What should I do if my three-year-old baby has a thick white tongue coating?

When it comes to baby's health, many parents are very concerned. However, this kind of care does not mean that all parents can solve their children's problems at any time. Therefore, in daily life, if they encounter a three-year-old baby with thick white tongue coating, many parents do not know how to deal with it. In order to help the baby recover quickly, let’s find out what to do if a three-year-old baby has a thick white tongue coating.

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: mostly cold syndrome, 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: it is mostly caused by cold and dampness. You should choose foods that warm the stomach and spleen, dispel cold and dampness, and the types are the same as above. Eat less sweet, greasy and greasy foods, otherwise it will cause bloating and loss of appetite.

⑶ The tongue coating is slightly yellow, or greasy: It is caused by damp-heat in the spleen and stomach or gastrointestinal stagnation, which 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 choose 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 chosen.

⑷ The tongue coating is thin or smooth, or the tongue coating partially peels off: mostly caused by gastrointestinal damp-heat or yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire, 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.

Tongue diagnosis, as an important part of "visual" diagnosis in traditional medicine, is an important means of observation in clinical practice. It understands the physiological functions and pathological changes of the human body by observing the tongue. From the perspective of modern medicine, changes in the tongue mucosa and the tongue itself are also an objective sign that can help doctors judge the condition. For some diseases, even a rough diagnosis can be made based solely on the shape and color of the tongue. The tongue of a healthy baby is usually pink, tender, smooth and clean. Therefore, it is particularly important for parents to know some simple methods of tongue diagnosis to observe their children's health status.

White tongue coating

Performance:

Thick and greasy white tongue coating indicates heavy dampness. At this time, children often suffer from loss of appetite due to internal moisture.

Solution:

At this time, parents should fast their children from eating pasta and soy products for a period of time. Because pasta and bean products may cause qi stagnation in the body. Greasy food is also taboo. You can give your child a small amount of Huoxiang Zhengqi water, or use 3 grams of Huoxiang and 30 grams of Coix seed, cook them together into soup and give it to your baby as boiled water.

Performance:

If the tongue coating is yellow and thick, it indicates that the child has severe dampness and heat. At this time, most children have symptoms such as bad breath, irritability, anorexia, particularly foul-smelling stools, and yellow urine.

Solution:

Children need to take Chinese medicine for clearing heat and dampness for a period of time.

“Observe the tongue to get a glimpse of the whole body.” Tongue diagnosis is only a preliminary inference of the disease. In clinical practice, it is necessary to refer to other methods together to correctly diagnose the disease.

Changes within the human body, such as whether the qi and blood are strong or weak, and whether the internal organs are weak or strong, can all be reflected through the tongue.

As long as parents pay attention to it regularly, the baby's health can be guaranteed.

The above is an introduction on what to do if your three-year-old baby has a thick white tongue coating. What needs to be reminded here is that three-year-old babies are still in a period of relatively low physical resistance, so they are still a high-risk group for many diseases. Abnormal tongue expression is a clinical symptom of many diseases, so parents need to pay attention to it so as to detect children's abnormalities early, regulate them early, and recover early.