The Measles Prevention recommends that parents should make sure children drink enough water and supplement adequately vitamin A.
The mother noted scientific information useful preventing measles - currently outbreaks caused much anxiety for parents today:
"Let children drink enough water and vitamins A full complement "
" All children in developing countries are diagnosed measles needing 2 doses of vitamin A supplementation, 24 hours apart. This treatment aims to restore low levels of vitamin A during measles, even with well nourished children, to help redundant eye damage and blindness. Vitamin A supplementation has been shown to reduce by 50% the number of deaths from measles." Measles prevention recommendation was that parents should let children drink enough water and adequate vitamin A supplementation.
The mother noted that the babies suffering from measles can be lead to dry eye complications , the risk of affecting the eyes such as amblyopia, eye swelling, conjunctival swelling red . Lack of vitamin A can cause loss of vision , eye diseases such as dry eye , night blindness , ....
Vitamin A supplementation method which is simple, easily absorbed into the body in a natural way is that children can use products from Gac like Gac powder , Gac oil .
Gac contains beta carotene known as provitamin A , modified after they have similar biological activity of vitamin A , but it is very safe to use . Just 6mcg ( micrograms ) of beta carotene is converted into vitamin A and 1mcg equivalent to 3.3 international units ( IU).
Baby will enjoy the fried noodles Gac
Vitamin A is only found in foods of animal origin such as animal liver , fish liver oil , eggs , milk ... and the beta carotene derives from plants , all dark green vegetables and tubers red fruits , yellow vegetables such as carrots , papaya , pumpkin , oranges , bananas ... and especially Gac contains quite high levels of beta carotene.
Vitamin A and beta carotene have many important functions in the body parts, the first is the role of vitamin A for eyesight . Vitamin A deficiency leads to lack rodopsin of retinal pigment, reduces adaptation to darkness causes night blindness, which is the first signs of vitamin A deficiency
Lack of vitamin A leads to dry eyes , corneal ulcers cause blindness . Lack of vitamin A causes dry and shrink the sebaceous glands and sweat glands , increased thickening of the hair follicles , as well often prickly skin surface , reducing the growth rate , reducing the body's resistance to disease and increase mortality rate in children .
In addition, vitamin A and beta carotene was particularly effective prevention of cancer due to antioxidant properties , especially beta carotene along with vitamin E , vitamin C have the ability to protect and slow down the process of aging and protect us from some diseases called "degeneration" such as cancer , cardiovascular disease , brain degeneration ...
The fat and juicy taste characteristic of Gac help babies appetite, stimulate the taste buds
Because vitamin A have so many functions, vitamin A supplementation in the daily diet is essential. However, because vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin and it is stored in the liver for a long time, It can cause botulism if prolongedly used. The acute poisoning expression due to vitamin A overdose are increased intracranial pressure, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, bulging fontanelle in the nursing infant, the occipital headaches in adults with chronic overdose : express smoldering skin disorders: desquamation, dryness, itching, hair loss, joint pain, ligament ossification, cartilage early closing joint venture, neurological disorders ( irritability fatigue ), liver disease can lead to cirrhosis. Beta carotene (found in Gac fruit ) is completely non-toxic, it just transforms depending on the needs of vitamin A in the body . If you use too much beta carotene only cause yellow skin
Therefore, It is essential to use products from Gac rarely cause vitamin A toxicity, it just cause jaundice, if stop taking some time this symptom goes away
A simple precautions, inexpensive measles prevention of eye disease is using products from Gac like Gac powder , Gac oil . Even today, the mother cook steamed rice, soup from Gac, processed foods like shrimp sauteed with Gac, Gac fried ribs , Gac beef.