What should I do if my baby's tongue is thick and yellow?

In life, more and more babies have thick and yellow tongue coating, and this disease is often ignored. In today's society, the tongue is the most common organ in our human body. The tongue is our language organ, which allows people to feel the sour, sweet, bitter and spicy taste of food. When there is something unusual in your body, you can also discover it by observing the condition of your tongue. Under normal circumstances, the baby's tongue is soft, can move freely, is light red in color, and is covered with a thin layer of white fur with evenly distributed particles and moderate dryness and wetness. But if the baby's tongue coating is thick and yellow, it means that the baby is unwell. What is this disease? What is the cause? What should I do?

1. The baby's yellowish-white tongue coating is thick and sticky

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."

Eat light food to help digestion

If your baby experiences the above symptoms, it is likely that he has eaten too much or is too full, causing digestive dysfunction. 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.

2. The baby has less tongue coating and is red

A normal and healthy baby's tongue should be of moderate size, soft, light pink and moist, able to flex and move freely, speak clearly, and have a thin coating of moderate dryness and wetness on the surface of the tongue, and no odor in the mouth. Once the baby becomes sick, the tongue quality and tongue coating will change accordingly. Director Li of the Traditional Medicine Department of the Prevention and Treatment Center of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine pointed out that if a baby has a cold and fever, the first symptom is a red tongue with a slightly thick yellow-white tongue coating. If the body temperature is high, the tongue is crimson and the tongue coating is dry, it means that the baby has severe heat and is losing body fluids. Fever is often accompanied by dry stools, and babies often have a stronger odor in their mouth. This situation usually indicates that the baby has severe internal heat, and the mother should pay attention to it. In babies with severe fever, thick red thorns can sometimes be seen on their tongues.

Physical cooling, drink more water

If you find that your baby has 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. At this time, 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.

3. Baby's tongue is smooth and mirror-like red

Some babies who often have fever, repeated colds, poor appetite or chronic diarrhea will have a tongue that is crimson like fresh meat, with all the tongue coating falling off and the tongue surface as smooth as a mirror. This is medically called a mirror red tongue. Babies with mirror tongue often have symptoms such as loss of appetite, dry mouth and polydipsia, or abdominal distension.

Drink more soy milk and eat more vegetables

For babies with mirror-like red tongue, do not assume that they are weak and give them large amounts of supplements or greasy food. This is mostly caused by spleen and stomach yin deficiency. You should eat more soy milk or fresh and easily digestible vegetables, such as cucumbers, tomatoes, white radishes, etc. You can also squeeze watermelon, apples, pears, and water chestnuts into juice and drink it, or cook porridge with yam, lotus seeds, and lilies for your baby in the morning and evening.

4. Baby's tongue is pale and has 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.

The baby's tongue coating is thick and yellow, so 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.

After a preliminary understanding of why the baby's tongue coating turns yellow, parents need to be reminded that if they find that the baby with white tongue coating has a poor appetite, is much lighter than babies of the same age, and is stunted, they should take preventive measures in time. I hope this will be helpful to everyone.