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Tips for Getting Balanced Nutrition in a Pandemic Period, Can Boost Your Immune

JAKARTA, iNews.id – During the pandemic Covid-19 choose healthy food to strengthen body immunity be important. The immune system is a mechanism in the human body, which functions to guard against attacks from various foreign objects or pathogens.

This foreign material can be in the form of pollution, bacteria or viruses. If your immune system is compromised, you will get sick easily. For that the immune system must be strong in order to avoid various diseases.

A clinical nutrition specialist from Siloam Hospitals Heart Diagram, Christin SS LumbanTobing said, maintaining the body’s immune stability can be fulfilled through regular nutritional intake and vaccination. Vaccination aims to provide antigens into the body as a stimulus so that the body is stimulated to secrete antibodies or respond to vaccines given by the body.

“So during a pandemic like this, what needs to be maintained and needs to be considered is the immune system,” said Dr. Christin SS LumbanTobing, through virtual education, Thursday (27/05/2021)

For this reason, he continued, each antigen has its own specific antibody, for example in Influenza which has its own antibody.

Continuing the education entitled “Caring for Elderly Patients with Nutrition Optimal During the Covid-19 Pandemic”, Dr. Christin explained, giving vaccines will protect people and the community around them, because not everyone can receive and get vaccines.

Then what about people who can’t get the vaccine, can that person be immune to the virus?

Answering a question from one of the participants in the webinar, Dr. Christin explained, there will be the term group immunity. That is, the more people around them who receive the vaccine, the stronger the group’s immunity will be. As a result, the number of pathogens that will spread is decreasing.

Editor: Vien Dimyati

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