What to do if your one-year-old baby has food accumulation

A one-year-old baby can be said to be in a very important stage. This is the time when the baby is developing the fastest and is also the time when he is most vulnerable to harm. In order to make their children grow up healthily, parents often feed them large amounts of food, hoping that their children will be healthy. But this can easily cause indigestion in children, leading to food stagnation and other diseases. The following is an introduction to children’s food accumulation problems.

1. Symptoms of food accumulation in one-year-old babies

The main symptoms of indigestion in babies are abdominal distension, dry or sour stools, foul-smelling flatulence, sour and rancid belching, and abdominal distension and heat. Food accumulation over a long period of time can cause malnutrition in children and affect their growth and development.

2. Methods for treating indigestion

(1) Traditional Chinese Medicine

a. Pinch the spine: Let the baby lie on his stomach on the bed. In summer, you can take off the shirt to expose the back. Use the thumb, index finger and middle finger of both hands to gently pinch the skin two fingers away from both sides of the baby's spine, starting from the coccyx. Slowly pinch and push forward to the Dazhui point on the neck. Pinch five or six times from bottom to top as a group. When pinching for the third time, lift the skin upwards after every three pinches. It is best to do this method once every morning and evening.

b. Rub Zhongwan: The Zhongwan acupoint is located halfway between the center of the chest and the navel. Parents should use the base of their palms to rotate and massage twice a day.

(2) Home care

a. Eat some hawthorn as a snack: Eating some hawthorn and hawthorn products properly can promote the secretion of gastric juice, eliminate greasiness, resolve internal accumulation, and astringe yin and stimulate the appetite. It can increase appetite and help digestion. However, hawthorn slices contain a lot of sugar and should not be consumed for a long time or in excess.

b. Yam rice porridge

Function: Regulate the spleen and stomach, nourish yin and fluid. It is used for children with indigestion, loss of appetite, weight loss, and sallow complexion and thin body. Preparation method: Take 100 grams of dried yam slices, 100 grams of rice or millet (corn), and appropriate amount of white sugar. Wash the rice clean, crush it together with the yam slices, put it into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, and cook it into porridge.

(3) Drug therapy

a. Children's Food Pills

When your baby eats too much and catches a cold, causing abdominal distension, nausea and vomiting, irritability and thirst, thick yellow tongue coating, and dry stool, you can take Xiaoer Huashi Pills. Packaging: 1.5g per pill. Usage: For children under 1 year old, take 1 pill each time, twice a day; for children over 1 year old, take 2 pills each time, twice a day. Tips: Dissolve in boiling water before taking.

(4) Zinc supplementation therapy

Zinc supplementing foods: lean meat, pork liver, fish, egg yolks, etc. Function: Zinc supplementation helps intestinal absorption, promotes the development of taste buds, and improves baby's anorexia, picky eating, and indigestion. Tips: Pay attention to the amount of zinc supplementation and do not take it in excess, otherwise it will cause zinc poisoning.