The reason why the baby's tongue is yellow

It is particularly painful for an inexperienced mother to take care of a child because she knows nothing. However, babies have weak resistance and are prone to catching colds. Mothers will be particularly nervous when they see their baby's tongue coating is yellow. They don't know what's wrong with the baby. Why does the baby's tongue coating suddenly turn yellow? It may be caused by problems such as indigestion.

Thick and greasy white tongue coating usually indicates that the child's spleen and stomach are not in harmony, and indigestion causes food stagnation. At this time, drugs for strengthening the spleen and stomach should be given. Food should be light and easily digestible, such as noodle soup and porridge, and less sweet and greasy food that is difficult to digest should be eaten.

A thin yellow or thick and greasy yellow tongue coating is mostly due to insufficient spleen and stomach function in children, which leads to damp heat in the spleen and stomach or gastrointestinal stagnation, resulting in poor digestion and absorption. At the same time, children are often accompanied by symptoms such as dry mouth and tongue, irritability, dry stools or diarrhea, abdominal distension, etc. At this time, in addition to giving children spleen-strengthening and appetite-stimulating, aromatic and turbid-clearing medicines such as Chinese patent medicines Shenling Baizhu Powder and Zhishu Pills, children should also not eat or eat less greasy food, especially big fish and meat, eat less puffed snacks, melon seeds, walnuts and other pointed fruits with high calorie content, pay attention to drink plenty of water, eat a light diet, and it is best not to eat cold food.

Geographic tongue refers to the situation where a child's tongue has a piece of white coating and a piece of tongue texture, which is mottled and looks like the winding borders on a map. It is called "geographic tongue". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is mostly due to "insufficient qi and yin in the stomach, with both emptiness and fullness", that is, heat accumulation in the spleen and stomach or indigestion. It also indicates that the child is lacking in trace elements in the body, such as zinc deficiency.

The color of moldy moss is red with black and yellow, like moldy beans, so it is called "moldy moss". This is a sign of food stagnation in the child's body, which has turned into heat over time. The child should be given treatment to clear heat and dampness, and eat a light diet.

Children's tongue coating often changes color due to taking medicine or eating food. For example, taking Chinese medicine, olives, black plums, iron supplements, etc. can make the tongue coating black, and eating milk, soy milk, oranges, egg yolks, persimmons, etc. can make the tongue coating dyed. This is normal and there is no need to panic. Chinese early childhood education experts say that the first two types of abnormal tongue coating are more common clinically, and children mostly suffer from digestive system diseases. In addition to symptomatic treatment, parents should mainly change their children's diet structure appropriately, eat more easily digestible and light foods, and slowly regulate their body.

According to the above statements, we know that the baby's yellow tongue coating may be due to body heat. Mothers do not need to worry too much. Mothers can judge the baby's recent physical condition based on the changes in the color of the baby's tongue coating. If the baby's tongue coating is yellow, then let the baby drink more water and eat more fruits. I hope the baby grows up healthy and happy.