What to do if your baby has a white tongue

Many parents of newly born babies who are currently breastfeeding will find that their children’s tongue coating is always white, and some babies have particularly white tongue coating. So these mothers who are currently breastfeeding should look for the reasons in themselves. This is because in daily life, they do not pay attention to their diet and eat too much salty food.

Countermeasures: Physical cooling and drinking more water

Li Jian pointed out that if the baby is found to have a fever at this time, physical cooling should be carried out in time. If the temperature is too high or the fever persists, seek medical attention immediately. In addition, pay attention to giving your baby more boiled water and eating less or no greasy food. Li Jian suggested that you can buy fresh reed roots or dried reed roots, chrysanthemums, and golden lotus flowers and boil them in water for your baby to drink frequently.

Symptom 2: Thick and sticky yellow-white tongue coating

If you can see a thick layer of yellow-white dirt on the baby's tongue, the tongue coating is thick and sticky and not easy to scrape off, and there is a sour and smelly smell in the mouth, this situation is probably caused by overeating, or eating too much greasy food, and poor spleen and stomach digestion function. People call it "food accumulation."

Countermeasure: Eat light food to improve digestion

It is pointed out that if the baby has the above condition, it is likely that he has eaten too much and is too full, resulting in digestive disorder. At this time, it should be noted that when the baby has this kind of tongue coating, the diet should be relatively light. Once the baby has food accumulation, you can take some digestive medicines or foods such as hawthorn according to the specific situation. You can also boil 15g of chicken gizzard lining and 30g of hawthorn in water and take it, one dose per day. If the baby has dry stools and obvious abdominal distension, you can boil 6g of radish seeds, 6g of cassia seeds, and 10g of trichosanthes kirilowii in water and drink it, which can also help with digestion and relieve constipation.

Symptom 3: Pale tongue, geographic tongue

Sometimes, when mothers look at their baby's tongue, they will find that the baby's tongue is like a map: the tongue is pale white, the tongue coating has one or more peelings, and the edges of the peelings are high and protruding like a frame, shaped like a map. Your baby may even experience discomfort or mild pain on his tongue when eating hot foods.

Countermeasure: Avoid spicy food and eat more fruits

The appearance of geographic tongue in babies is mostly due to digestive dysfunction, or the baby has been ill for a long time, which has damaged both the Qi and Yin in the body. Babies with geographic tongue tend to be picky eaters, have a partial diet, love cold drinks, have unstable sleep, kick off the quilt, and toss and turn when they sleep. Smaller babies are prone to crying, hot flashes and sweating, have a sallow and dull complexion, are weak and thin, are afraid of cold, and have hot palms.

Before breastfeeding your child, you should pay attention to your diet and keep it light. Eating too greasy food will inevitably cause you to get angry and cause the milk to be too salty, causing the baby's tongue to become white.