What is the cause of thick tongue coating in infants and young children?

Many infants and young children have thick tongue coating. This symptom will affect the child's health. Therefore, many parents, in order not to affect their children's health, want to fully understand the cause of thick tongue coating in infants and young children. The following content provides a specific answer, and parents can fully understand it.

Studies have shown that the tongue coating is a layer of dirt spread on the tongue. In fact, under normal circumstances, the tongue coating of ordinary people will be whitish, but it is usually thin. If the tongue coating is thick and white, it means that your gastrointestinal tract has been diseased. Due to the strength of the patient's stomach qi and the cold or heat of the body, various pathological tongue coatings can be formed. Different tongue coating symptoms reflect different gastrointestinal diseases.

In addition to being seen in healthy people, white tongue coating is often seen in mild illnesses, the initial onset of external symptoms, and the recovery stage of the disease. Because the internal pathological changes in the machine are not obvious, the changes in the tongue coating are close to the normal thin white tongue coating.

Classification of tongue coating

Yellow tongue coating: generally indicates heat syndrome, that is, stomach heat occurs. If the tongue coating is thin, yellow, thick and dry, it means that the internal heat is excessive and the body fluids are damaged. The tongue coating is yellow, dry and prickly, and there are cracks on the tongue, which indicates that the internal heat is extremely severe, the body fluids are severely damaged, and the internal organs are extremely hot. The tongue coating is thick and greasy, which is usually caused by phlegm heat, food accumulation or internal damp heat. The tongue coating is yellow, smooth and moist, which is a sign of yang deficiency.

Black tongue coating: People with gastrointestinal problems will have a thick and greasy tongue coating, which starts out white and gradually turns yellow or black. In addition, clinical findings show that some chronic diseases, such as uremia and malignant tumors, will also cause black tongue coating when the condition worsens. This is a sign of a serious illness and one should go to the hospital to see a doctor in time.

White coating: A normal tongue coating is thin, white and moist. The tongue coating is thin, white and overly smooth, which is generally seen in superficial symptoms and cold syndromes. If the tongue coating is thick, white and dry, it means that there is a lesion in the gastrointestinal tract, which is often seen in various symptoms of gastritis, enteritis and bad breath. At the same time, thick white tongue coating is also a warning of gastrointestinal metaplasia, and the severity of intestinal metaplasia is directly related to gastric cancer.

Thick moss: The thickness of the moss is determined by whether the bottom is visible or not. If the tongue cannot be seen through the coating, it is called thick coating. If you have symptoms of gastrointestinal disease, the appearance of thick tongue coating indicates that the condition is already serious and you need to be hospitalized for treatment in time.

Thick white tongue coating is just a symptom. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is closely related to stomach fire. Most cases of thick white tongue coating are caused by diseases in the stomach, which can be harmful to the body if not treated in time:

1. It causes unpleasant odor in the mouth and even bad breath.

2. It will affect people’s appetite and thus affect digestive function.

3. It will cause stomach heat, and the accumulated heat will lead to facial acne.

Thick tongue coating in infants and young children can be harmful to the child's health. Therefore, after fully understanding the cause of the disease, in order not to affect the child's health, comprehensive treatment must be carried out as soon as possible. Only through comprehensive treatment can your child pass the treatment as soon as possible, the disease can be recovered as soon as possible, and the healthy growth of the child can be guaranteed.