City Letters
Chairman talks about health care (jointly launched by Zhejiang Traditional Chinese Medicine Association and City Express)
The first person responsible for health is not the doctor but himself, whether it is prevention before illness or rehabilitation after illness, the same is true! However, different diseases have different adjustment methods, so the Zhejiang Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine has selected a group of chairmen of specialized branches with rich clinical experience and profound academic achievements, and together with The City Express, jointly launched the column "The Main Committee Talks About Health". I believe that the experience of the chairmen will provide reference and help for everyone's disease prevention and treatment. ——Fan Yongsheng, President of Zhejiang Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Professor Wang Xiaoming's pediatric outpatient clinic is usually always surrounded by anxious parents, including a type of diet problem, Professor Wang feels that many parents are "overly worried", often only to parents to teach, not to prescribe any medicine to their children.
"Now there are at least 30% of the outpatient clinics, which are problematic for children to eat." Children do not eat well, eat less, if it is a month or several months of things, then I will prescribe some spleen and stomach, appetizers to help digestion, if it is not good from childhood appetite, then I will not give him medicine, but will educate and educate parents well. ”
A child's appetite varies from person to person
Professor Wang Xiaoming said that some children are wolfed down as soon as they are born, and even when they are unhappy or sick, their appetite does not diminish at all. Some children have a small natural appetite and are easily affected by emotional or physical conditions. It's just individual differences.
"Children are born with an extraordinary instinct to survive, they know how much food they need for normal growth and development, and they know what food they need. I rarely see children who are severely malnourished or often sick due to picky eating. Regardless of the size of the child's appetite, I can be sure that their appetite is enough to ensure their good health and enough to allow them to gain weight normally. ”
Professor Wang said that she herself has a small appetite since childhood, her mother always calls her "chicken stomach", and her "mold" is still relatively large among women when she becomes an adult, and her height is also 1 meter 68. Up to now, she eats only two meals a day, and she is still mentally energetic throughout the day, and she does not feel hungry or malnourished.
Force your child to eat
It often backfires
Even if children do not eat well, the most common reason is that parents want their children to eat well.
Children are born with a nature to resist persecution and an instinct to dislike foods that once brought them displeasure.
The child's appetite will also change at any time, for example, for a while he will eat a lot of pumpkins, but after a while, he will become disgusted with pumpkins. Therefore, at all stages of growth, children may have problems with anorexia.
In the first few months of life, if the parent always tries to get the baby to drink more milk, he will have resistance behavior. Similarly, when you first start feeding solid food, if your child hasn't gotten used to it, you let him eat a lot, or if you force him to eat when he's in a bad mood, he will refuse to eat.
Many children become more picky after 18 months, perhaps because they have more ideas. Urging or forcing children to eat further disrupts their appetite and makes it difficult to recover for a long time.
Of course, forcing a child to eat is not the only cause of anorexia, it may also be caused by some kind of anxiety. However, whatever the initial cause, parents' urging and anxiety generally exacerbate the problem: children do not like to eat a certain food for a short period of time, become permanently hate to eat, and when it is time to eat, they are not happy. Chasing after the child's ass to feed, letting the child play while eating, etc., is not advisable.
Therefore, parents must reduce stress, parents are relaxed, children will be relaxed, let children eat happily, concentrate on eating, children's digestion and absorption function will naturally be better.
Children should not be fed too full
Accumulation of food can cause illness
Although Professor Wang Xiaoming has repeatedly stressed to parents that children's small appetite is not necessarily a disease, most parents still hope to let their children eat more, eat more, especially eat more "expensive supplements", do not know that "accumulated food is the source of all diseases", children must not be oversatisfied.
Professor Wang said that the importance of food to the human body is known to everyone, but on the contrary, excessive diet will also damage the spleen and stomach, making digestive and absorption function disorders. In the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, "eating and drinking by doubling, the stomach and intestines are wounded" speaks of this truth. Zeng Shirong, a famous pediatrician in the Yuan Dynasty, wrote the "Book of Living Young Hearts", which wrote: "If you want children to be safe, you often bring three points of hunger and cold; I hope that everyone will follow this law, and natural diseases are not related." ”
Nine times out of ten pediatric diseases are caused by accumulation of food. Accumulated food will not only lead to diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain, bloating and other digestive diseases, in fact, colds, fevers, coughs, etc. are also inseparable from accumulated food. Repeated upper respiratory tract infections are mostly "accumulation of food and fever" in the work, rather than poor resistance, so taking "tonics" can not solve the problem. In addition, children crying at night, constipation, night sweats, aphthous sores, urticaria, etc., are also related to food accumulation, which is the truth that "accumulation of food is the source of all diseases".
Accumulation of food often comes from
"Side meal staple food"
For children over 1 year old, the staple food is three meals a day, while milk is a "side dish". Some children, the meal is not good, but high-protein or raw and cold foods (milk, fruits, drinks) do not eat less. Take the side food as a staple food, and the child will definitely accumulate food when he eats too much.
According to Professor Wang Xiaoming's observation, children drink milk before going to bed, and drinking milk on an empty stomach in the morning is the biggest cause of food accumulation, especially for children with spleen deficiency.
Professor Wang teaches parents a simple way to judge whether the child has accumulated food: the first thing to get up in the morning, smell whether the child has bad breath, there is bad breath, that is, there is a more serious accumulation of food, must intervene, otherwise the disease will "provoke" the child, the most common is a cold.
How to intervene? Children who eat night milk should not drink milk before going to bed; the diet should be light and easy to digest in those days; and then eat 2-3 days of Bohol pills or hawthorn pills. If the child still has bad breath after such treatment, then you must quickly turn to a TCM pediatrician.
Bohol Pill is a kind of proprietary Chinese medicine for children that Professor Wang Xiaoming respects and is relatively safe, and is a famous recipe for the treatment of food accumulation in Zhu Danxi, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor of the Zhejiang school of the Yuan Dynasty, and is mainly used to treat all food accumulation. The formula consists of hawthorn, divine comedy, half summer, poria, tangerine peel, forsythia, and lysine, and can be used as a common medicine for families with children.