What to do if your child has a thick tongue coating

The tongue of a healthy baby is generally pink, tender, smooth and clean. Therefore, it is particularly important for parents to observe the health of their children by observing the tongue coating. The tongue coating is a barometer of the child's health. Therefore, mothers should pay special attention to the growing baby's condition. This is the right choice and the right way for the baby's healthy growth. Today we will take a look at what is going on with a thick tongue coating on a child.

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Cold and fever

When a baby has a cold and fever, the first symptoms are a shortened tongue, red tongue that often sticks out of the mouth, less tongue coating, or tongue coating that is sparse and dry. If the fever is high and the tongue is crimson, it means that the baby is seriously suffering from heat damage and is losing body fluids, so the baby will often take the initiative to ask for water. If accompanied by dry stool, there will often be a foul odor in the mouth. This situation often occurs in the early stages of some upper respiratory tract infections or infectious diseases, and mothers should pay attention to it. Babies with severe fever may have thick red thorns on their tongue, just like the bayberries on the market. This type of bayberry tongue is more common in babies with scarlet fever or Kawasaki disease.

Solution:

It is important to promptly treat the primary disease that causes the baby's fever, and perform physical cooling or oral antipyretic drugs in a timely manner.

Make sure your baby drinks more boiled water and eats less greasy food and sweet fruits.

You can buy fresh or dried reed roots and boil them in water for your baby to drink.

Don't like eating

Some babies are good eaters and will eat a lot when they see their favorite food. When parents or grandparents see the baby eating a lot, instead of dissuading the baby, they will be very happy and keep encouraging the baby to eat more. This will cause the baby to eat too much, be too full, and disrupt his digestive function. Often on the second day, the baby may not like to eat. Some babies may experience abdominal bloating and pain. In severe cases, they may vomit. The vomit is the undigested food eaten the day before and has a sour smell.

Younger babies may suffer from diarrhea due to food accumulation. If you observe the baby's tongue at this time, you can see a thick layer of yellow-white dirt on the tongue. The tongue coating is thick and sticky and not easy to scrape off. At the same time, there will be a sour and smelly smell in the mouth. This situation is mostly caused by overeating, eating greasy food, and poor spleen and stomach digestion function.

Solution:

When your baby has this kind of tongue coating, the diet should be lighter. For babies with a particularly good appetite, they should be reminded to eat an appropriate amount of each meal so that the gastrointestinal tract can get sufficient rest.

If your baby has milk and food stagnation, you can choose to use Chinese patent medicines such as "Baohe Pills", "Jianwei Xiaoshi Tablets" or "Wang's Baochi Pills" to help digest food and ensure smooth bowel movements.

You can use 15g of chicken gizzard lining, 10g of Poria cocos, and 30g of hawthorn to boil water and take it, one dose per day.

If the baby's stool is dry and there is obvious abdominal distension, you can boil 15g of stir-fried Erchou and 15g of raw Astragalus in water and drink it, which can also help with digestion and relieve constipation.

Tongue is like a map

Geographic tongue refers to a pale tongue with one or more peeling areas of tongue coating. The edges of the peeling areas are high and protruding like a frame, shaped like a map. The patient often experiences discomfort or slight pain when eating hot porridge. Geographic tongue is generally seen in digestive dysfunction, or the baby has been ill for a long time, which causes damage to 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.

Solution:

Eat more fresh fruits and fresh, dark green or red vegetables, and be careful to avoid fried, smoked, grilled, greasy and spicy foods.

You can use appropriate amounts of longan meat, yam, white lentils, red dates, coix seed and millet to cook porridge for your baby. The effect will be better if it is consumed together with animal liver.

If the baby has a pale complexion, a bad temper, sweats a lot, and has dry stools, it is mostly due to damage to both the Qi and Yin. You can use appropriate amounts of lily, lotus seeds, wolfberries, and raw astragalus to make soup and drink it, which will improve the geographic tongue.

Tongue is smooth and has no coating

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 frequent drinking, or abdominal distension.

Solution:

For babies with mirror-red tongue, do not assume that they are weak and give them strong supplements or feed them too much fatty and greasy food. You should eat more soy milk or fresh and easily digestible vegetables, such as shiitake mushrooms, cucumbers, tomatoes, white radishes, etc.

You can squeeze juice from watermelon, apple, pear, and water chestnut to drink, or cook porridge with yam, lotus seeds, and lily for your baby in the morning and evening, which will also have a very good effect.

In summer, beware of sores on your baby's tongue

In the hot summer, when the temperature is high, if the baby drinks less water or is infected with viruses or bacteria, it will cause mouth and tongue ulcers. The prominent symptoms are red tongue, red tip of tongue, thick yellow tongue coating, white ulcers on the edge or surface of the tongue, accompanied by bad breath and drooling. At the same time, most babies also have symptoms such as persistent fever, irritability and crying, restless sleep at night, little and yellow urine, and dry stools.

At this time, mothers must pay more attention to the baby's oral hygiene. Clean your baby's mouth with saline solution every day, make sure to give your baby more boiled water, and eat less greasy food or overly sweet fruits. In addition, mothers can also go to the pharmacy to buy some fresh or dried reed roots for their babies, take them home, add appropriate amount of chrysanthemum or light bamboo leaves, boil them in water and drink them as tea. If there are herpes or ulcers on the lingula, you can apply tin powder in the mouth, or apply a small amount of smecta on the ulcer on the lingula. It can protect the wound surface and relieve pain, and help the ulcer on the lingula heal sooner.

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1. Take out the flesh of a watermelon, remove the seeds, and cut into small strips. After drying in the sun until half dry, add sugar as appropriate to marinate, and then dry in the sun again. When using, take an appropriate amount of melon strips and add sugar to boil the juice. Drink it regularly. It is suitable for babies with heat accumulation in the heart and spleen and sores in the mouth and tongue.

2. Take appropriate amounts of pig blood and tofu, put them into boiling water and cook them, cut them into pieces, add some sesame oil and salt and feed them to your baby. Eating them regularly can prevent oral ulcers.

3. You can use 50g of watermelon rind and 50g of fresh reed root to boil water and feed the baby frequently. This is especially suitable for babies with fever.

4. You can use 10 grams of Polygonatum odoratum, 10 grams of Adenophora sibiricum, 10 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, 10 grams of Phaseolus lentiscus, and 6 grams of raw licorice, decoct them in water and feed them to the baby. It will help clear the residual heat when the baby's fever subsides.

5. Take 10 drops of sesame oil, dissolve it in 5-10 ml of saline, and drop it into the baby's mouth more than ten times a day, 4-5 drops each time. It is suitable for babies with white flakes in their mouths and who are restless.

Special note: Sometimes a baby's strange tongue coating is normal

1. It is normal for a newborn to have a red tongue without coating and for a suckling baby to have a milky white tongue coating. Mothers should not be too nervous and think that it is caused by disease.

2. Some babies' tongue coating will often change color after taking certain medicines or foods. For example, the tongue coating may turn red after eating red candy, turn black after eating bayberry or olives, and turn thick yellow after drinking orange juice or egg yolk. These are not pathological coatings. Generally speaking, the color of dyed tongue coating is brighter and shallow, while diseased tongue coating is not easy to fade away. You can use this point to distinguish them. Never mistake normal tongue coating for diseased tongue coating and cause a false alarm.

Based on the above statements, we know that the thickening of the child's tongue coating may be due to the recent hot diet. Mothers do not need to worry too much, just treat it with a normal attitude. You can give the baby more herbal tea to reduce heat, or let the baby drink more water. The healthy growth of the baby is the wish of mothers, so always observe the baby's physical condition.