What to do if your child feels uncomfortable after eating too much

For the baby at home, the child's diet can be said to be the richest and most nutritious in the family, but many parents or grandparents will feed their children a lot of food. However, since the child's digestive system is not fully developed like that of an adult, it will cause the child to have food accumulation problems, and the child will also have uncomfortable symptoms. How can we discover the problem of child food accumulation? What should we do if the child eats too much and feels uncomfortable?

Symptoms of food indigestion in children

1. Loss of appetite

During the Chinese New Year, the baby's appetite was very good, but after a few days, I found that the baby's appetite was obviously not as good as before.

2. Stomach discomfort

Babies who have learned to speak often say that their stomachs are uncomfortable, bloated, or painful. This discomfort will be relieved after defecation, and then after a while, the pain will come again, and then defecation will occur again, and this cycle will repeat.

3. Bad breath

For children with severe indigestion, mothers can clearly smell a sour and rotten smell in the baby's breath.

4. Red cheeks

Babies' cheeks are prone to redness after overeating.

5. Hotness in the palms and soles

Some babies may also have hot palms and soles of feet.

What to do if your child has indigestion

1. Eat less

If you want your child to be safe, keep him three parts hungry and cold. That is to say, don't feed your children too much or dress them too warmly. Because children's digestive systems are not sound, they are prone to overeating and food accumulation, which increases the burden on their gastrointestinal function. Children should not be dressed too warmly as this will hinder their own temperature regulation mechanism. The early childhood period is the time when a child's functions develop, so we must create conditions for them to develop. Otherwise, when the child grows up, it will be easy for him to catch a cold or fever when the weather gets cold or changes.

Many mothers say, “How can my children eat a lot if they don’t eat?” Your child doesn't want to eat, but keeps eating snacks such as all kinds of candies, seaweed, and biscuits. After eating these heavy-tasting foods, the child will not like to eat, which is commonly known as "accumulation".

2. Know how to eat

The child's stool is dry, black and smelly, his urine is yellow and has an odor, his breath is sour and smelly, his tongue coating is a little white, he rolls around in his sleep at night, rubs his ears, his palms are hot, he sweats a lot on the back of his neck before going to bed, he has an abnormal appetite and no appetite, all of which are symptoms of indigestion.

Nowadays, many children’s illnesses are mostly related to indigestion. Occasionally, you can use dietary therapy to stimulate the appetite and aid digestion. When you have a cold or indigestion, do not eat glutinous rice products such as rice balls as they are difficult to digest. Do not eat mutton or beef when you have indigestion. The beef can only be eaten if it is stewed for many hours until it becomes almost a thick soup. Beef is high in calories and energy, and digesting it requires more energy.

Recommended digestion recipes:

Digestive tea - Hawthorn and pear tea

Ingredients: dried pear, ophiopogon japonicus, figs, and dried hawthorn.

Method: Wash the above ingredients, cut the figs in half with scissors to make them more flavorful, add 1000 ml of water and boil for about 30 minutes. Add a little more dried hawthorn, so the taste will be better, and it will be very delicious with a sour and sweet taste.

Efficacy: Nourishes the lungs, helps digestion, clears the heart and relieves restlessness, moistens the intestines and promotes bowel movements.

Spleen-strengthening porridge——Salted orange peel and lean meat porridge

Ingredients: 9 grams of tangerine peel, 50 grams of lean pork, 100 grams of rice, and 3 grams of salt.

practice:

1. Soak the tangerine peel and slice it; wash the lean pork and cut it into granules; wash the rice clean.

2. Put the rice into the pot, add tangerine peel and 800 ml of water, and boil over high heat.

3. Add lean pork and salt, then simmer for 45 minutes.

How to eat: Take once a day, 100 grams of porridge each time.

Efficacy: Tangerine peel can strengthen the spleen and appetite. It is suitable for weak spleen and stomach, reduced food intake, and has a mild stimulating effect on the stomach and intestines, which can promote digestion and eliminate gas accumulation in the intestines. Tangerine peel and salty lean meat porridge has the effects of strengthening the spleen and appetite, clearing away heat and reducing fire. It is suitable for children with poor digestion.

Appetizer soup - Apple, fig, snow fungus and lean meat

Ingredients: three apples, three figs, half a snow fungus (or appropriate amount), about 250 grams of lean meat.

practice:

1. Peel and cut the apples into pieces. Cut one apple into 8 pieces.

2. Wash the lean meat, put the lean meat and ginger slices into a pot with cold water, blanch and dry them for later use.

3. Soak the snow fungus in water and tear it apart with your hands or a knife. Wash the figs. Put all the ingredients into a soup pot, then add 5 bowls of water and cook for 2 hours. Season with salt before drinking.

Effect: cleans the liver, moisturizes the throat, sweet and sour, appetizing

3. Exercise more

The example of a friend’s child: the child’s stomach is not very good. He has been treated for many years and has seen many doctors. Later, an old Chinese doctor suggested exercise regulation, and it began to show results. The child enrolled in two classes, one for table tennis and one for basketball. I play table tennis twice a week, one and a half hours each time. One basketball, nearly two hours each time. After the game, I have a good appetite and sleep well. He goes to bed at nine in the evening and cannot get up at seven in the morning, which is exactly what I want. In the past, he would get up around six to read no matter how cold the winter was.

He jumps rope every morning and goes home sweating for 20 minutes. He jumps quickly and usually starts sweating after three to five minutes, and his sweat increases significantly after breakfast. This year I have gained ten centimeters in height. 130 cm. I now eat two bowls of rice for every meal. My face has gained weight and my lips are redder than before.

Therefore, if children eat too much and have indigestion, exercise can help digestion, and it is better to move than to be still. Post-meal walk: After eating, take your child for a gentle walk for half an hour to an hour.