What should children eat to get rid of dampness?

Not to mention babies, even adults like us have dampness in our bodies, but some people have too much dampness which will cause a series of diseases. If there is too much moisture in the baby's body, it will be detrimental to the baby's healthy growth. It is best not for children to take medicine, because all medicines are toxic. Babies can remove moisture from their bodies through some diet. Here are some foods that can help your baby get rid of dampness and detoxification:

What should children eat if they have dampness?

The weather in summer is unpredictable and humid, sometimes sunny and sometimes rainy. Especially the humid weather makes people feel uncomfortable from the inside out. On rainy days, babies can easily get wet, and if not properly cared for, they may develop various diseases, so mothers should not underestimate this. Since removing dampness is so important, how can we as mothers remove dampness for our babies correctly?

1. Winter melon porridge

Ingredients: 30 grams of polished rice, 150 grams of winter melon. Method: Cut the wax gourd into small pieces and cook it with rice into porridge. It can be eaten when the porridge is cooked.

2. Barley porridge

Cook barley into porridge and yam into soup. Job's tears are sweet, mild and slightly cold in nature, and have the effects of diuresis and swelling, strengthening the spleen and removing dampness, relaxing muscles and removing numbness, clearing away heat and discharging pus. Yam does not have the direct effect of removing moisture, but it can nourish the spleen and indirectly expel moisture from the body.

3. Lotus Leaf Porridge

Ingredients: 30 grams of polished rice, 1 lotus leaf, a little sugar. Preparation method: Cook the porridge with japonica rice in the usual way. When the porridge is cooked, take fresh lotus leaves, wash them, cover the porridge, and simmer for a while. Remove the lotus leaves, and the porridge will turn light green. Mix well and add a little sugar.

4. Quail Dehumidifying Soup

Ingredients: 1 quail, 20 grams each of coix seed and lily, 1 slice of ginger. Method: Put quail, coix seed, lily and ginger into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water and cook for 1 and a half hours.

5. Red bean, barley and mung bean porridge

30 grams each of dried red beans, coix seed and mung beans (or 50 grams each of dried red beans and coix seed), use a soy milk maker to make mature pulp and take it warm in two or three times (you can also wash an equal amount in a thermos at night, pour in half a bottle of boiling water, drink the soup during the next day, and cook porridge at night), take it for seven days in a row, then reduce to two to three times to once a week.

Medicinal food to remove dampness

1. Spleen-strengthening and dampness-removing soup

Ingredients: 10g yam (dried), 10g wild yam, 10g rhizoma angustifoliae, 300g pig pancreas (pig pancreas), and appropriate amount of water. Preparation method: Wash Chinese yam, wild yam, cyperus rotundus and pig's horn moonflower, put them into a clay pot together, add appropriate amount of water and boil, then turn to low heat and cook for 1 hour before drinking. Suitable for people with poor spleen and stomach.

2. Hezhong Huashi Decoction

Ingredients: 30 grams of kapok flowers, 30 grams of frangipani, 30 grams of locust flowers, 30 grams of coix seeds, 100 grams of lean meat, 30 grams of fried lentils, 12 grams of tangerine peel or amomum. Method: Wash kapok flowers, frangipani, locust flowers, coix seeds, lean meat, fried lentils, tangerine peel or amomum villosum, put them in a clay pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 1 hour. Suitable for people with damp-heat and spleen deficiency.

3. Heat-clearing and dampness-removing soup

Ingredients: 250g of Poria cocos, 250g of Pueraria lobata, 50g of red bean, 50g of lentil, half a dried tangerine peel, and 8 bowls of water. Method: Peel and cut the Poria cocos into sections, peel and cut the Pueraria lobata into pieces, put the ingredients into a pot, bring the water to a boil and simmer for 3 hours. Suitable for removing bone fire, removing dampness, and clearing away heat and toxins.

Symptoms of heavy dampness in children

1. Check your baby's mental state when you get up

If your baby is particularly tired, cannot wake up, and has no energy when you wake up every morning, or looks like he is wearing wet clothes, feels uncomfortable all over, and is too lazy to move... then you can be sure that there is dampness in his body.

2. Look at your stool when you go to the toilet

After your baby goes to the toilet, you can observe his stool. Is it stuck to the toilet? Even a tank of water can't flush it away. If it is inconvenient to observe the toilet, you can also observe the toilet paper. Normally, one or two pieces of paper are enough. If three or five pieces of paper cannot be wiped clean after repeated use, it also means that there is moisture in the body. In addition, the color and shape of the stool can also help determine whether there is moisture in the body. Normal stools are golden yellow and banana-shaped, but few people have this healthy stool nowadays. When there is dampness in the body, the stool will be blue in color, loose and soft without any shape, and there will always be a feeling of incomplete excretion. Over time, the toxins produced by stool retention accumulate in the body, causing a variety of diseases.

3. Look at the color of the baby's tongue coating

The tongue is the sprout of the heart and the external sign of the spleen. The tongue can sensitively reflect the baby's physical condition. When you clean your baby's mouth, you can carefully observe the baby's tongue to see the color and thickness of the tongue coating. A healthy tongue is light red and moist, with a layer of tongue coating on the surface, which is thin, white and clean, with moderate dryness and wetness, neither slippery nor dry. If the tongue does not meet these indicators, it means that there is a problem with the body's function. If the tongue coating is white and thick, and looks slippery and moist, it means that there is cold in the body; if the tongue coating is rough or very thick, yellow and greasy, it means that there is damp heat in the body; if the tongue is red and has no coating, it means that the body is already hot to a certain extent and hurts the yin.

4. The baby's appetite decreases and the appetite is poor

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, heavy humidity in spring causes the spleen and stomach to regress, so people will feel poor appetite and loss of appetite. I fed him noodles, rice, and porridge alternately, but the child refused to eat.