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I'm looking for lots of help here! Besides taking a daily vitamin, is there anything you know of that the kids should be doing/taking during cold/flu season?
We have a bit of the sniffly-cold here at the house. I've started giving all 3 kids some extra orange juice (a bit watered down for 10 mo). Is that okay? What else would you suggest?
Echinacea for kids- in drops (health store)
Airborne Pixie stix for kids (again, health store)
Emergen-C packs (powder you mix with water or juice-health store)
Avoid sugar.
All these things together really knock out symptoms and help recovery. Also, something really effective for even babies and pregnant moms: Black Elderberry extract. It tastes so yummy, too! Yep, you guessed it- at the health store.
--Meghan
I don't do anything particular for my kids, but am going to look into those things Meghan mentioned- thanks! For myself, I use a Neti Pot. If you google it you can read more about it and see some hilarious videos on YouTube about how to do it. Basically, it's a funky looking little container that you mix up a little salt and warm water. You put it in one nostril and it pours out the other. It clears out sinuses and any allergens that are in there and helps just clear out the nose. My husband and I use it every day and though it seems strange- we like it!
I give my kids Vitamin C chewable tablets.....the same ones I take. Vitamin C is a terrific immune booster and since you pee out what your body can't use, there isn't a risk of overdose. We all take one every morning with breakfast--whether we're sick or not.
We are very RARELY sick, and I guess I'd attribute it to that, being that we have 3 kids that are exposed to germs EVERYWHERE between spending time in the nursery at church, and being around my day care kid all day (whose mom works at a child care center and is also exposed to everything). It seems that my daycare kid is sick pretty often, but mine don't seem to get it.
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