Six-month-old baby's tongue is white

When Chinese medicine doctors treat patients, they pay the most attention to observation, auscultation, questioning and palpation. When they observe patients, they usually look at the patient's tongue coating, because the tongue coating of a normal person is a thin layer of white or pink, and after getting sick, the color of the tongue coating will change and become thicker. Especially for some babies, babies around six months old usually have white tongue coating, so what is the reason for the white tongue coating of six months old babies?

What is the reason for the baby's white tongue coating?

1. It may be a cold.

A white tongue coating indicates that there is cold in the body. Whether you have eaten cold food or caught a cold, the tongue coating will turn white, and sometimes it will be accompanied by symptoms such as coughing and runny nose.

Nursing methods: Babies with white tongue coating should eat less cold and cool foods on a daily basis to reduce irritation to the stomach; if the white tongue coating is thick and greasy and the child is obese, he should control his diet, eat more fresh vegetables, fruits and crude fiber foods, yam, coix seed, hawthorn, etc. have good effects of strengthening the spleen and removing dampness, and eat foods high in fat and sugar; control weight. If the yellow-white tongue coating is thick and sticky, you should eat a light diet to improve your stomach and digestion.

2. The baby is getting angry

The white coating on the baby's tongue is related to getting a sore throat, especially for infants and young children who eat milk powder. Formula milk has a certain heatiness. Mothers should pay attention to choosing light and non-irritating ones. It is best to ask people around you which brand is more water-soluble and not easy to clump when making milk. Basically, it will be OK.

Nursing methods: In short, children get angry mainly because of lack of water. If they are eating milk powder or have added complementary foods, it is best to feed the baby with water once between every two meals, about 20ml, 150-200ml a day. In addition, often massage the baby's stomach clockwise to promote gastrointestinal motility, which will also relieve a lot.

3. Milk stains left by babies

For babies who are still drinking milk, residual milk stains from feeding are one of the reasons why the baby's tongue coating becomes white. This situation will gradually disappear on its own. If the mother is worried, she can use a soft wipe to gently wipe the baby a few times after each feeding.

Nursing methods: It is recommended to give the baby some warm water to rinse the mouth after drinking milk, and wipe the baby's tongue with soft gauze every day. You can wrap the gauze around a toothpick or your index finger to clean your baby, and be gentle.

4. Indigestion

If the baby's tongue coating is white or thick with a sour and rotten taste, these are signs that the baby has food accumulation and indigestion.

Nursing methods: If your baby has food accumulation and indigestion, you can try the live bacteria No. 1 Bifidobacterium adolescentis. Functional dyspepsia is accompanied by gastrointestinal dysfunction and intestinal flora imbalance. Adequate supplementation of bifidobacteria and lactic acid bacteria can help improve gastrointestinal dysfunction, enhance gastrointestinal digestion and absorption function, regulate intestinal group structure, inhibit intestinal corruption, and form a "biofilm barrier" on the surface of gastrointestinal mucosa to prevent toxins from entering the internal organs, enhance gastrointestinal motility, and accelerate gastric emptying and the excretion of intestinal waste.

5. Breastfeeding is related to the mother's diet

If the baby is breastfed, the mother's diet is greasy and irritating, which will be passed to the baby through breast milk, causing the baby's tongue to become white. Breastfeeding mothers should eat light, easily digestible food. Eat more vegetables and fruits.

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