Seven Tips to Improve your Baby's Immune System

A new report has been released detailing that the main complaint of patients with coronavirus are suffering from diarrhea and other digestive distress. Those patients who suffered from digestive symptoms took a longer time to experience the onset and didn’t suspect having Covid-19 due to the lack of respiratory problems. Based on these findings, boosting your family’s immunity is more important now than ever.

Our immune systems are what help prevent and fight disease. Babies have pristine immune systems because they are brand new. Building up the bacteria that is colonized in their GI tract will help keep your little one healthy and arm them with the ability to fight off nasty bugs.

So how do you add to their collection of gut flora?

1) Administer a daily probiotic

Probiotics are tasked with the important job of keeping your body in a healthy state of balance. Supplementing you and your little one’s diet with good bacteria either from probiotic rich foods or a daily supplement, like Colic Calm Probiotic, will help keep you healthy.

Good bacteria controls immune function, inflammation, helps your body digest food, supports the cells that line your gut to prevent bad bacteria from entering your blood, creates vitamins and will aid in controlling the bad bacteria from making you sick.

2) Get plenty of fresh air and sunshine

With restrictions being put into place to limit the social interaction we have. Now is a great time to take advantage of getting outdoors safely. Getting fresh air and sunshine for your baby is a great way to get Vitamin D. Vitamin D is a critical nutrient for bone-building and immune-boosting, and it mainly comes from exposure to the sun.

Fresh air also will help clear out lungs and boost everyone mood. It also will limit exposure to other people’s germs.

3) Keep your baby warm

When your little one’s temperature fluctuates, and they are cold it can stress their immune system out. When your immune system is in a state of stress, you’re more susceptible to illness.

Since young infants are not able to easily regulate their temperature, make sure that you’re dressing them appropriately and swaddling them to keep them warm.

4) Stay hydrated

When faced with sickness, one of the biggest concerns of parents is how to keep your baby hydrated. Dehydration can quickly take ahold of an infant and can lead to potentially complications. Help prevent these concerns by offering more small, frequent sips of fluid (breastmilk, formula, water or infant rehydration like Pedialyte).

5) Practice good hand-washing

You keep hearing it, but we’ll echo it again, practice good hand-washing techniques. Was your baby just crawling around in the ground? Wash their hands. Practicing good hygiene from day 1 will reduce your baby’s and family’s odds of getting sick.

6) Make sure your baby is getting enough sleep

Sleep is imperative to allowing the body to rest and restore. It’s even more important in infants and children because this is where their body is doing a lot of growth and development. Babies who lack sound sleep are crankier and more prone to infection. The University College of London released a study that found children who have a regular bedtime and sleep routine slept more soundly.

7) Boost their intake of essential fatty acids

Essential fatty acids are a key component of helping white blood cells, or the cells that fight infection, function. The Journal of Immunology did a study that discovered that children with a history of respiratory infections get better more quickly when their essential fatty acid intake is higher.

If you’re breast feeding, up your intake of healthy fat foods like salmon, avocados and walnuts. If you’re formula feeding, look for a formula that is rich in Omega 3 & 6.

Read more about how Colic Calm Probiotic can help your little one here.