What to do if your one-year-old baby has a white tongue coating

The color of the tongue coating has a great relationship with the physical condition. Especially in traditional Chinese medicine, which emphasizes observation, auscultation, questioning and palpation, one of the most important aspects is checking the patient's tongue coating. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the color of the tongue coating is closely related to the various organs of the body, and different colors represent problems in different places. The tongue coating of a healthy baby is pink and looks very comfortable. But what happens if a one-year-old baby has a white tongue coating and what measures should be taken?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that there are many factors that cause children's tongue coating to become thick and white. For example, getting a fever is also an important cause of the thick and white tongue coating. Therefore, we should be in a good mood every day to avoid children getting angry. Children can be given more heat-clearing and detoxifying foods, such as white radish, lotus root, mung bean, hawthorn, etc. Children should be given more vegetables and fruits every day, and they must be given enough water. If the problem of thick white tongue coating is still very serious, then the following can be used:

Job's tears: It has the effect of clearing away heat and removing dampness. It can be cooked into porridge with rock sugar and given to children as a snack.

Light bamboo leaves: Refresh the mind and promote urination. They can relieve the discomfort of urination caused by getting angry. At the same time, light bamboo leaves do not only clear away internal heat, but can also regulate the spleen, stomach and intestines of the baby. You can use light bamboo leaves to make water for your child to drink on a daily basis.

Rice sprouts: They can help digestion, relieve children’s problems with food accumulation and fever caused by indigestion, and help children defecate easily and excrete toxins from the body.

In short, if the child's tongue coating is thick and greasy, or is relatively thick but also has a white problem, then under normal circumstances it means that the baby's body is "hot". Most babies with thick tongue coating will also have bad breath, constipation, excessive eye discharge, indigestion, irritability, crying at night and other problems. At this time, mothers need targeted conditioning.

We know that the white coating on the baby's tongue is largely caused by getting angry, so in daily life, parents should always prepare some medicines to clear away heat and reduce internal heat, cultivate good sleeping habits for the baby, and ensure that the baby can get enough sleep every day. Especially in summer, we must pay attention to cooling down, reducing internal heat and maintaining sleep. If the baby's internal heat is very serious, be sure to take the baby to the hospital for examination in time to avoid delaying the disease.