Ginger is famous for its useful properties. But how and when to give it to children? Read about it in the article.
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- Nowadays, ginger for many has become an integral part of the diet, since the root of this miracle plant has indisputable and numerous useful properties.
- Initially, it was used as a spice and based on it, various drinks (kvass, sbits, ginger beer), marinades and sauces, jams and candied, were used as ingredients to baked products and so on.
- In addition to its specific spicy taste, ginger is known and its unique healing properties.
Useful ginger properties for children
The special usefulness of ginger is celebrated in treatment:
- diseases of the joints
- atherosclerosis
- violations of fat and cholesterol exchange
- ulcery disease stomach
- strengthening and improving vessels
- cold illness
- as a means of strengthening immunity
Given all the beneficial properties of ginger, as well as its saturation of vitamins, amino acids and essential oils, the question arises, and whether it is possible to give this product to children, because every parent knows how important the child is to strengthen immunity, to escape from inevitable colds and other children's troubles.
Ginger can be children since 3 years old.
The answer to this question can be positive. Yes, it is worth treating your child with ginger, but only if he is already greater than 3 years old.
Important: Little children with a gentle and not yet formed digestive system giving ginger should not.
Especially good to use ginger as a natural assistant if a child has a cold illness. With its help, the children's body will be easier to cope with pathogenic viruses, bacteria and microbes, fight inflammation.
Ginger will also have a slight soothing and catholic effect on the ill-friendly child. And if you give the ginger to a child regularly (in different kinds), then his immunity will definitely become stronger, which will manifest itself in the sustainability of the body before disease and early recovery.
IMPORTANT: And yet, parents should know that no matter how useful to the child's selected for a child, it will not be a panacea of \u200b\u200bdisease. Many products, especially plant origin, have useful and healing properties, but concentrate on one of them is hardly worth it. It is necessary to approach the immunity and hardening of the child. Complex - good healthier food, active walks in the fresh air, compliance with the bottom mode, a positive family atmosphere - all these are the most important factors of children's health.
Video: Ginger useful properties and contraindications
Recipes with ginger to enhance immunity
- Nevertheless, thinking about how to organize a healthy nutrition to a child, you can advise to include various dishes with ginger in it as an ingredient.
- For example, you can add ginger to any dishes as seasonings. Judging by the reviews, the children calmly react to his taste, it even likes to many. Ginger can be rubbed and crushed by itself using fresh rhizomes for this.
- You can purchase a ready-made seasoning from ginger powder. Such powder has a steady taste and a torment.
- You can also prepare a baby lemonade with ginger.
To increase the immunity, the child can give ginger lemonade.
RECIPE: Ginger lemonade for children
It is necessary: \u200b\u200bone ginger root, floor-lemon juice, a glass of honey, 2 liters of water.
- boil water
- ginger rubbing on the grater
- in boiling water throw grated ginger and boil on low fire 10 minutes,
- when water cool down a little, you need to add lemon juice and honey into it.
You can give a child such a lemonade 2 times a day at 100 - 200 ml.
Alternatively, orange juice can be additionally added to the drink.
Important: When cleaning ginger from the peel, it is advisable to do it, removing as a smaller layer as possible, since it is under the leather that the largest number of beneficial properties of the plant concentrates.
Tea with ginger: recipe
Ginger tea is generally useful for child health.
Ginger tea is suitable for both adults and children.
RECIPE: Ginger tea.
It is necessary: \u200b\u200bgrated the root of ginger, lemon and honey.
- the portion of the grated ginger is flooded with boiling water, it is a little insisted under the lid,
- after that, a little honey (to taste) and lemon are added to it,
- after adding lemon and honey, this tea is recommended for a few more minutes.
- At will, you can add some cinnamon to finished ginger tea to activate taste and all useful properties.
Important: giving a child such drinks or tea, parents still need to pay attention to the reaction of the child's body. After all, honey, and citrus fruits can cause allergies from him. True, it is noted that the ginger itself allergic reactions itself practically does not cause.
Ginger for a child with honey, lemon: cough recipes
- The gingerbell drink with honey and lemon can also be given a healthy child, and when he fell ill orvi, the flu or he has a cold.
- The only warning here is not to get involved in such a drink, if the child has a temperature, because it is not known how a small body struggling with the disease behaves, if it becomes so biologically active drink, which is based on ginger, honey and lemon.
- But when passing in the throat, cold and the other first manifestations of the cold, ginger tea for a child is the most. Prepare such tea will not be difficult.
Ginger tea will facilitate the kashel child.
RECIPE: Anti-inflammable tea with ginger.
Need: grated ginger, honey, lemon.
- grasp a little ginger and put it in a cup,
- pour hot water by adding honey and lemon, as for ordinary tea - a teaspoon of honey and a lone of lemon on a cup.
Drinking such tea the child can several times during the day. You need to drink in warmth (not hot!)
If the child coughes, he can give milk with ginger.
Also instead of water you can use warm milk. Only in the milk should not put lemon, only ginger and honey. Such a means is good when coughing.
To facilitate coughing and runny nose, subject to the lack of temperature in a child, make inhalation with ginger.
Ginger Children: Komarovsky
- Undoubted authority in the enlightenment of parents by the rules for creating comprehensive conditions of a healthy lifestyle for children Dr. Komarovsky always advocates the child to grow and develop on the basis of its natural needs.
- This means that the child should move a lot, to be active, overcome difficulties simply, not concentrating on them. He must eat when it is hungry and necessarily natural, cooked home food.
- Parents should also be treated with the most simple way, producing immunity in a child, and not stuffing the pills and medicines in the slightest occasion. One of these simple ways can be ginger tea with honey and lemon.