Normal color of newborn's lips

The color of people's lips is closely related to the health of their spleen and stomach. For example, most people with poor stomachs have purple or dark red lips, while people with white and bloodless lips are showing signs of anemia. Normally, the color of people's lips should be light pink, so people can judge whether the body is healthy by observing the color of the lips. So what is the normal color of a newborn's lips?

Changes in lip color during illness

The spleen opens up at the mouth, and its essence is on the lips. The hand and foot Yangming meridians surround the lips, so problems with the spleen manifest directly on the lips.

Observe your child's health by identifying his lip color:

Pale lips indicate insufficient Qi and blood, similar to what Western medicine calls anemia;

Red lips indicate heat accumulation in the spleen and stomach;

Deep red lips indicate excessive heat damaging the yin;

Red and purple lips indicate blood stasis and heat.

Red, swollen and ulcerated lips are caused by the heat of the spleen and stomach;

Oral sores or erosions are also mostly caused by spleen and stomach fire or heart fire;

Bluish-purple lips indicate qi stagnation and blood stasis, and are also a symptom of cold.

If the lips are blue, you should be careful of convulsions and convulsions, which may also be caused by lack of oxygen.

White spots appear inside the lips and on the tongue, which are mostly caused by worms;

Flushed cheeks with pale areas around the lips are signs of scarlet fever.

Generally speaking, pale lips indicate deficiency and cold, while red lips indicate excess and heat. Oral ulcers and erosions are mouth sores caused by heat accumulation in the heart and spleen; white flakes in the mouth are thrush. There are needle-sized white spots on the cheek mucosa, surrounded by red halos, which are measles mucosal spots. Both thrush and measles require immediate hospital treatment.

If you have ulcers or erosions in your mouth and tongue, it means that your stomach fire is too strong. There are many such children nowadays. Children aged 7 or 8 often have mouth ulcers. When they stick out their tongues, they can see that the ulcers are very large and the children are in great pain. Because I had ulcers in my mouth, drinking water was irritating, I couldn't eat hard food, and my eating was greatly affected. Therefore, children who often suffer from mouth ulcers have poor physical constitution and are relatively thin because they cannot eat. For children with this kind of physique, some simple methods can be used to help them regulate their body.

For mouth ulcers and bad breath, you can use 5 grams of lotus seed core and 10 grams of perilla, then soak them in water and drink them. The fragrance of Perilla frost can ward off evil, and drinking it will unblock your stomach and intestines. The lotus seed core can clear the heart fire, and once the heart fire is cleared, the spleen and stomach will be unblocked and everything will be fine.

Once the fire is cleared, the bad breath will naturally clear and the mouth ulcers will disappear. So bad breath is not caused by problems in the mouth. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the spleen opens up to the mouth, so it is related to the spleen. If you have mouth ulcers and bad breath, you must first treat the spleen and stomach to cure it.