What causes white tongue coating in six-month-old babies?

The health of babies at 6 months old is a particularly important stage. So when the baby has white tongue coating at 6 months old, parents are particularly worried that their baby has a disease. Therefore, they want to fully understand the causes of white tongue coating in 6-month-old babies. The following content provides specific answers so that you can fully understand it.

The baby's tongue coating is white when he is just 6 months old, and sometimes he has snot-like or dehydrated stools. These two situations are the baby's white tongue coating, and Chinese and Western medicine have different explanations for it. Chinese medicine practitioners will determine whether the child’s spleen and stomach are in disharmony by looking at the color and size of the white stains on the tongue coating. Western medicine generally believes that the thick tongue coating on a child's tongue is a window to the digestive tract and is directly related to the child's digestive system. A child's white tongue coating may indicate indigestion or enteritis. Both Chinese and Western medicine believe that white tongue coating is a sign of gastrointestinal disease.

Baby's tongue is white

Babies sometimes have snot-like or glue-like substances in their stools, which is medically called mucus stools. It is a manifestation of pediatric enteritis. The pathogens include various types of Escherichia coli, Campylobacter jejuni, Salmonella typhimurium, etc. The severity of this type of enteritis varies. Most patients do not have fever, and the stool is mainly mucus, while a few have bloody stools. It is sometimes accompanied by symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, poor appetite, and oliguria. You must take your baby to see a doctor and ask the doctor to give timely and appropriate treatment.

Don't worry, this is normal! This is caused by the heat in the baby's stomach. If you don't feed your baby anything else on a regular basis, then it's a problem with your milk. In addition, the weather is getting hotter, and babies tend to have thin stools after drinking hot milk. If you come back from going out, you should wait for more than half an hour before feeding your baby. If the weather is too hot, you should cover your breasts with a warm towel before feeding your baby. Try to feed him less often and at longer intervals. Feed him an egg yolk at noon. Don’t forget to let your baby drink more water. It would be better if you add a little honey to the water. If necessary, you can go to the hospital for a check-up.

The above content specifically introduces the causes of white tongue coating in 6-month-old babies. After a comprehensive understanding, as a parent, you must take your child to a trustworthy hospital as soon as possible for a comprehensive examination. After a comprehensive examination and confirmation of the condition, you should receive effective treatment as soon as possible to cure your baby's white tongue coating and recover as soon as possible through treatment.