What to do if your baby has cold limbs

For every parent, once the baby has health problems, they will always be particularly worried and afraid. Many parents have encountered symptoms such as cold limbs in their babies. They often don’t know whether the baby is wearing too few clothes or has a cold or is sick. They don’t know whether such symptoms are normal and how to effectively relieve the symptoms for the baby. If we want to relieve such symptoms in time, we must grasp the causes. Let’s learn about what to do if the baby has cold limbs.

What to do if your baby has cold limbs

Children's cold hands and feet are mostly caused by poor blood circulation. Poor blood circulation in the human body will lead to insufficient blood supply to the extremities, resulting in cold hands and feet. According to TCM theory, children with frequently cold hands and feet have a yang deficiency, which is caused by insufficient qi, blood, yin and yang.

Yang Qi deficiency, beware of cold evil entering the body

Children with cold hands and feet always make people worry, as people feel that they have weak constitutions and insufficient yang energy, and they will get sick if they catch a cold accidentally. Although a baby's cold hands and feet is not a serious matter, parents should still pay more attention to it.

Children with cold hands and feet due to Yang Qi deficiency have weak resistance and are prone to repeated illnesses. Especially in winter, cold evil may enter the body, causing children to suffer from upper respiratory tract infections, pneumonia and other respiratory diseases, and they may also suffer from infectious and immune diseases.

In addition, if the baby's hands are frozen in winter, he may develop frostbite and other skin problems.

The room temperature is about 20℃

What should I do if my baby has cold hands and feet? Should we make them wear more clothes and cover themselves more tightly? When at home, should you turn on the electric blanket or air conditioner to prevent your baby from catching a cold?

In fact, if parents cover their children too tightly, it can easily cause illness. Wen Jiangge said that the most suitable room temperature for children is around 20℃. If the temperature is too high, children will sweat frequently and it is easy to cause illness. There is also a saying, "Children's illness caused by cold is easy to cure, but illness caused by heat is difficult to cure."

So, how to relieve the condition of cold hands and feet of babies?

Experts suggest that parents can do some hand rubbing exercises to promote blood circulation for their children, or take their children to the hospital for pediatric massage, or take some medicines to dredge the meridians and warm up the yang energy.

Internal heat is divided into real heat and false heat

Contrary to the symptoms of cold hands and feet, many babies' hands and feet are always warm, like small heaters.

It is very common nowadays for children to have hot hands and feet, which is mostly related to internal heat. Internal heat in children can be divided into real heat and false heat.

So, how do we tell whether the baby has real heat or false heat?

Children with excessive heat often suffer from getting angry easily and are often thirsty and have dry throat. Excessive heat can be divided into stomach heat, liver heat, etc. Children with deficiency-heat usually have flushed faces, hot palms and soles of feet. They often kick off the quilt when they sleep at night and always want to go barefoot.

Internal heat can also cause disease

"My baby's hands and feet are always warm. Is this a sign of good physique? Can internal heat cause disease?" asked parent Xu Ming. #p#Page Title#e#

In fact, parents should also pay more attention to children with internal heat. Experts analyze that children with real heat usually have better physical constitutions, but their internal heat is strong, and they are prone to symptoms of mouth and tongue ulcers. If the stomach is overheated, symptoms such as bad breath, nausea, dry stools, and urge to vomit may occur.

Children with deficiency-heat also have weaker constitutions. It is very likely that during the recovery period of respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, the remaining evil will cause deficiency-heat constitution. Children with deficiency-heat constitution are prone to diseases such as nephritis and diarrhea.

You can press the child's Yongquan acupoint

How should babies with internal heat improve their symptoms?

Since most of these babies like to go barefoot and kick the quilt when sleeping, they always feel that they are very hot. Therefore, keeping them warm in winter is also very important. Parents should never neglect keeping their children warm just because their hands and feet are always hot. Parents should make sure their babies wear gloves and cotton shoes when going out. Some babies sweat easily on the soles of their feet, which sometimes soaks their socks. Parents should change their socks frequently.

In addition, experts said that parents can press the Yongquan acupoint on the soles of their children's feet, which has the effect of guiding fire back to the origin and is more beneficial for children with internal heat.

The above is an introduction to what to do if your baby has cold limbs. We know that we must observe the baby carefully when taking care of the baby. When problems arise, we must consult a doctor in time and not blindly use medication for the baby. In addition, we should take the baby outdoors to exercise and bask in the sun more often, which can also improve the body's immunity.