How to Choose the Best Probiotic Food Supplements for Your Children

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How to Choose the Best Probiotic Food Supplements
for Your Children
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• Best Probiotic Food Supplements For Children
• Keeping your children healthy is always a
  concern for parents. You want to give them the
  best in life and that includes a diet. Yet, it
  isnt always easy with picky eaters. And, with
  buzzwords out there like processed foods, GMOs,
  sugar, and pesticides it might make many new
  parents feel worried and scared about choosing
  the best foods for there little ones. The good
  news is that if you give your child a diet full
  of nutrient-rich whole foods and supplements,
  youre giving them the best start to a healthy
  life. And, its not as difficult as you think to
  choose the right foods and avoid the wrong foods.
    However, there are certain life events that
  require you to take a more serious look at your
  childs health. Are they getting sick more often?
  Do they experience digestion issues like bloating
  or constipation? If so, you might want to look to
  healing this issues through food. And, some of
  the best foods to do so are with fermented foods.
  Clinical trials and studies have shown that these
  foods can offer a host of health benefits for
  healthy and unhealthy adults and children. So, if
  you looking for a way to improve your childs
  health with living food, keep reading to learn
  about how to choose the best probiotic
  supplements for children.

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• First, Make Sure You Talk To Your
  Doctor
• As always, youll want to talk to your doctor
  first when youre making any diet or supplement
  changes for you children. Their bodies function
  differently than adults. They are still growing
  and have slightly different nutritional needs
  than adults. So, what works diet wise and is
  considered healthy for you, might not be exactly
  what your child needs. Could you imagine putting
  a child on a Paleo diet? Or, what about a glass
  of red wine for heart health. Healthy for mom and
  dad doesnt always been healthy for a 4-year old.
    If youre looking for ways to simply keep them
  healthy, talk to your doctor about adding
  probiotic foods or supplements to their diet. If
  its a health concern that makes you wonder if a
  probiotic can help your little use the restroom
  more regularly, then ask if a probiotic is the
  right solution for your child.

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• What Exactly Are Probiotics?
• Over the last few years, probiotics have become
  a buzzword in the health and wellness community.
  Yogurt commercials have used them as keywords
  synonymous with gut health. Weightloss
  supplements have featured them as the key to a
  smaller waistline. While both of these are
  benefits that come from adding best probiotic
  supplements to your diet, these living foods also
  offer a host of other benefits.   To put it
  simply probiotics are foods that contain the
  living organisms and healthy bacteria that are
  normally found in our bodies. There are trillions
  of these bacteria living in our gut and they
  impact everything from immunity to our skin and
  yes our waste functions. When we eat probiotics
  we are giving our reintroducing these types of
  healthy bacteria back into our bodies.

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• How Probiotics Can Benefit Your Kids
• Generally speaking, probiotics are safe for both
  adults and children. Probiotics help to replenish
  the good bacteria in your gut. If your child is
  experiencing constipation a probiotics for
  constipation could be useful to help improve
  their guts waste function. If your child takes
  an antibiotic, probiotics can help with the side
  effects. While antibiotics can fight infections,
  they can also kill of the healthy bacteria in the
  gut. Afterwards, some children experience stomach
  pain, constipation, or diarrhoea. A Probiotics
  for Constipation can help your child by
  reintroducing healthy bacteria back into their
  bodies to build up their immune systems and keep
  stomach pain at bay. Some research suggests that
  taking probiotics daily can both improve general
  health and prevent certain diseases. A study
  published in Nutrients by a Taiwanese research
  team in 2018 showed that children who were given
  probiotics that contained the Lactobacillus
  bacteria strand for 3 months experienced
  lower asthma severity. Other clinical trials have
  shown that probiotics can help infants and
  children heal faster from diarrhoea. 

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• What Age Should They Start?
• All around the world babies and children are
  given probiotics. Theyre living foods that have
  been around for thousands of years. In Japan
  babies are given miso soup, a light broth made
  from fermented soybeans. In Russia, kefir is a
  popular fermented milk drink that children and
  adults have been drinking for centuries. And,
  fermented vegetables like sauerkraut and kimchi
  have been served around dinner tables for the
  whole family to enjoy throughout the world. So,
  generally speaking probiotics are safe for
  children as young as 4 months old.   If you want
  to ensure that your child is healthy, you can
  begin introducing probiotics to their diet when
  your child is an infant. Just be sure to talk to
  your health care professional beforehand to
  ensure that your child has a healthy immune
  system before hand.   There is evidence to
  suggest that adding probiotics to childrens diet
  at infancy can help curb childrens allergy risk
  for foods like peanuts, eczema, and asthma. While
  more research needs to be done to understand
  exactly why this is, some believe that it is
  probiotics ability to introduce healthy microbes
  to the gut that promotes healthy immune function.
   

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• How Bacteria Improves Your Childs Health
• When it comes to choosing the best probiotic
  supplement for your kids, the keyword is
  natural. Youll want to choose a supplement
  that is as close to natural living food as
  possible. If youre not in the kitchen fermenting
  yogurt, milk, or cabbage yourself, youll want to
  make sure that you look for foods in your grocery
  isle that contain living cultures. These labels
  ensure that the probiotics contain the
  gut-healthy bacteria that youre looking for to
  improve your childs health. Some of
  these healthy bacteria include  
• Lactobacillus acidophilus This bacteria has been
  shown to reduce abdominal strain in children
  suffering from inflammatory bowel disease and to
  treated childhood diahrrea.
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• Lactobacillus rhamnosus This strand is linked to
  supporting immune health. In particular some
  studies suggest that children who take this
  antibiotic from infancy to childhood could
  prevent immune-mediated disease as they become
  older.
• Bifidobacterium animalis This strand has been
  shown to promote regularity.
• Bifidobacterium infantis This bacteria might be
  especially beneficial to mothers who breastfeed.
  It has been linked to helping infants digest
  their breast milk.
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• What To Look For and Avoid
• Easy to Chew or Drink Probiotics are not
  medicine and therefore shouldnt taste or look
  like one. But, as many parents might know
  supplements like multi-vitamins and probiotics
  can come in chewable forms that are unappealing
  to your little one. One of the nice things about
  probiotics is that they can be an easy-to-drink
  milk or yogurt beverage that your child will
  enjoy. If theyre a chewable, double check the
  age to ensure that your child wont choke. Also,
  be sure to choose a child-friendly flavor that
  you know your child will like.
• Allergies While some studies suggest that
  probiotics can help with allergies, you should
  still read the label carefully if your child has
  allergies. Be sure that the probiotic is allergen
  safe and not processed in a facility where it
  could be contaminated with nuts or gluten. If
  youre vegan know that there are plenty of
  dairy-free options out there. There are yogurts
  and milks made with coconut that are fermented
  with the same healthy bacteria, but dont come
  from animals.
• Avoid Sugar and Artificial Colors Some
  probiotics have added sugars in them to make the
  taste appealing to kids. Read the label carefully
  to see how much added sugar is in the drink. You
  want your child to be healthy and supplements
  laced in sugar arent the healthiest option.
  Also, if you notice that a drink is a pretty pink
  or those chewables come in fun colors red the
  labels to see what was used for the dyes. Colors
  that come with numbers are chemical ingredients
  that were added for vibrant colors.
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• Takeaways
• All in all, keeping your child healthy with
  whole-foods is easy. A balanced diet full of
  fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and probiotics
  is as simply as taking a trip down your grocery
  isle. Just like getting adequate rest or
  exercising regularly can improve your health,
  making sure that you have a well-balanced diet
  with whole foods and supplements can offer a host
  of health benefits.   Today, science demonstrates
  how ancient foods like kefir, yogurt, and kimchi
  offer a host of health benefits for both you and
  your child. If youre looking for add these foods
  to your diet in a supplement form, youll want to
  look for a product that is as close to nature as
  possible. Read the label carefully to be sure
  that youre not adding too many sugars or
  chemical dyes and additives to your childs diet.
  Look for living strands and active bacteria
  that will benefit your little ones gut health.
  And, always talk to your health care professional
  first about making a change to your familys diet
  or supplements.

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