Do you use a natural immune booster with your children?

I was just wondering if you use a natural immune booster or supplements with your children?

DS1 rarely gets sick but DS2 seems to have had about 2 months where he will only be over one virus for two or three days and then he will get sick again. Not really really sick, but runny nose, occaisonal temp, cranky. I shouldn't complain too much as he rarely got sick in his first year of life, but now he is 14 months and I feel so sorry for the little man and 2 months of whingy and crying are starting to do my head in. He is always happy when walking out in the stroller but there is only so much of that I can do.

Anyway, what do you use on your kids, is it worth the money and does it work? I should add that we eat a healthy, varied diet with hardly anything processed or manufactured (but no, I am not willing to go organic).

I buy the sugar-coated vitamins (Gummies) for my kids as, unfortunately, it's the only way they'll take vitamins - and I've tried all the other types. Not surprisingly, they think the vitamins are lollies :rolleyes:. When they're not 100pc well - like now - I give them more than the recommended dosage (Vitamin C mainly) in the hope it will boost their immune system to fight off the lurgies.

ETA: Do they work? Well, put it this way - my boys haven't been snotty this winter until the past week (coincidentally, one week before bub #3 is due!). Don't know if it's the vitamins or not (they eat a reasonable amount of fruit and veg and get plenty of sunshine), but I'm sure the vitamins aren't hurting their chances of staying well. And I generally try to buy the bigger bottles when they're on special.

We use dirt, fresh air and garlic.
They're definitely immune to vampires but I'm not sure about microbes. They're going to catch a few bugs however healthy their immune system is.
My Pump instructor swears by olive leaf extract but she was telling me how awesome it is whilst hunched over her tea, wiping her snotty nose.

I have been dead-against them up until now and I ended up buying some multivitamins from the chemist on the weekend. I am over COMPLETELY over DS2 getting constant colds this long and cold winter (and being sent home from childcare - where he caught the darn thing). I think they are Pentivite (they are shaped into little koalas).

Anyway, I've noticed an improvement. But that could be due to the vicks I've been rubbing on his feet and the onion I've chopped up and left in his room and the heater keeping his room warm....or, possibly the hot honey and lemon drinks I've been force-feeding him along with home-made chicken soup.

Who knows - but I can't see them doing him any harm. We just pee out the excess our body doesn't need.

I use vit c powder and olive leaf extract and lots of garlic. We have been constantly sick the last month though since moving house and being slack.

We use at least 3 cloves of garlic un all our meals. Everything needs garlic lol! But recently we have started DD on a probiotic and a multi, she was sick a couple of months back and it really tanked out her immune system and especially her gut, the antibiotics really changed that for her. We're in the middle of organising a catch up, delayed schedule for her vaccinations, and also recently finished the donated EBM we had, dunno, I feel like they help a bit in lieu of BM.

I use gummies or the herron minis for kids they have echinasea sp? Ive found them to be better than the gummies. They will always get sick bu t how hard & long it hits varies, i believe the echinasea helps. Loads of garlic, onion, oranges in our winter menu as well.

We use Inliven for an immune boost when they're sick. I take it regularly too but I don't give it to them every day, only when they're sick.

Echinacea for kids, will get some olive leaf extract near winter. I take it for my allergys and it really helps. We can also get alot of Chinese med but you need be careful with that stuff. I find 1of the base ingredients actually makes me sick.
Probiotics help for sure too.


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