Every festive season fat three pounds, the New Year every day the mountain treasures and seafood, the babies also follow the parents to eat fragrant and spicy, adults eat more bites of the problem is not big, the gastrointestinal digestion and absorption function of the small babies is not strong, a little attention is easy to accumulate food, bao dad and mother can not ignore it.
What is accumulation of food?
"Children are sick, accumulation of food is the first", accumulation of food is the saying of Traditional Chinese medicine, Western medicine is called dyspepsia, refers to eating too much, or too high nutrition, more than the maximum digestion and absorption function of the baby's spleen and stomach.
Food can not be digested and absorbed, thereby damaging the function of the spleen and stomach, so that the digestion and absorption function is worse, thus forming a food accumulation.
What are the symptoms of accumulated food?
Parents should observe more, detect early, and deal with it early. There are signs of food accumulation in the baby, as long as it is treated in time, the baby can recover quickly.
Babies over the age of 3 can basically tell their parents that they are uncomfortable, but if the baby can't speak, parents need to judge according to the symptoms that the baby shows.
1. Smell the breath
The baby's bad breath (which may be sour or putrid, etc.) must be accumulated food.
Parents should also pay attention to the taste of the baby when burping, the baby burped immediately close to smell, the baby usually has no breath, but the taste of the hiccup has a vomit sour smell, that is, the accumulation of food.
2, look at the tongue moss
See if the baby's tongue is thick, some babies' tongue is not thick, but the tip of the tongue is red. After a few days of accumulation of food, the tongue will be thick and gradually become yellowish; the white and thick or yellow thick tongue is usually accumulated.
3, look at the appetite
If the baby can eat normally, and suddenly does not like to eat, most of this is the accumulation of food. Or the baby's stomach is hard to touch, and the abdomen is uncomfortable, which is also a manifestation of food accumulation.
4. Watch the stool
If the baby's stool is particularly laborious, the stool is thick and yellow in color, or the stool is particularly dry, hard, and black in color, this is a manifestation of heat. If the stool is particularly smelly and smells very bad, it is already a accumulation of food.
5. Touch the temperature
Whether it is accumulation of food or spleen deficiency, the baby's body temperature will change. The position in the middle of the shoulder blades on the chest or back, if it is not a warm feeling to the touch, but a noticeable dry heat, this indicates that there is lung heat.
Another position is the palm of the hand or the center of the foot. Normally, the baby's palm is warm and tidal, if the baby's palm is a clear burning sensation to the touch, this is also a manifestation of accumulated raw heat.
6, look at sleep
If the baby is restless and gritting his teeth during sleep, the mother will recall the baby's recent diet. Such as eating raw and cold, indigestible food, eating before sleeping, etc., will cause small belly bloating, and even stomach pain.
What are the dangers of accumulated food?
1. Cough and fever
Accumulation of food can lead to cough, which is what is called "food cough" in Chinese medicine. Accumulated food can also cause your baby to have a fever, which is called "heat accumulation." The cause of heat accumulation is due to the fact that the food is not digested and stagnates in the middle of the coke. Long-term stagnation will reduce heat, causing the baby to have a fever.
2. Diarrhea
In Traditional Chinese medicine, it is said that accumulated food often coexists with the evil of "wind and cold", "damp heat" and "summer wetness", intersecting the gastrointestinal tract, and the spleen and stomach qi machine is difficult to rise and fall, so the accumulation of food will lead to repeated episodes of diarrhea and difficult to cure.
3. Malnutrition
Problems in the spleen and stomach can easily lead to insufficient qi and blood biochemistry, and symptoms of malnutrition and emaciation occur.
Ways to eliminate food accumulation in your baby
1. Diet regulation
If the baby has symptoms such as decreased appetite and cough, diet adjustment treatment can be taken. Three meals a day should be slightly "underserved", choose light vegetables, easy-to-digest rice porridge, noodle soup, noodles, etc., do not eat fried, puffed food, eat less or even do not eat meat food, you can eat some fish and shrimp appropriately.
In addition, let the baby drink more water, ensure adequate sleep, timely excretion, do not go to public places, the accumulation of food will gradually ease.
2. Drug consumption
If the baby's symptoms are not alleviated or there is a low-grade fever, it is necessary to consider whether to use anti-food drugs, and to use drugs under the guidance of a doctor
3. Massage
1. Massage the abdomen clockwise
Helping your child massage your abdomen clockwise can effectively move your stool along your baby's intestines and help your child defecate.
Second, help your child pinch his spine
When the baby has accumulated food, parents can let the baby lie on the bed, exposing the back, and then gently pinch the baby's skin along the two fingers on both sides of the baby's spine, and then slowly push forward until the baby's neck is large. It can effectively help your baby reduce the accumulation of food.
If parents are not sure whether the baby is accumulated food, or have any questions about the baby's nutritional status, you can take the baby to do a growth and development monitoring, children's comprehensive evaluation guidance, so that you can understand the baby's situation clearly ~ ~