Folic acid is B9 vitamin which is necessary for development and formation of blood and immune systems of an organism. It is most important for children when the organism actively grows during pre-natal development and in the early childhood.
Characteristic of folic acid
Acid is an obligatory component for adjustment of fat and carbohydrate exchange and also blood formation of an organism. Vitamin supports activity and synthesizes new cages. For children folic acid is necessary to avoid an anemia — deficiency of red blood cells. If in an organism there is a lack of B9 vitamin, the marrow which is responsible for cell fission begins to suffer.
On the first weeks of pre-natal development at the shortage of folic acid, in an organism of the child there can be pathological processes in the central nervous system, such as brain underdevelopment, brain hernias, etc. Folic acid is necessary for development of a placenta which provides a germ with oxygen and nutrients. After the birth of the child there is an intensive growth of an organism. Within the first year of life the kid gains weight three times more, than at the birth. All its bodies and systems grow. Such active growth requires considerable amount of folic acid.
Use of folic acid
For children recommend intake of folic acid at megaloblastny and alimentary makrotsitarny anemia. Medicine is appointed at therapy of a syndrome to a spr when function of absorption of food in intestines is broken. As the indication for intake of folic acid to children also serves decrease in indicators of leukocytes in blood after the ionizing radiation, X-ray therapy and intake of medicines. The dosage of vitamin is defined by the attending physician depending on age of the child and disease severity. The recommended daily dose of folic acid to kids up to 6 months makes 25 mkg, from 6 months to 1 year — 35 mkg, 1 — 3 years — 50 mkg, from 3 to 6 years — 75 mkg, from 6 to 1 years — 100 mkg, 10 — 14 years — 150 mkg and from 14 years — 200 mkg. It is necessary to remember that the children's organism receives some part of folic acid together with food. Vitamin contains in breast milk of mother, cereals, nuts, bananas, apricots, green vegetables, buckwheat and oat grain and also in meat, dairy products, a salmon and tuna. Heat treatment of products destroys folic acid. If the child has a normal balanced food and intestinal microflora is in an order, the organism independently produces acid and accumulates it in a liver. In other cases it is necessary to accept folic acid separately or as a part of vitamin and mineral complexes.