Grandma gave a 10-month-old baby a gua sha that caused his face to fester, and the doctor reminded gua sha to be cautious

Jimu news reporter Cao Yang Liu Xun

Correspondent Hu Bingxun, Bo Yunna, Gao Chenchen

Gua Sha believes that everyone knows that there are many Chinese medicine practitioners who will use Gua Sha as a method to meet the requirements of health care. But not everyone is suitable for gua sha, recently "grandma to 10 months old baby gua sha caused its facial ulceration" topic has aroused heated discussion, can babies gua sha? The reporter interviewed relevant experts, and experts reminded that babies for several months must not be gua sha. Gua Sha for children is best not less than seven or eight years old, Gua Sha is not suitable for everyone, the treatment method needs to vary from person to person, and the body is not suitable for timely medical treatment.

Grandma used home remedies to scrape the baby, causing his face to fester

According to media reports, after the 10-month-old baby girl in Changsha, Hunan Province, repeatedly coughed, sought medical treatment and took cough and asthma medicine and did not get better, the grandmother was distressed by her granddaughter, so she used a silver ring and egg whites to cure the child's forehead area with gua sha, causing the baby's face to fester.

The child's mother said: "The baby lived in the hospital for 9 days and then returned to his hometown with a high fever, and then he did not retreat, repeatedly burned, and then my mother said scraping off the sha, using the method of soil, thinking that there may be cold in the body, so I used a silver ring and egg whites to scrape sha together, saying that the silver ring turned black is cold, and then it was scraped heavily, and the skin was broken." "At present, the baby is still under observation and treatment in the hospital.

Because the elderly use the so-called folk remedies to treat the baby, not only did not achieve the desired effect, but made the child suffer more. "Baby skin is delicate and weak, improper force is easy to cause skin damage, if not handled properly after damage, it will cause local infection of the skin, the most serious is the bacteria running into the blood to cause sepsis." Moreover, the primary disease of the baby has not been treated in time, which has delayed the disease. Liu Ying, attending physician of the Pediatric Department of Wuhan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, said.

Song Han, attending physician of the Department of Dermatology of Wuhan Red Cross Hospital, introduced that the silver ring gua sha used by grandma in the case has been a very strong physical stimulus, and infants and young children must be intolerable, coupled with the egg white of raw eggs, it may also carry a variety of bacteria, under the stimulation of external forces, skin damage, which will lead to invasive infection.

Babies cannot gua sha, and gua sha is not suitable for everyone

Can babies of several months be gua sha? Qin Li, a pediatrician at Wuhan Red Cross Hospital, said babies cannot gua sha. It is best not to give a child a gua sha under the age of seven or eight, because "from the perspective of Chinese medicine, the child is a pure yang body, and it is not appropriate to emit too much." There are many kinds of tools for scraping sha, including porcelain (spoon handle), horn (horn comb), stone, etc., which will stimulate the baby's delicate skin.

Dr. Song Han believes that gua sha is not suitable for everyone. And the need for regular Chinese medicine to carry out standardized operations, in order to play a certain effect, like 10 months old babies are not suitable for facial gua sha treatment, infants and young children themselves cuticle thickness is 30% thinner than adults, epidermal layer is 20-30% thinner than adults, the total thickness of the dermis layer is also lower than adults, not to mention the facial skin, the skin is more delicate and tender, it is generally not recommended to use gua sha treatment for infants and young children.

Qin Li reminded that if the baby has a cold and fever or other symptoms, parents should go to the regular hospital, with the help of doctors, with the help of the doctor, use regular medical means to treat the baby, with these so-called indigenous remedies, not only will hurt the baby's skin, causing the possibility of infection, but also delay the baby's condition, it is really not worth the loss.

Liu Ying stressed that gua sha is a relatively common traditional Chinese medicine treatment, which can regulate qi and blood, dispel evil and detoxify, relax muscles and vitality, activate blood stasis, beauty and health care, etc. There are strict requirements for the techniques and parts of Gua Sha, and it is recommended to let a professional TCM physiotherapist help. At the same time, we should also keep in mind that gua sha can not cure all diseases, so whether it is adults or children, we must carefully choose whether to carry out gua sha, otherwise it may lead to the opposite effect.

Deng Yuping, chief physician of the Department of Integrative Medicine of Wuhan Children's Hospital, said that the baby's skin is delicate, especially for infants and young children who have just been born, using a hard medium such as a silver ring to scrape the baby, the skin is difficult to withstand such an external force, it is inevitable that the skin will break, and even infection, parents must not treat the child through such a soil method.

"At present, the hospital has not received similar cases, but parents should take this as a warning and do not blindly follow the trend." Deng Yuping said that in the department of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine in the hospital, the doctor's hands are generally used as a medium, instead of a scraping board for children to massage, which is suitable for the treatment of low and moderate fever in children with external fever, that is, children whose body temperature does not exceed 39 ° C. Babies with high fever can also undergo Tuina antipyretic treatment to achieve Izumo Sha. If the body temperature persists at 38.5 ° C and does not recede, it is still necessary to use antipyretic drugs.

Generally speaking, pediatric tuina treatment is generally over half a year old, with baby oil as a tuina lubrication medium, the technique is light and gentle, the force is even, and the baby's left hand can be generally massaged, and the time is 15-20 minutes. After the massage, the child sweats slightly, and the skin of the massage area can be slightly red, like a cloud, and disappears as it comes, like a cloud. After the treatment, drink warm and hot water moderately.

Deng Yuping reminded that when the child does not recede from high fever or fever convulsive convulsions, severe vomiting, headache, abdominal pain, poor mental health, drowsiness and other manifestations, it is recommended to go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible.