What to do if your child's hands and feet are hot

Some children are relatively weak and their physical fitness cannot keep up, so they will show symptoms of illness such as hot hands and feet. We cannot take treatment measures based solely on the patient's symptoms. Some children are too weak to be treated with medication. Even if you have just recovered from a serious illness and your physical condition may need conditioning, it is normal to have fever in your hands and feet for a short period of time.

The reasons are mostly due to weak constitution, or lack of conditioning after a serious illness or fever, resulting in damage to yin and blood, and failure to restore vital energy. These children often show symptoms such as hot palms and soles, emaciation, listlessness, cough with little sputum, dizziness, tinnitus, dry mouth and tongue, hot flashes in the afternoon, red cheeks, night sweats, frequent urination, and constipation. Fever in the palms and soles of children is most often caused by malnutrition and spleen deficiency.

The palms and soles of children's hands and feet are hot because of damp heat accumulation in the body. However, unlike adults, children's damp heat often comes from food. Children have weak spleen and stomach, and often suffer from indigestion, which generates damp heat when accumulated in the body. Therefore, the treatment is mainly for spleen and stomach indigestion, and the damp heat is also cleared.

The prescription that traditional Chinese medicine recommends is to boil 5 grams each of fried mountain residue, fried malt, fried barley sprouts, and fried raisin seeds in water, and take 1-2 tablets of Shugan Tablets (ground into powder) after meals. Boil 2 grams each of honeysuckle and caraway seeds in water and drink it. While using medication, you should also pay attention to supplementing a certain amount of nutritious food, allowing children to get more sun and breathe fresh air to promote physical recovery.

When dealing with the symptom of hot palms and soles of children, some parents will be too superstitious about Western medicine. In order to see quick results, they will give their babies large amounts of antibiotics and other drugs that are not suitable for babies. This is very incorrect. For some diseases that can be treated with Chinese medicine, we recommend using the conditioning and health care methods introduced above, which is more beneficial to the health of children.

When we are taking care of children and they have symptoms of hot hands and feet, we should let them drink more water to replenish their bodies with water. The environment in which the child lives must be well ventilated, and he cannot stay in a closed space for too long, otherwise it will have a certain impact on the child's physical recovery. It is relatively mild to treat this disease through diet therapy.