You must have often heard that whenever we feel weakness, we ask the doctor to write a tonic. The child’s stomach gets spoiled again and again or he/she gets very quickly ill or his/her digestive capacity is weak, even then we ask the doctor to write a tonic, but have you ever thought what is this tonic?
Pediatrician doctor Rachna has told through a post on her Instagram what tonics are and when they should be given or under what circumstances there is no benefit from taking tonic. So let’s know what happens to the tonic given to children.
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Does tonic increase appetite
Often, whenever mothers take their child to the doctor, the doctor says that her child does not feel hungry, his/her immunity is very weak, you write a tonic for him/her. Can tonic really increase appetite and immunity can become stronger?
What is tonic
Tonic is not a single medicine, but it is a mixture of many vitamins, minerals and hunger enhancing elements called a health builder and is sold in the name of tonic. In easy language, tonic is not a one medicine but it is a mixture of many elements.
How is treatment
When the child shows signs of a particular vitamin or iron deficiency, the doctors treat that nutrient deficiency and tonic is not given for it. That is to say that if there is a deficiency of iron in the child, he/she will be given iron supplements and not tonic process.
Does drinking tonic increase appetite
We feel that tonic increases the child’s appetite and strengthens his/her immunity, while it is not really so. When the child’s appetite decreases due to illness, then after treating that disease, his/her hunger can become normal. In this situation, tonic can be given to increase appetite, but when there is no disease, then there is no benefit from taking tonic as increasing hunger and there is no work of health builders here.
Tonic is not of use
In this way, the doctor Rachna says that in such a situation there is no improvement in health from the tonic and no objective is fulfilled. If you want to give a tonic to your child, then definitely ask the doctor.
