How to deal with hot palms and soles of children

In daily life, when children have symptoms such as hot palms and soles, if parents do not understand the causes of these symptoms and use the correct methods to treat the children in time, it will not only delay the children's recovery but may even have serious consequences. Therefore, parents should properly understand the causes and coping methods of hot palms and soles of children. Today this article will introduce to parents the reasons why children’s palms and soles are hot.

In traditional Chinese medicine, the symptom of hot palms and soles of children is believed to be due to blood deficiency and yin deficiency in the baby, which causes the hot hands and feet.

The reasons are mostly due to weak constitution, or lack of conditioning after a serious illness or fever, resulting in damage to yin and blood, and failure to restore vital energy. These children often show symptoms such as hot palms and soles, emaciation, listlessness, cough with little sputum, dizziness, tinnitus, dry mouth and tongue, hot flashes in the afternoon, red cheeks, night sweats, frequent urination, and constipation. Fever in the palms and soles of children is most often caused by malnutrition and spleen deficiency.

The palms and soles of children's hands and feet are hot because of damp heat accumulation in the body. However, unlike adults, children's damp heat often comes from food. Children have weak spleen and stomach, and often suffer from indigestion, which generates damp heat when accumulated in the body. Therefore, the treatment is mainly for spleen and stomach indigestion, and the damp heat is also cleared.

The prescription that traditional Chinese medicine recommends is to boil 5 grams each of fried mountain residue, fried malt, fried barley sprouts, and fried raisin seeds in water, and take 1-2 tablets of Shugan Tablets (crushed into powder) after meals. Boil 2 grams each of honeysuckle and caraway seeds in water and drink it. While using medication, you should also pay attention to supplementing a certain amount of nutritious food, allowing children to get more sun and breathe fresh air to promote physical recovery.

When dealing with the symptom of hot palms and soles of children, some parents will be too superstitious about Western medicine. In order to see quick results, they will give their babies large amounts of antibiotics and other drugs that are not suitable for babies. This is very incorrect. For some diseases that can be treated with Chinese medicine, we recommend using the conditioning and health care methods introduced above, which is more beneficial to the health of children.