"Children are ignorant, and what they see is love, how can they be saved?" The one who is thrifty, the parents too. Parents do not know, indulge in their desires, such as sweet and greasy cakes, melons and fruits cold, etc., all of them are with them, and they are allowed to be unrestrained, so that they will cause disease. Although it is known that love is harmful. ”
This means that children have no way to restrain themselves, and they feel that it is delicious even if they are uncomfortable. If parents do not understand, indulge them to eat as they please, and give their children random food without a ruler limit, they will damage the stomach and intestines, and the child will be very easy to get sick.
How to judge a child's spleen deficiency?
1. The hair is yellow and the face lacks luster.
2, easy to tire, easy to bend hunched over, etc. Children who can observe spleen deficiency are very easy to get tired and shout tired at every turn. Children always make it easy to hunch over, such as holding, tired, often lying in bed, not wanting to move, not loving to move, walking and standing. This is all a manifestation of spleen deficiency.
3. Easy to accumulate food, abdominal pain, or diarrhea. Anorexia, do not like to eat, often eat a little to be full, and some children often have abdominal pain and loose stools.
4. Lack of energy, easy to be timid, sleep restless. It is easy to get dizzy and not clear-headed.
5. The tongue is slightly thick and white.
6, the voice is low and weak, the voice is not loud enough. If there is a cough, cough and weakness.
7, constipation, or stool sticky, sticky toilet, not easy to rinse clean.
8. Slightly introverted personality, not fond of talking; Some children are short-tempered.
9. Spleen deficiency for a long time, easy to muscle weakness, fatigue, height, weight development delay, body thinness and other symptoms.
10. Drooling. We often see children drooling. Most parents do not care too much about the child's drooling, but the child often drools, if the teeth are grown out, the drooling is still very serious, then it may be the child's spleen and stomach deficiency.
11, easy to catch a cold, fever, cough, cough for a long time is difficult to heal. Children cough, generally think that it is tracheitis, but there is another reason, that is, the spleen and stomach function is weak. Chinese medicine believes that the spleen is the source of phlegm, the lungs are the organs of sputum storage, it can be seen that the spleen and stomach are the source, and the weakness of the spleen and stomach is the root of cough. If you want to cure your child's cough, you have to start at the root. Clinically, it is common to encounter some children who have coughed for a long time and have been treated for nine times out of ten, but often because of their weak bodies and lack of qi and blood, cough and asthma are prone to recurrence. At this time, it is necessary to adjust the physique and regulate the spleen and stomach.
The most important thing about children's spleen and stomach weakness is to affect growth and development, the nutrients required for children's growth and development need to be spleen and stomach metaplasia, spleen and stomach are weak, then the nutrients required for growth are easily supplied insufficiently, and it will also cause some chronic diseases, such as allergic rhinitis, asthma and so on. Therefore, if the child has a weak spleen and stomach, it should be adjusted as soon as possible!
How to regulate the spleen and stomach in children?
Diet: Grains for spleen and stomach
Children have long-term anorexia due to spleen and stomach deficiency, and mothers can also adjust through diet. In addition to considering various nutrients, children's food should also pay attention to richness and ease of digestion. The diet should be light, rich in protein, vitamins and trace elements and easily digestible foods, and should not be too greasy. Cooking uses soup, porridge, soup, paste, etc., to facilitate the digestion and absorption of the spleen and stomach. Parents should pay attention to food control to avoid oversatiment and spleen and stomach. To give children to eat more grains, such as millet has a spleen and stomach effect, suitable spleen and stomach deficiency heat has a stomach fever children. The layer of viscous "rice oil" on millet porridge is extremely nutritious and is very helpful for restoring gastrointestinal digestive function. In addition, corn has a healthy spleen and dampness, appetizing nootropic function, eating more corn can improve children's gastrointestinal function and help intellectual development; Barley has a healthy spleen and lungs, clear heat and dampness, its protein content is high, and it is easy to digest.
Try to make the food as varied and full of color and flavor to increase the child's appetite. The ingredients selected should be spleen and appetizer, you can eat more hawthorn, yam, taro, pumpkin, coix rice, eat less greasy and raw and cold products.
In addition, it is also necessary to eat more beans or bean products, such as soybeans also have the effect of strengthening the spleen and improving qi, and tofu, soy milk, etc. are quite beneficial to children with weak spleen and stomach; Red beans have a spleen and blood tonic effect, especially suitable for children with spleen deficiency and anemia.
If it is a child with a weak spleen and stomach and cold inside, then it is necessary to develop a good habit of eating hot drinks, do not drink cold water directly, which can effectively avoid the acid-base balance of the intestine being broken. And you should eat more yam, dates, etc. every day, and eat less raw and cold greasy food.
If it is a child with a weak spleen and stomach and internal heat, then you should reduce the daily consumption of some dry, fried, sweet and spicy foods, and eat some kelp, carrots, pumpkins and other foods appropriately. And daily home medication should choose foods with antipyretic and anti-food effects. Parents need to pay attention to the fact that they must not give their children food such as particularly cold food because they see that their children have dry stools, which is not conducive to the child's spleen and stomach.
Children with weak spleen and stomach should choose dietary therapy for symptomatic symptoms
Lotus yam porridge: 30 grams of lotus seeds, 80 grams of yam, 50 grams of japonica rice. Remove the lotus seeds and eat them with yam, japonica rice, and water to cook porridge. This formula is suitable for children with weak spleen and stomach who are emaciated and have no appetite.
Red jujube millet porridge: 10 red dates, 30 grams of millet, first wash the millet, put it in the pot and fry it over low heat until slightly yellow, then add the dates and water to an appropriate amount, boil it on high heat and then change to low heat to boil into porridge to eat.
Conditioning of Traditional Chinese Medicine
In the clinical treatment of pediatric spleen and stomach weakness, there are roughly the following conditions:
(1) Spleen and stomach transport type: anorexia is accompanied by belching, nausea, bloating, and there are many indigestible substances in the stool. Commonly used Cangshu, tangerine peel, citrus shell, chicken inner gold, grain buds, hawthorn, malt and so on.
(2) Spleen and stomach weakness type: mainly emaciated, eating less, accompanied by pale face, lack of energy, viscous stool. It is commonly used in Poria Sativa, Yam, Fried White Technique, Dang Ginseng, Divine Comedy, Curcuma and so on.
(3) Gastric yin deficiency type: sluggish, drinking more, dry stool, hot hands and siblings, easy to be anxious, and not good at falling asleep. Commonly used sand ginseng, wheat dong, dendrobium, prince ginseng, hemp seed, grain buds and so on.
Recommendation: Consult a medical professional.
Health: Massage acupuncture points
(1) Massage the foot three mile point
The foot is located on the outside of the two calves, and the three transverse fingers under the knee are outside the tibia, which is a generalized strong hole. Parents give children a day by day to massage the foot three mile points for 5-10 minutes, which can make the children's digestive system rich, the digestion and reception rate increase, and the yellow muscle lean and improve.
(2) Ridge pinching method
Spinal pinching may be used in infants and young children. The parents stand on the right side of the child, let him lie down, pinch the skin on both sides of the spine with both hands, gradually move up from the tail sacrum, straight to the neck, repeat more than ten times, 2 times a day. Chiropractic has a healthy spleen to help digestion and strengthen the effect, can improve appetite, reduce colds, enhance physical fitness.
(Source: Maternal and Infant Vision)