Children's growth needs careful care, and many small problems that seem to be nothing to adults may have unpredictable effects on children, so special attention is needed. Let's share with you the knowledge and methods of children's health care in traditional Chinese medicine.
Children's health care knowledge and methods of traditional Chinese medicine 1 Children are in the process of continuous growth and development, and the functions of internal organs are not perfect, especially the deficiency of lung, spleen and kidney, which makes them more likely to get sick than adults, so children's daily health care should be strengthened.
I. Daily health care for children aged 0-3
(A) diet aftercare
Infants and young children have weak spleen and stomach function, and the food should be fine, soft, rotten and broken, with balanced nutrition. 2, develop good eating habits, avoid partial eclipse, longitudinal children are good, milk and food are excessive.
(2) Daily living adjustment
1, baby clothes should be loose, not tight, which will hinder the circulation of qi and blood and affect the development of bones. Baby clothes should be cold and warm to avoid overheating.
2, infants and young children should have enough sleep, pay attention to gradually form a sleep-based, daytime-based work and rest habits.
3, often take children to outdoor activities, get more sunshine, enhance physical fitness, and increase resistance to diseases.
II. Daily Health Care for Children Aged 4-6
(A) diet aftercare
1, food varieties should be diversified, with cereals as the staple food, and milk, fish, meat, eggs, bean products, vegetables, fruits and other foods should be eaten at the same time, and attention should be paid to the collocation of meat and vegetables.
2, to cultivate children's good eating habits, eating on time, relatively quantitative, not eating snacks, not picky eaters, not partial eclipse. Cultivate the ability to eat independently.
(2) Daily living adjustment
Take the road of health in spring, summer, autumn and winter to see the problems of healthy diet and health care for mothers and children
1, develop good living habits, including regular work and rest, regular defecation.
2, according to the temperature changes, timely increase or decrease clothes. Follow the old saying, "If you want to be safe for children at four o'clock, you often have to be hungry and cold."
(3) Sports health care
1, ensure a certain time of outdoor activities every day, receive sunlight and breathe fresh air.
2, strengthen exercise, appropriate exercise, such as skipping rope, racket ball, etc. Third, children's diet should be taboo
1, dry stool: it is advisable to eat green vegetables (celery, cabbage, radish, etc.), fruits (bananas, apples, pitaya, etc.) and coarse grains (corn, oats, etc.); Avoid spicy, dry, fried, spicy and greasy food.
2, diarrhea: it is appropriate to eat coix seed, yam, etc. Avoid eating cold and greasy food.
Children's diet should be avoided.
1, dry stool: it is advisable to eat green vegetables (celery, cabbage, radish, etc.), fruits (bananas, apples, pitaya, etc.) and coarse grains (corn, oats, etc.); Avoid spicy, dry, fried, spicy and greasy food.
2, diarrhea: it is appropriate to eat coix seed, yam, etc. Avoid eating cold and greasy food.
3, loss of appetite: it is appropriate to eat lentils, lotus seeds, hawthorn and so on; Avoid cold, fried, sweet and greasy food.
Disease prevention: advocate breastfeeding, strengthen physical exercise, create a good living environment and reduce house dust.
Key points of children's health care
In the process of children's growth and development, their diet and environment have changed several times, and their physical and psychological development will make several leaps from quantitative change to qualitative change. Accordingly, childhood can be divided into five stages: neonatal period, infancy, infancy, early childhood and childhood. The health care points of each stage are summarized as follows:
(1) Neonatal period
From birth to full moon is the neonatal period. Focus on heat preservation, reasonable feeding and infection prevention, and ensure adequate sleep and good sleeping posture.
(2) infancy
From the full moon to the first year of life is infancy. This is the fastest growing stage in a person's life, and it is called the first leap period in life. The focus of health care in this period is to feed reasonably, pay attention to cold and warm nursing, and carry out various vaccinations on time. Often play in Japan and China to promote leap-forward growth and development and improve resistance.
(3) Early childhood
Childhood is from one year old to three years old. Pay attention to early education, promote intellectual growth and sprout with enlightenment. Continue to do a good job in preventive health care and cultivate good hygiene and living habits.
(4) Early childhood
From three years old to seven years old, it is called preschool. Kindergarten education should be carried out in a planned way, various activities suitable for young children should be carried out, preventive health care should be done well, and medical care and education should be strengthened to prevent accidents. Attention should be paid to cultivating excellent moral character and initial independent living ability.
(5) Childhood
Childhood from seven to twelve years old is also called school-age childhood. We should attach importance to moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic education, make it develop in an all-round way, continue to do a good job in children's health care, and pay special attention to preventing myopia, dental caries and spinal deformity, and prevent flat feet. Strengthen physical exercise to further develop physique and wisdom.
Knowledge and methods of Chinese medicine for children's health care 2. Knowledge of Chinese medicine for children's health care
Rubbing abdomen
Site abdomen
Operators wash their hands, rub their palms together until they get hot, and put the ventral surface of fingers or the palmar surface of palms on the abdomen of children. Press "rubbing the abdomen around the navel" to make a circular and rhythmic movement in the abdomen.
Note that the operation should be uniform, slow and soft, with the comfort of children as the degree. Children's skin is delicate, and the operator must cut it short. When necessary, children's talcum powder can be used as the medium.
kneading the muscles along the spine
On the back, on both sides of the spine, from the great vertebra of the Du meridian to the end of the coccyx.
The thumb and forefinger of the operator's hands are alternately matched, and they are pinched once along both sides of the spine from bottom to top, from the cauda sacrum to the inferior cervical vertebra in the order of pushing, pinching, twisting and releasing. According to the condition and constitution, it can be pinched for 4-6 times. In any time from the second time, according to the symptoms of different zang-fu organs, the method of "revisiting" can be adopted to stimulate the Shu points of the zang-fu organs on the back in order to strengthen the curative effect. After the sixth pass, place your thumb with both hands at Shenshu point on the waist, and press and knead them properly.
Zusanli point
It is located on the anterolateral side of the calf, three inches below the calf's nose (four fingers in children) and one finger outside the anterior tibial crest.
Yingxiang point
It is located near the midpoint of the outer edge of the alar, in the nasolabial groove.
Sishencong point
At the top of the head, Baihui point (the intersection point between the two ear tips and the center line of the head) is opened one inch in front, back, left and right, and there are four points.
Abuse of antipyretics in children's health care
Fever is a necessary protective mechanism for human body. Some young mothers think that children who have a fever will be cured as soon as they take antipyretics. Therefore, they always give their children antipyretics. In fact, it is easy to create illusion, cover up symptoms and make the disease difficult to diagnose.
The average healthy person's body temperature is about 37℃, and if it is higher than 37℃, it is fever. Children's brain development is not yet perfect, and the function of thermoregulation center is weak. Therefore, when children are sick, they will have fever, while other symptoms are not obvious, such as colds, measles, pneumonia, local infections, drug reactions, rheumatic fever and so on. Fever became a signal that the child was ill. Therefore, fever is an important sign in the diagnosis of diseases. If fever is suppressed with antipyretics as soon as it comes up, it will often cover up the illness, make the diagnosis difficult, and even be diagnosed when the disease is critical. In addition, some antipyretics, such as aspirin, affect the coagulation mechanism of children, leading to bleeding of skin, lungs, brain and other organs; Another example is phenacetin, which can change the low hemoglobin in newborn blood into high hemoglobin, so that the ability of red blood cells to carry oxygen decreases, leading to tissue hypoxia, and even brain edema, convulsions, coma and so on. Therefore, it is not good for children's health to give antipyretics easily.
When children have fever, we should find out the cause, and then make symptomatic treatment or etiological treatment. If the child's body temperature does not exceed 38℃, it is generally unnecessary to use antipyretics, and close observation is enough during treatment. Of course, children's body temperature is too high, if it reaches 39℃ or above, it will seriously affect their health, and convulsions and convulsions may occur. In this case, antipyretics can be used on the basis of active treatment, and physical cooling methods, such as alcohol bath and ice pack cooling, can be used at the same time.
Abuse of antibiotics in child health care
Epidemiological investigation shows that more than 90% of upper respiratory tract infections are caused by virus infection.
Therefore, the routine application of antibiotics in upper respiratory tract infection is not appropriate, and it will also cause the threat of pathogen resistance to antibiotics and its adverse reactions, as well as the waste of drugs. Don't use chloramphenicol and streptomycin for whatever reason as soon as your child gets sick. If antibiotics such as streptomycin, neomycin, gentamicin and kanamycin are used for a long time, it will affect the auditory nerve, causing dizziness, tinnitus and even deafness. Use of chloramphenicol may cause aplastic anemia. Children under 8 years old, especially newborns, take tetracycline and oxytetracycline, which can easily lead to yellowing of teeth and hypoplasia of enamel, so children do not use tetracycline and oxytetracycline.
Children's health care is one disease and many drugs.
Children suffer from a disease, and parents often go hand in hand with multiple drugs. As everyone knows, the drugs are too mixed, and the interactions can be offset, while the toxic reactions add up, which not only has poor curative effect, but also has adverse reactions. If sulfanilamide is combined with Vc, it can aggravate renal poisoning; The combination of penicillin and aspirin can reduce the antibacterial effect of penicillin. As for penicillin, chloramphenicol, sulfonamides together, or penicillin, cephalosporin and gentamicin together, there are also the above risks.
Children's health care, weakness and tonic
Nowadays, the phenomenon of taking tonics for children is everywhere. The parents' original intention was to strengthen their children's physique and promote their development, but due to lack of medical knowledge, it backfired and made up for the problem. A doctor reported that nine infants suffered from nervous system symptoms after taking ginseng, and another child suffered from convulsion and coma after taking a large dose of ginseng, and finally died. The expert's advice is: healthy children had better not take supplements, and frail children over 5 years old can take them at their discretion, but they should take them under the guidance of doctors. Parents should not make their own decisions to prevent accidents.
Avoid abusing vitamins in children's health care.
Vitamins do play an important role in children's growth and development, but we should not blindly think that more is better. Many medicinal vitamins have certain adverse effects and even toxic reactions, especially fat-soluble vitamins. Too much or too long dosage may cause accumulation in the body and poisoning. For example, eating too much cod liver oil (including Va and Vd) can cause fever, anorexia, irritability and impaired liver and kidney function. Although water-soluble vitamins are safer, they should not be neglected. If Vc is taken too much, it can induce urinary calculi and brittle bones. Therefore, nutritionists emphasize that natural vitamins in food should be the best choice.
Knowledge and methods of TCM child health care 3 How to regulate children's spleen and stomach? Find the reason first and then adjust.
I. Reasons
1, improper diet. Children are in the stage of growth and development, and the function of spleen and stomach is not perfect. Therefore, if you don't control your diet, you are hungry, full, don't eat on time, or have too many snacks, it can affect the function of the spleen and stomach, resulting in spleen and stomach dysfunction, spleen and stomach weakness and other symptoms, and you will be "sallow and emaciated" for a long time.
2, overeating and cold. Children are the main body of "yang exuberance" and are prone to internal heat, so they like to eat cold and cool. If you don't control it, eating cold things will easily damage the spleen and stomach, resulting in deficiency and cold of the spleen and stomach, which will affect the digestion and absorption of food and the intake of nutrients.
3. Unreasonable medication. After the child fell ill, parents were very anxious, so they took a lot of drugs orally in a short time, especially some western medicines with anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects, such as aspirin, paracetamol, indomethacin, erythromycin, etc. These drugs all stimulated the gastrointestinal tract and caused nausea, vomiting and other diseases. In this way, although the disease was cured, it left the future trouble of stomach damage. In the long run, it will affect the digestion and absorption of food, resulting in malnutrition and "sallow and emaciated".
4. Lack of trace elements in human body. If zinc deficiency can lead to diarrhea and anorexia; Calcium deficiency leads to growth stagnation, convulsion, etc. Iron deficiency causes anemia, anorexia, growth and development stagnation. All these can make the human body absorb insufficient nutrients, which will make children "sallow and emaciated" for a long time.
5. Nutritional imbalance. Children have no self-control ability and eat without restraint. Once they eat too much, they will damage the spleen and stomach, have digestive disorders, have poor absorption, and are sallow and emaciated. Some parents think that their children are not nutritious enough, and they intensify their efforts to prepare good food for their children. As a result, the burden on the stomach and intestines is increased, and the spleen and stomach are further damaged, entering a vicious circle.
Second, conditioning
1, diet: miscellaneous grains strengthen spleen and stomach.
For children with spleen and stomach weakness, the summer diet should be light, rich in protein, vitamins, trace elements and digestible food, and do not eat too greasy food. Cooking uses soup, porridge, soup, cream and other situations to facilitate digestion and absorption by the spleen and stomach. Parents should pay attention to food control to avoid overeating and hurting the spleen and stomach. Children should eat more whole grains, such as millet, which has the function of strengthening spleen and stomach, and is suitable for children with spleen and stomach deficiency and heat and nausea. A thick layer of "rice oil" on millet porridge is extremely rich in nutrition, which is very helpful for restoring gastrointestinal digestive function. In addition, corn has the functions of invigorating spleen, promoting diuresis, stimulating appetite and improving intelligence. Eating more corn can improve children's gastrointestinal function and help children develop intelligence. Coix seed has the functions of invigorating spleen, tonifying lung, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis. It is high in protein and easy to digest.
In addition, you should eat more beans or bean products, such as soybeans, which also have the function of strengthening the spleen and benefiting qi. Tofu and soybean milk are quite beneficial to children with weak spleen and stomach. Red bean has the function of invigorating spleen and enriching blood, which is especially suitable for children with spleen deficiency and anemia.
Parents can feed miscellaneous grains to children with spleen deficiency in many ways, such as adding millet or beans to rice; Add some corn flour or soybean flour to the flour when making pasta; Make corn flour into corn paste, corn cake, etc., so that children can easily accept it.
2. Drugs: TCM typing adjustment
Poor spleen and stomach transport: anorexia accompanied by belching, nausea, abdominal distension, and indigestion in stool. Commonly used atractylodes rhizome 9 grams, dried tangerine peel 4. 5 grams, 9 grams of Fructus Aurantii, 6 grams of Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli, 9 grams of cereal buds and 9 grams of malt. Decoct.
Spleen and stomach weakness type: emaciation, eating less, accompanied by pale face, lack of energy and sticky stool. Commonly used Poria cocos12g, Yam15g, fried atractylodes 9g, Dangshen 9g and Massa Medicata Fermentata 9g. Decoct.
Deficiency of stomach yin: anorexia, excessive drinking, dry stool, hot hands and feet, easy anxiety, and poor sleep. Commonly used Radix Adenophorae 9 grams, Radix Ophiopogonis 9 grams, Dendrobium 9 grams, Radix Pseudostellariae 12 grams, Fructus Cannabis 6 grams, and Fructus oryzae 9 grams. Decoct.
3, health care: massage acupuncture points
Massage Zusanli Point Zusanli is located on the outside of the two calves, and the third horizontal finger under the knee is outside the tibia, which is a systemic strong point. Parents massage Zusanli point for 5~ 10 minutes every day for children, which can make children's digestive system flourish, increase digestion acceptance rate, and improve sallow and emaciated.
Chiropractic method can be adopted for infants and young children. Parents stand on the right side of the child, let him lie prone, pinch the skin on both sides of the spine with both hands, and gradually move up from the cauda sacrum to the neck, repeatedly for more than ten times, twice a day. Chiropractic has the functions of strengthening the spleen, helping digestion and strengthening the body, improving appetite, reducing colds and strengthening physique.
4, diet: spleen and stomach weakness to drink porridge is the best.
A, red dates and barley porridge
8 ~10 pieces of red dates and appropriate amount of barley, soaked in warm water and boiled over high fire for consumption.
B, red dates and rice porridge
An appropriate amount of glutinous rice is soaked in a small amount of water, then fried in a pan until it is slightly yellow, and then 8 ~10 pieces of soaked jujube are added, which is boiled and eaten.
C, lotus porridge
Lotus seeds are peeled and cored, soaked in warm water, boiled with strong fire, and eaten with a little sugar.
D, coix seed porridge
Appropriate amount of coix seed, or add a small amount of glutinous rice, soak in warm water and cook porridge with strong fire.
E. Broths
Cook soup with chicken or beef and ribs, add clove, fennel and cinnamon, and add a little salt to eat it.
Proposal: For those with weak spleen and stomach, porridge is the best! If it is possible to drink any kind of porridge cooked by yam, poria cocos and coix seed every day, it can play a role in invigorating spleen and stomach.
Although children are not short of food now, unreasonable eating habits have led to the imbalance of children's spleen and stomach. How to regulate children's spleen and stomach above is detailed and prepared, hoping to help parents and friends.