Remember eating Suckcee, whenever we had fever during childhood? Suckcee is Vitamin C. We all knew it plays a role in viral infections. Let me tell you, it has much more importance than only preventing viral infections. Vitamin C is is important for every child. It helps your child in various ways.
Let us see why this vitamin is important for your child.
Skin Health
This vitamin keeps the skin and gums healthy. It minimizes bruising from falls and scrapes. That is why for bleeding gums in kids, Vitamin C is given.
Prevents cold
Vitamin C influences how long your child’s cold lasts for and can help boost their immunity.
Supports Iron Absorption
Vitamin C helps with Iron absorption in the body. 65% children in India have low Iron, so giving Vitamin C helps reduce anaemia or low haemoglobin. This is a big role of Vitamin C which is unknown to most parents
Antioxidant
This vitamin helps prevent damage to your child’s healthy body cells by acting as an antioxidant. Oxidants are produced as wear and tear in body & are harmful in long term.
Bone growth
Healthy growth & development of your child’s bones and teeth is super important during the formative years, Vitamin C helps in that too.
Nervous System Health
Every task your child does is made possible by the nervous system, & Vitamin C maintains Nerve cells
As far as possible children should be given natural sources of Vitamins. Your child’s growing body can’t produce vitamin C on its own. So as a parent, you have to ensure that your child eats a wide variety of colorful fruits and vegetables every day.
Here are some sources of vitamin C that your child can get naturally.
- Citrus (oranges, kiwi, lemon, grapefruit) – kids love them
- Bell peppers
- Strawberries - yummy
- Tomatoes – in salads or added to juice are tasty
- Cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower)
- White potatoes
Still children can be deficient in Vitamins. Deficiency of Vitamin C can cause scurvy. Kids with scurvy may have the following symptoms.
- Small brown spots on the skin
- Roughening of the skin
- Thickening of the gums
- Easy bruising, slow healing of wounds
- They also may have a feeling of weakness or discomfort
As we saw, Vitamin C is very important for your child. This vitamin helps your child’s health in various ways, and also helps your child grow up properly. Apart from a balanced diet, your child might require Vitamin C supplements to meet the daily requirements.
Chubears, multivitamin gummy is the perfect product to meet this requirement. Created by doctors, this vitamin has all the vitamins and minerals needed by your child including Vitamin C.