highly recommended, because sunlight can also damage them sometimes. Therefore, it is advisable to use sunscreen if your child wants to swim, but certainly the appropriate sunscreen to the age of the child.
The Importance of Nutrition
All nutrients are needed by children in the growth of the process. No single nutrient is more important than other nutrients, so the nutritional needs of children will be fulfilled. The trick is to consume a balanced diet, which consists of staple food, side dishes, vegetables, fruit and milk. By considering the composition of the food, it is expected that children’s nutritional needs will be met.
However, there are several nutrients that can support the skin health of the child, namely:
- Vitamin A, which many found in vegetables and fruits that are red and yellow, like carrots, tomatoes, pumpkins, squash machetes, yams, corn, etc..
- Vitamin E which acts as an antioxidant, which many found on soybeans
- Vitamin C that functioned to antioxidants contained in grapes, strawberries, guava, etc.
- Protein whose function is to replace cells damaged skin, which is widely available in milk, fish
- DHA Essential fatty acids such as DHA which functions as an anti-inflammatory or anti-inflammatory. DHA is widely found in many marine fish, fish oil or milk which has been enriched with DHA
So, the important thing is to fill your child’s nutritional needs, so it can support health. With the baby’s nutritional needs are met from food dishes daily, so the child does not need supplements.
If your toddler does not eat certain foods such as seafood or eggs because allergy to these foods, then we should give one another food group with seafood or eggs, such as chicken, meat or vegetable protein sources such as tofu or tempeh.