Every year after the Spring Festival, many children get sick and have a fever, and many children go to the pediatric clinic, most of which are related to food accumulation. Today, I will teach you a simple method to help children eliminate food.
How to judge whether food is accumulated?
Look at the tongue coating: if the tongue coating is thicker and greasy than usual, the color is white or even yellow, and the probability is food accumulation;
Smell the breath: if the breath is big or even sour, it is mostly indigestion, which is blocked in the gastrointestinal tract;
Look at sleep: if you sleep restlessly at night, cry, talk in your sleep, lie prone to sleep, it is mostly food accumulation;
Look at the stool: if the stool is abnormal, constipation, loose bowels, nipple, residue, sour taste and runny nose, you can basically judge that it is food accumulation.
Tips for promoting digestion and stagnation
If you judge that your child is really accumulating food, then you must find ways to help your child digest food. Here are three tips to help your child quickly melt the accumulated food so as not to get sick with a fever.
After children accumulate food, their daily diet should be simplified these days. Don't eat too complicated, eat something easy to digest, be more vegetarian and less meat, and mix it reasonably. Parents can give their children some vegetables with mild taste, especially green leafy vegetables, fungi, bean products, etc., instead of being vegetarian blindly, or even reducing their food intake, they should adjust the proportion reasonably, so that they can alleviate food accumulation without lack of nutrition. If they persist for 2~3 days, the situation of food accumulation can be alleviated.
After entering the holiday, due to the epidemic, many children are mainly staying at home, and the amount of exercise has plummeted. Especially during the Spring Festival, it is basically just eating, which indirectly leads to the lack of motivation of spleen and stomach transport and aggravates food accumulation. Therefore, it is a good choice to exercise properly according to your own conditions. If you can go outdoors, you can climb mountains and play ball games. If it is inconvenient to go outdoors, you can do exercises indoors and even play games and fitness rings. Try to make children move, speed up intestinal peristalsis and help spleen and stomach transport, so that accumulated food can be eliminated faster.
In addition to diet control, strengthening exercise and using drugs under the guidance of doctors, parents should never ignore an important, safe and effective method, that is, massage for children. Children's massage is very effective for children under 7 years old, especially for children under 5 years old. Parents can insist on doing it for their children during the Spring Festival or at ordinary times, so as to eliminate food accumulation and strengthen the spleen. However, it should be noted that the specific actions of children's massage must be carried out under the guidance of a doctor. If you are not sure which acupoints your children are suitable for, you can come to the hospital to ask a professional doctor to do it, or give you a massage prescription.
Elimination technique
Location The palmar surface of the thumb is near the first section of the palmar end.
The operation from the metacarpophalangeal joint of the thumb to the finger tip is called clearing stomach meridian.
300-500 times.
Position the thenar below the thumb root.
Operate the thumb end at the midpoint of the thenar of the child.
300-500 times.
Position Draw a circle with the center of the palm as the center, and about 2/3 of the horizontal stripes from the center to the middle finger root as the radius.
Operate the thumb of the right hand and start to transport it to Kangua (for those with small heavenly heart) to Dugua (referring to the midpoint of the side semicircle), which is the eight diagrams for the luck.
300-500 times.
Located in the back of the waist, when the first thoracic vertebra to the lower sides of the spinous process of the fifth lumbar vertebra, 0.5 inch beside the posterior midline.
Operate your hands along both sides of the spine, pinch the skin, while lifting it, and push it forward, from the waist to the neck.
3-6 times.
Mastering the above methods can basically control children's food accumulation, which is the most critical step to regulate children's physique. However, many parents will encounter various other problems in the daily feeding process, especially when their children accumulate food mixed with other situations, or when they want to further strengthen the spleen after digestion, they often have no ideas and don't know how to judge.
For example, have you ever encountered the following problems:
What should children do if they repeatedly accumulate food?
What should the newborn baby do if he accumulates food and spits milk?
What should I do if the child repeatedly accumulates food and the tongue coating is white and thick for a long time?
What if the child has accumulated food and fever, increased body temperature, or exogenous stagnation?
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If you encounter these problems, please go to the Pediatric Department of the Affiliated Hospital of Shanxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Health hotline: 0351-8618543.