Many people have asked me over the years what I recommend to help strengthen and protect children from getting serious infectious diseases. This article will cover several important aspects of strengthening your child’s immune system. The major function of the child’s immune system is to protect their little bodies against common childhood disease such as whooping cough, rubella, tetanus, typhoid, etc. infection, as well as colds and flu, herpes, hepatitis, etc. Reduced efficiency and poor performance of a child’s immune system has many causes, among which are junk-food diets, devitalised, “chemicalised” as well as antibiotic-containing foods, environmental chemicals, medical drug use, passive smoking, stress, domestic issues, and under-nourishment or nutritional deficiencies – a very common cause of a child’s immune deficiency.

Are you concerned about your child’s poor immune status, does he or she continually get sick each fall and winter? Is there recurrent cough, asthma or eczema? Let’s go over some of the following categories in more detail:

o Psychological: provide a stress free and loving home environment for your child
o Improve your child’s digestion & bowel by avoiding drugs like antibiotics as much as possible.
o Improve the diet through reducing junk foods and known toxins, like aspartame.
o Remove potential offending allergy-stimulating foods – like dairy, wheat, etc.
o Stimulate the body’s recovery with sound nutrition and appropriate supplementation. Read the rest of this entry »