My child has bad breath and his height and weight are not up to standard. Is his spleen and stomach weak? How to take care of yourself without hurting your body?

If a child has bad breath, the main reasons you mentioned are weak spleen and stomach, food accumulation, constipation, indigestion, transportation and transformation dysfunction, leading to malnutrition in the child, all of which may cause the above symptoms.

Recently, a colleague is very distressed. Her son is 3 and a half years old and is less than 90 centimeters. He is much shorter than other children of the same age. A colleague said that the child usually eats a lot of food and is getting all kinds of nutrients, but he is not growing fat or tall. I thought it was due to delayed growth. However, when I went to the hospital for a checkup, I found that the child had insufficient spleen and stomach, and most of the nutrients he ate were not available. It is absorbed, so it develops slowly and does not grow taller. In fact, insufficient spleen and stomach can also reduce immunity and cause many health problems to children, thus affecting growth and development. Today we will first look at the symptoms of insufficient spleen and stomach.

Five manifestations suggest a deficiency of the spleen and stomach

1. Long-term cough that does not heal

Children have poor resistance and colds are very common. The spleen is the place where phlegm is produced. Without good health, moisture cannot be discharged and will condense into turbid phlegm in the body. Therefore, if a child recovers from a cold but still has a cough that cannot stop for a long time, it is caused by weak spleen and stomach function.

2. Thick and greasy tongue coating

Take your child to see a doctor. The doctor usually asks the child to stick out his tongue to have a look, because different parts of the tongue correspond to the internal organs and can be very intuitive. reflect the child's health status. Under normal circumstances, the baby's tongue is pink and tender, and the tongue coating is evenly spread with a layer of white frost on the tongue. If you find that the child's tongue coating becomes darker or even yellow, thick, greasy, uneven, accompanied by bad breath, it is a typical sign of spleen and stomach weakness. .

3. Poor complexion and lack of energy

A careful mother can detect slight abnormalities on the child's face. If the child's skin is white, tender and firm, it means that the spleen and stomach are strong and the qi and blood are strong. Adequate. On the contrary, if you find that your baby's face is dull and dull, or even yellow, with big bags under the eyes, a faint bluish color on the bridge of the nose, a lack of energy all day long, anorexia, and a small appetite, it may be due to insufficient spleen and stomach.

4. Night sweats

Observe the child's sleep. Some children are obviously not hot. After sleeping for more than ten minutes, their heads are covered with sweat, which can wet the pillow towel. This is Abnormal sweating is often related to spleen deficiency. Moreover, if the spleen and stomach are weak, the child will push on the quilt, grind his teeth, talk in his sleep, sleep on his stomach, etc. The quality of sleep is extremely poor.

5. Eating alone does not make you gain weight

Some children are anorexic, picky eaters, and have poor appetite, indicating a weak spleen and stomach; some children have a good appetite, but do not gain weight. If the stomach is strong and the spleen is weak, no matter how much you eat, it cannot be fully digested. Nutrients will be excreted from the body along with food residues, and the weight will only increase slowly, or even only lose no gain.

Comprehensive analysis, what is the problem? In addition, the height and weight are lower than the standard for normal children, so the child needs to be strengthened.

Because the details are unclear, it is recommended to investigate according to the following points:

1. The child’s water drinking situation: except for breastfed babies, no additional water is required before 6 months of age. In addition to water, under other circumstances, children need to be hydrated. As age increases, the amount of water they drink also increases. Children around 5 years old need to drink more than 800 ml of water every day. The weather is hot and they sweat during exercise. Under the circumstances, more should be added. Don't wait until your child feels thirsty before letting him drink water. Not drinking enough water can easily lead to bad breath and constipation.

2. Observe the child’s stool: Constipation in children is now a relatively common phenomenon, which reflects the health problems of the child’s intestines. If your child is constipated, you should take it seriously and look for the cause. Constipation can also cause bad breath and affect the child's growth and development.

3. Children’s sleep time and quality: Children sleep longer than adults and should fall asleep earlier than adults at night. If there is insufficient sleep for a long time, the child’s growth and development will not only be affected, but also the health risks will be Very big.

4. How is the child’s appetite? Picky eater? Children who are picky eaters will have unbalanced nutrition and their growth and development will definitely be affected. Children who do not like to eat fruits and vegetables will have intestinal health problems and cause constipation due to lack of sufficient dietary fiber.

5. Daily activities: Children need more exercise than adults. Ensure at least 2 hours of activity time every day. Insufficient exercise will also lead to poor growth and health problems.

6. If parents find that their child's height and weight are not up to standard, they should also monitor the growth rate of their child's height and weight at home. While monitoring, they should receive help from the growth and development clinic doctor of the Child Health Department, who will evaluate the growth rate. Is the child's height and weight a disease state of shortness and low weight, or a normal state of shortness and underweight?

7. Monitor the child well. If the child's weight and height are not up to standard, it depends on whether his growth rate is normal. If his height and weight are not up to standard, but his growth rate is normal, then there is no problem. Too big.

If it is found that the child is pathologically short and underweight, endocrine examination and blood drawing will be carried out. If the child is just short and underweight, the doctor will in most cases provide guidance on dietary behavior. In fact, clinically, the majority of children whose height and weight are not up to standard are not caused by disease states, but by poor eating habits. For example, many parents are afraid that their children will be hungry and feed their children frequently, so that the children never experience hunger;

By investigating and correcting these five aspects that affect the growth, development and health of children, children's health problems can be solved.

You can refer to the following methods for conditioning, which are not harmful to the body and have good effects.

First, correct unreasonable eating habits. Many children have improper diet for a long time, such as big fish and meat, cold and spicy food, too many snacks, obvious picky eaters, and overeating before going to bed at night. These factors will cause the child's spleen and stomach to become more burdened, and the spleen and stomach will become weaker. Finally, indigestion and food accumulation begin. If it continues, internal heat will develop, sore throat, cold, fever and cough, loss of appetite, bad breath, teeth grinding and constipation, etc. Therefore, the best way is to control the diet, reduce the burden on the child's spleen and stomach, eat a light diet, avoid overeating, overfeeding, and have a balanced diet.

At the same time, we should also pay attention to the feeding method of the child. You can let the child eat more yam porridge. The yam has the functions of nourishing the spleen and stomach, promoting the production of body fluid and lungs, and tonifying the kidney and astringent essence. Children can drink more.

Second, pediatric massage. Many children have weak spleen and stomach since birth. Their weight and height at birth are not up to standard. They eat less, have poor energy, do not like to exercise, are picky eaters and anorexia, and have poor sleep. Therefore, it is best to give children under three years old a massage. It is healthy, safe and effective. Specific conditioning also requires going to a professional massage place.

Third, strengthen exercise. Exercise is very good. On the one hand, it can enhance the child's physical fitness. On the other hand, it can promote the digestion and absorption of the child's spleen and stomach. As long as the child eats more and absorbs more, the child will not worry about growing taller and gaining weight.

Fourth, diet therapy, strengthen the spleen and stomach. 6 grams each of Jiao Sanxian and 6 grams of fried chicken gizzard. Boil it in water and drink it. This is the amount for one day. If you drink it for two days, the problem will basically be solved.

Fifth, probiotics and spleen-invigorating oral liquid can be added to the child, which has a good conditioning effect on the child's spleen, stomach, and intestines.

Be prepared for a rainy day. Don’t wait until your child has a problem before you think of taking care of it. That would be too passive. As long as the above aspects can be ensured, I believe that it will not be a problem for your child to grow taller.