compensation for the “sun” vitamin when the temperature rises
Family and community medicine consultant, Dr. Muhammad Bakr Salih Qandiyah, called on the community members to pay attention to food sources that contain vitamin D, with the high temperature of the atmosphere and the inability to be exposed to specific sunlight.
He said that the “sunshine” vitamin is important because it performs many vital tasks within the body and helps in facing many diseases, especially in children, as vitamin D is one of the fat-soluble vitamins, and it is also called the sun vitamin because the body manufactures it when the skin is exposed to sunlight. It has several functions in the body, including bone health and preventing fragility, because it helps in the absorption of calcium.
And “Kandeh” stressed that vitamin D enhances immunity and contributes to reducing inflammation, which helps prevent viral and bacterial infectious diseases, especially influenza and colds, and also contributes to relieving symptoms of pneumonia and asthma, and it also helps prevent the development of autoimmune diseases, which are the diseases in which they attack. The body''s immune cells, and this includes diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, autoimmune thyroid diseases such as Graves'' disease, multiple sclerosis, and type 1 diabetes.
He continued: This vitamin is available in varying amounts in some food sources available in the market, such as fatty fish such as tuna, sardines, mackerel, and herring. Also, oysters and caviar of all kinds have significant amounts of the vitamin, as well as milk, especially full-fat, eggs, ricotta cheese, and vegetable sources. Fortified cereals are among the most vitamin-rich plant foods that are often eaten with milk. It is advised to eat types that have less sugar and mushrooms (mushrooms), especially those that have been dried under the sun. There are also foods fortified with vitamin D such as milk and its derivatives, some types of orange juice and some Breakfast cereals, as well as nutritional supplements.
Regarding the importance of the benefits of vitamin D for children, “Kandeh” concluded by saying: Vitamin D helps to absorb essential minerals that build bones, such as calcium and phosphate, and in this way it protects the body from known bone diseases that affect children in the early stage of development such as osteomalacia or rickets, as well as Osteoporosis, and vitamin D protects children from curvature of the spine, helps them grow strong, solid bones, and promotes the growth of teeth for children, especially in the first teething stage, and also helps them in the stage of learning to walk, and protects them from exposure to curvature of the legs, and strengthens their immunity against diseases It stimulates the immune system and protects them from developing type 1 diabetes.
