Jakarta –
Maintain the digestive tract and body endurance important children during this time of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a healthy diet, you can take care of your little one’s digestive tract.
According to the Chairman of the PB of the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI), dr. Daeng M Faqih, SH, MH, gastrointestinal problems in children can also be a co-morbid COVID-19. One of them is a diarrheal disease found in Indonesian children.
“In Indonesia, comorbids or causes are easy to contract and deterioration in children is unique compared to other countries, for example pneumonia, dengue fever, nutritional disorders and diarrhea,” said Daeng. press conference Caring for Child Nutrition in Pandemic Period with Morinaga Chil Go, via Zoom, Thursday (25/3/21).
The strategy to increase the child’s immune system and prevent these diseases is actually easy, Mother. We only need to choose healthy foods to maintain the digestive tract.
“We really have to choose healthy foods so that children don’t get diarrhea easily and get good nutrition. If this is encouraged by good children’s immunity, then they are not easily infected, if they are infected their bodies can fight,” said Daeng.
Research shows that the immune system is closely related to the digestive tract. Gastrointestinal tract good can help the absorption of nutrients in the body properly too.
On this occasion, the Head of Medical KALBE Nutritionals, dr. Muliaman Mansyur said that the gastrointestinal tract is the brain of both humans. The digestive tract is important because of its enormous size and function. About 70 percent of the body’s resistance is in the digestive tract.
The length of the digestive tract can be up to seven meters long, Bunda. In addition, there are also a lot of nerves in the digestive tract.
“The digestive tract greatly determines the health of a child. When the child eats, of course the food and drink that is consumed enters the digestive tract. If it is not good, the condition is absorption. nutrition so no good. The health of the digestive tract is influenced by microflora as well as macronutrients and micronutrients, “said Muliaman.
Then how do you maintain a healthy digestive tract by choosing healthy foods? Please read the next page.
See also the doctor’s explanation about the nutrition of children who have difficulty eating, in the following video:
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