Best multivitamin to give system a boost after a few bouts of illness?

[BudgetFoodie]

We eat a healthy diet with lots of fruit and veg but have all had a nightmare three months of coughs colds and tunny upsets!
Can anyone recommend something that isn't going to bankrupt me, for older teens and adults.

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Is multivitamin the right approach ?

What is I think proven to work

Fresh air - including opening windows
Sunshine / daylight
Exercise
Give body time to recover
Healthy well balanced diet
Home hygiene - wash hands before eating sort of thing

Sambucol Extra Defence Black Elderberry Liquid

I don’t think a general multivitamin is your answer as per the post above.

Focus on a varied balanced diet with lots of different fruits/veggies. Then I’d focus in gut health so probiotics and prebiotics (you can get these from food). Kefir, kimchi, kombucha.

Must be good. My vet even recommended that for my elderly dog to up her immune system.

You can't "boost" your immune system, and an over-active immune system is what causes autoimmune conditions and allergies, the body attacking itself and overreacting to pollen and dust and such.

If you feel your diet may be lacking then a general multivitamin and minerals is a good precaution. Generic is fine. It either has the substance in or not, a £10 pill is the same medically as a 1p pill in terms of you getting that vitamin C, like with generic paracetamol or brand name.

The NHS recommends every supplements with vitamin D at the very least since you can't get enough from sun in the winter.

Diet and exercise already good.
Just need a bit extra

The best thing would be to avoid catching anything else.

Covid is really good at dysregulating your immune system, and the effect can last months/years. Other pathogens do that as well, but not as readily nor usually for as long.

You would all benefit from a period in which your immune system recuperates without having to deal with anything else.

So - keep away from people with symptoms, reduce the frequency and duration you are indoors with people who you don't know, wear a mask when you have to be indoors with other people, lobby for better ventilation/filtration in schools and workplaces.

If you have a varied diet you don't need vitamins, except perhaps vitamin d over the winter. If you want a multivitamin just use the cheapest generic one, it either has vitamins in or it doesn't, branding doesn't give any magical properties.

Vitamin D is definitely important. Especially this time of year. The Better You sprays are good

Everyone in the UK is advised to take a Vitamin D supplement during the winter months anyway. A basic supermarket multivitamin with a separate 1,000ug vitamin d taken every day will boost you up enough to see you through to Spring. Usually it takes 2-3 months before you see an improvement unless you were really low, so perservere.

EDIT - I use the Better You sprays for Vit D, B12 and Iron as well as a chewable kids multivitamin and see a huge difference after a fortnight, but I have a limited diet with no fresh fruit.

Ashwagangha tablets

You can’t supplement unless you have a deficiency. It takes time to recover from illness esp if you’ve had recurrent infections.