One and a half month old baby's tongue is covered with thick white fur

A baby of one and a half months old is in a period of constantly adding complementary foods. If you do not pay attention to the addition of complementary foods and accidentally feed your child food that is easy to cause inflammation, the consequences will be serious. Therefore, we should always pay attention to providing children with a healthy, scientific and reasonable diet. Of course, sometimes children will have a thick and white tongue coating. So what’s the matter with a one and a half month old baby’s thick white tongue coating?

Causes of thick white tongue coating in infants

1. A baby's thick tongue is generally caused by weak spleen and stomach and poor digestion.

2. Generally, babies who mainly feed on milk will have thick tongue coating. Many babies will have very thick tongue coating. Observe your baby's stool. If it is dry, it means that the baby is getting a little hot.

3. If the tongue coating is pale white, it means that there may be a lot of cold in the body, and it is usually accompanied by cold body and limbs, cold hands and feet, etc. At this time, you should pay attention to keeping warm and choose a warm diet.

The tongue has a close relationship with the internal organs. When the internal organs are diseased, it can be manifested in the tongue quality, tongue coating, and tongue shape. Now let’s take a look at what the thick white tongue coating on a baby means.

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

2. Black tongue coating that is dry and looks like cracks on the bottom of a river, often seen in seriously ill children with long-term high fever;

3. When there is stomach disease caused by indigestion, food accumulation, cough and phlegm, 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 is more obvious;

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

The above paragraphs have given us a good answer to the question of why babies have thick and white tongue coating. I sincerely hope that friends who have doubts in this regard can really read the above content, so that they will be more experienced and knowledgeable when dealing with some symptoms that babies have in daily life. This will also allow their children to grow up better and healthier, and make mothers feel more at ease.