Some factors of affecting the incidence of cold diseases in children (10–18 years old) living in the Murmansk region

To identify factors influencing the incidence children of respiratory diseases, a study was conducted on the health of schoolchildren aged 10–18 years living in the Murmansk region. A trend has been established that children who take any vitamin and mineral supplements in their food are recover faster. This suggests that the available food for schoolchildren is unbalanced in its main components and the inclusion of local products in a child’s diet is not enough to fully replenish all the necessary nutrients in the growing body of adolescents. The use of various vitamin and mineral supplements in food, including vitamin D3 and fish oil, allows you to at least partially compensate for the lack of essential elements.