How to treat stomach heat in children

What we often call stomach heat is actually stomach fire, which is a concept in traditional Chinese medicine. Anyone may experience stomach fire. Because children are young and have poor body resistance, they are prone to stomach fire, which can manifest as different symptoms such as swollen and painful gums, thirst, toothache, etc. The treatment mainly focuses on conditioning, and recovery is quick with proper methods. So, how to regulate stomach heat in children? Let’s take a look below.

1. How to treat children's excessive stomach fire

Children's diet should be light and nutritionally balanced. The main consideration is that it is caused by getting angry. At present, you can take anti-inflammatory drugs for treatment. Secondly, drink more water and eat a light diet without eating irritating foods. You can consider dietary therapy to reduce internal heat, boil pears with sugar water and eat the juice and flesh. You can also peel the fresh pear, split it open and remove the core, add appropriate amount of rock sugar, put it in a pot and steam it until soft and then you can eat it. Pay attention to cleanliness and hygiene at ordinary times. At the same time, for some children with strong stomach fire, they can drink more water. Drinking water can not only solve the problem of stomach fire, but also solve many other problems.

2. Several ways to reduce your stomach fire

Radish conditioning treatment. It has obvious antibacterial effect. According to traditional Chinese medicine, radish juice is spicy, sweet and cool in nature and belongs to the lung and stomach meridians. People with stomach fire can drink radish juice for conditioning treatment.

Increase body surface heat dissipation. Scraping when suffering from heatstroke can promote the dilation of capillaries, force the dissipation of heat and relieve discomfort.

Eat a light diet. High-calorie foods will cause internal heat. When you have internal heat, you should not eat too much low-water food, such as fried foods, biscuits, peanuts and other nuts. Instead, you should focus on low-calorie foods such as vegetables and clear soup.

Drink mung bean porridge to reduce stomach heat. Symptoms: There are two types of deficiency and excess. Deficiency fire is manifested by mild cough, small amount of food intake, constipation, abdominal distension, red tongue and little coating; excess fire is manifested by upper abdominal discomfort, dry mouth and bitter taste, and dry and hard stools. Diet therapy: 30 grams of gypsum powder (avoid excessive intake), appropriate amounts of polished rice and mung beans. First boil the gypsum with water, then filter out the residue, take the clear liquid, and then add polished rice and mung beans to cook porridge.

3. What fruits should I eat if I have excessive stomach fire?

watermelon. Watermelon is cool in nature and contains a lot of water. It can promote salivation and quench thirst, clear away heat and reduce internal heat. It is suitable for people with internal heat and excessive heart fire. Watermelon is also rich in potassium salt, which can make up for the lack of potassium salt in the body caused by excessive sweating.

pitaya. Dragon fruit is a cool fruit with a sweet and juicy taste. It is very suitable for people with internal heat. It has the effect of reducing internal heat, clearing away heat and moistening the lungs, moistening the intestines and detoxifying.

orange. It tastes sweet and is mild in nature, and has the effects of soothing the liver, promoting qi and relieving pain. It is mainly used to relieve stagnant cold Qi in the Jueyin meridian, as well as to treat women's poor milk discharge, redness, swelling, hardness and pain in the breasts, etc.