What is the reason for white tongue coating in children?

If a child has a white tongue coating, there may be other symptoms, such as gastrointestinal discomfort and bad breath. At this time, parents should educate their children to develop good living habits and eating habits. On this basis, they can help their children regulate their bodies through diet, but the prerequisite is to find the root cause of the child's white tongue coating.

What is the reason for white tongue coating in children?

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the tongue can reflect a person's physical condition. Most babies have thick white tongue coating, while a healthy tongue coating is pink and tender. The tongue is closely related to the internal organs. When the internal organs are diseased, it can be seen in the tongue quality, tongue coating, and tongue shape. So, what is going on when the baby has thick white tongue coating?

Why does my baby have thick white tongue coating?

1. If you find white spots on your child’s tongue and even on his lips, the child may have worms in his stomach.

2. Black tongue coating that is dry and looks like cracked river bottom often appears in seriously ill children with long-term high fever.

3. When there are stomach problems caused by indigestion, food accumulation, cough and sputum, the tongue coating will become thick and greasy.

4. Some allergic diseases may cause a map-like tongue coating or peeling tongue coating;

5. When a child catches a cold, a thick layer of white fur will appear on the tongue in the early stages of the cold. As a cold develops, the tongue coating will turn yellow, indicating that the heat symptoms are more obvious.

6. When a child becomes dehydrated due to diarrhea or has a persistent high fever, a dry tongue coating will appear.

What to do if your baby has a thick white tongue coating

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that there are many factors that cause children's tongue coating to become thick and white. For example, getting a fever is also an important cause of the thick and white tongue coating. Therefore, we should be in a good mood every day to avoid children getting angry. Children can be given more heat-clearing and detoxifying foods, such as white radish, lotus root, mung bean, hawthorn, etc. Children should be given more vegetables and fruits every day, and they must be given enough water. If the problem of thick white tongue coating is still very serious, then the following can be used:

1. Job's tears: It has the effect of clearing away heat and dampness. It can be cooked into porridge with rock sugar and given to children as a snack.

2. Light bamboo leaves: They can clear the mind and promote urination. They can relieve the discomfort of urination caused by getting angry. At the same time, light bamboo leaves can not only clear away heat, but also regulate the spleen, stomach and intestines of the baby. You can use light bamboo leaves to make water for your child to drink on a daily basis.

3. Rice sprouts: They can help digestion, relieve children’s problems with food accumulation and fever caused by indigestion, and help children defecate easily and excrete toxins from the body.