What is the cause of the thick yellow tongue coating in children?

Children's health is very important and very fragile. Various disease viruses can easily enter the body through the mouth and cause great harm to children. Among them, the tongue coating is a common problem area, which will cause more serious problems to children's health. There are many problems with the tongue coating. Among them, what's the matter with children's thick yellow tongue coating? Let’s take a look at the explanation below, I hope everyone can understand it.

1. The baby's yellowish-white tongue coating is thick and sticky

If you can see a thick layer of yellow-white dirt on the baby's tongue, the tongue coating is thick and sticky and not easy to scrape off, and there is a sour and smelly smell in the mouth, this situation is probably caused by overeating, or eating too much greasy food, and poor spleen and stomach digestion function. People call it "food accumulation."

Countermeasure: Eat light food to improve digestion

If your baby experiences the above symptoms, it is likely that he has eaten too much or is too full, causing digestive dysfunction. At this time, it should be noted that when the baby has this kind of tongue coating, the diet should be relatively light. Once the baby has food accumulation, you can take some digestive medicines or foods such as hawthorn according to the specific situation. You can also boil 15g of chicken gizzard lining and 30g of hawthorn in water and take it, one dose per day. If the baby has dry stools and obvious abdominal distension, you can boil 6g of radish seeds, 6g of cassia seeds, and 10g of trichosanthes kirilowii in water and drink it, which can also help with digestion and relieve constipation.

2. The baby has less tongue coating and is red

A normal and healthy baby's tongue should be of moderate size, soft, light pink and moist, able to flex and move freely, speak clearly, and have a thin coating of moderate dryness and wetness on the surface of the tongue, and no odor in the mouth. Once the baby becomes sick, the tongue quality and tongue coating will change accordingly. If your baby has a cold and fever, the first symptom is a red tongue with a slightly thick yellow-white tongue coating. If the body temperature is high, the tongue is crimson and the tongue coating is dry, it means that the baby has severe heat and is losing body fluids. Fever is often accompanied by dry stools, and babies often have a stronger odor in their mouth. This situation usually indicates that the baby has severe internal heat, and the mother should pay attention to it. In babies with severe fever, thick red thorns can sometimes be seen on their tongues.

Countermeasures: Physical cooling and drinking more water

3. Baby's tongue is smooth and mirror-like red

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 polydipsia, or abdominal distension.

Countermeasure: Drink more soy milk and eat more vegetables