How to treat children's indigestion?

Indigestion in children is very harmful to their bodies. It can easily burden their stomachs and intestines, and it can also cause poor absorption in children. There are many ways to treat indigestion. If the condition persists for a long time, you might as well use traditional Chinese medicine, because traditional Chinese medicine will not bring more side effects, and traditional Chinese medicine treatment is mainly based on conditioning.

1. Traditional Chinese Medicine

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 thumbs, index fingers and middle fingers of both hands to gently pinch the skin starting from the coccyx, two fingers away from both sides of the baby's spine. 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.

Push the spleen and earth point: The spleen and earth point is on the spiral surface of the thumb (see ① in the figure below). Mothers can use the thumb to massage in a clockwise direction, once a day, 200 times each time.

Rub the Banmen: Banmen is located at the raised part of the thenar eminence (see Figure ② below). Mothers can use their thumbs to rub the baby clockwise, once a day, 50 times each time.

Abdominal massage: Mommy rubs her palms to warm them up first, then slowly massages the baby’s abdomen in a clockwise direction for about 30 times.

2. Home care

Eat some hawthorn as a snack: Eating some hawthorn and hawthorn products properly can promote the secretion of gastric juice, has the effect of eliminating greasiness, resolving internal accumulation, astringing yin and appetizing, 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.

Rubbing the navel and abdomen to aid digestion: The baby lies flat on the bed, and the parents rub the navel area with the middle finger or the base of the palm; you can also place four fingertips on the baby's abdomen and make gentle circular motions to promote intestinal peristalsis and help the baby digest.

3. Diet adjustment

The three meals a day should be a little lighter. Choose light vegetables, easily digestible rice porridge, noodle soup, noodles, etc. Do not eat fried or puffed foods, eat less or even no meat, and eat some fish and shrimp appropriately.