What to do if your child's throat is red and swollen

Parents are most afraid that their children will have health problems, and they feel heartbroken when they see it. If not treated in time, the disease will gradually become more serious and may be incurable. The same is true for children's sore throats. So what should we do when we encounter such a problem? This is something many people want to know very much. Let's listen to how they explain it! I hope every parent can understand it.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sore throat is mostly caused by factors such as lung and stomach fire or exogenous wind-heat.

Sore throat caused by lung and stomach fire rushing up is mostly caused by eating a lot of spicy food. In addition to sore throat, children often also have symptoms such as high fever, thirst, headache, thick yellow phlegm, dry stool, yellow urine, red tongue, and thick yellow tongue coating.

When a child has a fever and a sore throat, parents should first identify the nature of the sore throat to see whether it is caused simply by excessive internal heat or if the child also has cold in the body. The two conditions differ greatly in how they are treated.

How to distinguish them? A simple method is to touch the child's hands and feet. If the child's hands and feet are hot, it means that the child has internal heat; if the child's hands and feet are cold, it often means that the child has internal heat. Tonsillitis is caused by heavy cold and dampness and lack of blood in the child's body. This type of child is most likely to have recurrent tonsillitis, and most of them snore while sleeping.

1. The treatment for fever and sore throat caused by excessive internal heat is the same as that for fever and sore throat caused by lung and stomach fire rushing up.

(1) Let your child drink more water. You can add a little salt to the water and let your child drink light salt water.

(2) Let your children eat more cold fruits, such as watermelon, banana, pear, kiwi, etc. Younger children can drink the juice squeezed from these fruits.

(3) Children over 3 years old can also undergo back scraping. Apply sesame oil along both sides of the child's spine, from the neck to the waist, which is the area where the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian passes. Then use a scraping board (available in stores; if you don't have a scraping board, you can use a round, non-edge-filled porcelain spoon) to gently scrape from top to bottom. When the child has severe internal heat, you will soon see the scraped area turn red. When scraping your child, do not use heavy techniques. Just gently scrape along both sides of the spine a dozen times each. After scraping, let the child drink more warm water, which will quickly reduce the fever and relieve the sore throat.

(4) If parents do not know how to do scraping or their children are too young to do it, they can reduce fever through massage.

First rub the child's back, mainly the cervical vertebrae and between the shoulder blades, which can affect the child's chest and lungs. You don't need to rub it too many times, just rub it back and forth dozens of times until your skin becomes warm.

Then rub the child's arms, mainly the inside and outside sides from the thumbs upwards. The hand Taiyin lung meridian runs on the inner side of the thumb, connecting the lung and throat; the hand Yangming large intestine meridian runs from the index finger through the Hegu point upward on the outer side of the thumb, not only connecting the large intestine but also the lung and throat. Rub these two meridians on the child's arm dozens of times until they are warm, which is effective in treating sore throat. Then rub the thenar of the child's hand and press the Hegu point on the hand. These are the main acupoints for treating sore throat.

Finally, rub the Stomach Meridian of Foot-Yangming on the child's calf, which is the meridian that runs downward along the Zusanli point. Rub it back and forth dozens of times until it is warm. This will draw the heat downward.

The above article mainly explains the solutions to children’s red and swollen throats. If parents find that their throats are red and swollen, they can try the above methods to treat them. In addition, parents should not worry all day long, which is not good for the treatment of children's diseases. Finally, I wish your children good health and longevity!