What to do if your baby has thick white tongue coating

Babies have low body resistance and need special care to avoid damage to their health. However, due to various reasons, babies will still show many abnormal symptoms, and parents need to pay special attention at this time. So, what is the reason for thick white tongue coating in babies? How to regulate it? This is what many mothers want to know, so let us find out what to do if the baby has a thick white tongue coating.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the tongue directly or indirectly connects to the essence of many internal organs through the meridians to make them flexible, so the pathological changes of the internal organs can often be reflected in the tongue. Observing the tongue quality and tongue coating is one of the main methods of diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine.

If parents can regularly observe changes in their children's tongue coating and adjust their diet in time, they can prevent problems before they occur. The tongue of a normal child should be soft, move freely, be light red in color, and have a thin coating of moderate dryness and wetness on the surface. Once you become ill, the tongue quality and tongue coating will change accordingly. When the following changes occur, you should adjust your diet in time and carefully observe whether you are ill and whether you need to go to the hospital for treatment.

⑴ Pale tongue with thin white coating

Most of them are cold symptoms, which are seen in the early stage of a cold. You can choose a warm diet, such as red dates and glutinous rice porridge, etc. Soft food and soup are preferred. Side dishes include light and warm beef soup, mutton soup, egg drop soup, carrots, onions, brown sugar, etc., and use vinegar and ginger as seasonings. Fruits you can eat include apples, tangerines, etc. Eat less cold foods, such as cold vegetables, cucumbers, winter melons, mung bean sprouts, crabs, snails, duck eggs, etc. Avoid cold drinks.

⑵ The tongue coating is white and greasy, or thick and greasy

Most of them are caused by cold and dampness, so you should choose foods that warm the stomach and spleen, dispel cold and dampness, the types are the same as above. Eat less sweet, greasy and greasy foods, otherwise it will cause bloating and loss of appetite.

⑶The tongue coating is slightly yellow or greasy

It is caused by damp-heat in the spleen and stomach or gastrointestinal stagnation, and is seen in infection, fever or digestive dysfunction, and is often accompanied by symptoms such as dry mouth, irritability, and dry stools. The diet should include foods that clear heat and dampness, such as white radish, tomato, loofah, lotus root powder, mung bean or coix seed porridge, and fruits such as hawthorn and pear can be used.

⑷ The tongue coating is thin or smooth without coating, or the tongue coating partially peels off

It is mostly caused by gastrointestinal damp-heat or yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire, and is seen in parasitic diseases or chronic wasting diseases. You can choose foods such as lily soup, pear, watermelon, etc. that have the effects of nourishing yin and reducing fire, promoting fluid production and relieving cough. Avoid eating spicy and warm foods such as lamb, garlic, onion, etc.

The above is an introduction on what to do if your baby has thick white tongue coating. It should be noted here that the appearance of thick white tongue coating in infants is mostly related to milk powder and breast milk. If the baby is breastfed, the mother needs to make adjustments to the diet after the baby's tongue coating appears, in order to help the child recover health as soon as possible.