Vitamin A to increase endurance and Eye Health
Does Vitamin A is it?
Vitamin A is one of the micronutrients needed by the body that is useful to increase body resistance (immunity) and eye health.
Vitamin A deficiency
● Lack of Vitamin A (VAD) in children who are in evacuation areas to make them vulnerable to various infections defect, so easily hurt.
● Children who suffer from lack of vitamin A, when stricken with measles, diarrhea or other infectious diseases, the disease will worsen and can lead to death. The infection will inhibit the body's ability to absorb nutrients and at the same time will erode the savings run out of vitamin A in the body.
● Lack of vitamin A for long periods of time will also be husband's dance interference with the eye, and if the child does not immediately get the vitamin A will result in blindness.
● Babies who are not breastfed have a higher risk to suffer from VAD, because milk is a source of vitamin A is good.
How to Prevent KVA
Vitamin A can be obtained from milk or foods of animal origin (milk, chicken meat, liver, eggs) or from green vegetables red and yellow fruits (mango, papaya)
In emergency situations, where natural food sources become very limited, vitamin A capsule supplementation is very important to increase endurance to disease.
How to Get Vitamin A Capsules
Vitamin A high dose of either blue or red, do not be traded and given away for free in health center
Dose Vitamin A capsules for Infants and Children
As prevention efforts in the disaster area, one capsule of vitamin A blue with a dose of 100,000 IU given to all infants aged 6-11 months, vitamin A red capsule with a dose of 200,000 IU for all children aged 12-59 months, and children ages 5-12 years.
High-dose vitamin A capsule safely given with a minimum distance a month. However, when the child turns out to consume vitamin A capsules at intervals of less than one month, usually will not happen poisoning in children. If a child is found to consume more than one capsule within a period of one month, immediately report to health care workers.
Dose Vitamin A capsules to Mother post partum
Mother during childbirth need to get two red capsules of vitamin A dose of 200,000 IU. Giving the first capsule is given immediately after birth, and a second capsule with an interval of at least 24 hours, no more than 6 weeks after delivery.
Vitamin A capsules should not be given to pregnant women because the dose is too high for the fetus.
