What are the symptoms of spleen deficiency in babies?

Spleen deficiency is mainly a term used in traditional Chinese medicine. Many people in life suffer from spleen deficiency. This symptom is prone to occur in people of all ages, and babies may also experience symptoms of spleen deficiency. When a baby has spleen deficiency, the symptoms are generally multifaceted and will be more obvious in daily life. Therefore, the baby's spleen deficiency must be treated with the right medicine. What are the symptoms of a baby's spleen deficiency?

1. Don’t like to eat

The spleen and stomach are organs that digest food. If the spleen is weak, it will be unable to transport and transform food, and the child will always not want to eat and have a poor appetite. There are many reasons for this. For example, frequent indigestion can lead to spleen deficiency, which in turn aggravates the indigestion. In addition, frequent use of some medications, such as antibiotics, can also cause damage to the spleen and stomach, leading to spleen deficiency.

2. Constipation or diarrhea

Children with spleen deficiency are unable to transport and transform, and their spleen qi is insufficient, unable to transport body fluids to the large intestine, so they will suffer from constipation. This is especially true for children with spleen yin deficiency, who are particularly prone to constipation because toxins accumulate in the body, cannot be excreted, and are repeatedly absorbed, so such children often have many physical problems. Spleen deficiency can also cause diarrhea in children. This is because the spleen is unable to transport and transform food, so some children will have diarrhea as soon as they eat.

3. Being smaller than people of the same age

For children, malnutrition can cause them to be shorter than other children of the same age. Some children are a head shorter than the shortest student in the class. Such children are often malnourished. Parents seem to be aware of this problem, so they try their best to cook all kinds of delicious food for their children and let them eat more. This is because they don’t understand the principles of Chinese medicine. The child’s spleen and stomach are already weak and unable to transport and transform food. The more they eat, the less able they are to transport and transform food. As a result, the food piles up, causing indigestion, which then further worsens their spleen deficiency. Therefore, at this time you should first nourish the spleen and stomach to make them strong, and then eat food so that you can absorb the nutrients in it.