Happy Chinese New Year, every day is a big meal, plus children's favorite snacks, children accidentally eat too much. In addition, during the festival, the original diet and routine are often broken, and the function of children's spleen and stomach is affected, which is easy to cause food accumulation.

Director Wu of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine recommended two remedies for treating children, so there is no need to panic in simple conditioning.

How to judge children's food accumulation?

Chief physician Wu of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine said that children's stagnation is divided into milk accumulation and spleen deficiency, which usually have the following manifestations. Parents can refer to it to make a judgment:

1. Lactic acid or sour taste in the mouth.

2. Poor appetite, the baby is unwilling to drink milk or eat, and it is easy to vomit after drinking milk or eating.

3. Abdominal bulge is more obvious after meals, and some children are accompanied by pain.

4. The stool is thin and soft, with sour taste or rotten egg smell.

Crying at night is often accompanied by irritability.

? Malt water-a prescription for treating children's stagnation

Materials: raw malt 15g, hawthorn 5g, candied dates 1-2.

Methods: Wash raw malt, hawthorn and candied dates and soak them in clear water for 10 minute. Add appropriate amount of water to the above materials, and decoct with slow fire 10 minute. Take the juice and drink it 2-3 times.

What should the child do with loose bowels?

Diarrhea is generally more common in summer and autumn, but during the Spring Festival, if you don't control your diet or accidentally eat some unclean food, it may also cause diarrhea. Pay attention to whether the child has sour stools, undigested food and milk flaps in the stools, and have symptoms of pain relief after diarrhea, and make corresponding adjustments.

Wu suggested that if children have diarrhea due to improper diet, they can be conditioned with dried cabbage porridge.

? Dry Chinese Cabbage Porridge —— A Prescription for Treating Diarrhea in Children

Ingredients: 30g of dried cabbage and 50g of rice.

Method: Soak and wash the dried Chinese cabbage, cut it into small pieces, and cook it with rice and water to make porridge. Add some salt to taste. Mainly drink porridge water, not dried vegetables.

Function: clearing away heat and depression in the intestine and stomach.

Source | Yangcheng Evening News Yangcheng School

Editor | Cui Wencan