The author of this article: Xu Youjia, Director of Pediatrics, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Children often get sick in kindergarten,
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The following is a real case
If it was your baby, what would you do?
Question:
Hello, Professor Xu, my boy is 3 years and 11 months old, 95cm tall, 24kg, born with blue veins on the bridge of the nose, allergic constitution, starting with milk protein allergy , followed by wheat egg milk intolerance. Basically 2 colds, fevers, coughs, and infusions are needed every year, all of which occur in winter. I started kindergarten in September 2020. I have bronchitis once a month, and then I have a weekly attack. I have a severe cough during the day and night, but no fever. I have eaten a lot of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine, and now my throat is red and swollen, rhinitis, adenoid hyperplasia .
eat less, picky eaters, never eat meat, love fruit, stools are thin and dark in color before and after drying, and there are undigested foods. Tired easily and dry skin. I have never been able to sleep well since I was a child. I like to kick the quilt, sleep on my stomach, talk in my sleep, and grind my teeth. My hands and feet are easy to get cold, I sweat when I fall asleep, my hair, chest, and back get wet. I have to change clothes in summer and towels in winter. Sometimes my hair is still wet when I wake up in the morning. What should I do now?
Answer: The child in the
case was diagnosed with milk protein allergy since childhood, and was repeatedly ill. After entering kindergarten, he frequently suffered from bronchitis and unsatisfactory growth and development. It is easy to judge that the child is allergic. Clinically, I have encountered a lot of children in this situation, most of which are caused by wrong feeding habits, parents should pay special attention.
Let's first summarize the child's problems:
● main symptoms: is not in good health, often gets sick, and gets worse in winter. Allergies.
● Stool: The stool is thin and dark in color before and after drying, and there is undigested food.
● Sleep: restless sleep, lying on the stomach, talking in your sleep, grinding your teeth , night sweats.
● Tongue image: Pale tongue , the tip of the tongue, the middle of the tongue is sunken, and the sides are slightly swollen; the tongue coating is white and slightly greasy.
● Other symptoms : is easy to get tired, hands and feet are easy to get cold; has big eye bags , mountain roots are blue and purple, lips are pale and slightly dry. Eat less, picky eaters.
● Physical development: is barely up to the standard in height, but not up to the standard in weight. All in all, he is relatively thin.
Bluish bags under the eyes, blue veins in the roots of the mountain, anorexia , night sweats, and repeated coughing are all due to spleen deficiency
Chinese medicine treats diseases, and emphasizes seeing, hearing, asking, and taking care. The first step is to "hope". From the pictures provided by the parents, it can be seen that the child's eyes are blue and purple, the mountain roots are blue, the lips are pale, and there is little gloss, which are all manifestations of long-term damage to the spleen and stomach.
"Young and Young Collection": "The root of the mountain is the origin of the stomach vein of foot Yangming. If the spleen and stomach are not injured, the vein of the mountain root will not appear." If the child's spleen and stomach are healthy, the bridge of the nose will not be able to see the blue veins. "The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine": "The lips are the officials of the spleen." The spleen opens in the mouth, and the problems of the spleen and stomach will be directly reflected on the lips. Healthy children are pure ruddy, lustrous, moist and moderate, while children with poor spleen and stomach have pale lips. No luster, even peeling and chapped. These symptoms can be seen at a glance, and parents can pay more attention to their children's situation on weekdays.
The function of the spleen and stomach is poor, the movement and transformation are weak, and the food eaten in the spleen and stomach will become "accumulation". I often say that the child has bad breath, does not sleep well at night, has abnormal stools, and has a thick and greasy tongue coating. These are typical manifestations of food accumulation. If the accumulated food is not digested and stagnant in time, it will form "accumulation", and the body will naturally send out a signal to reject food.Therefore, children will eat less, picky eaters, and severe anorexia. The accumulation of food and heat will force the body fluid to be excreted from the body. The child will sweat after falling asleep at night, especially in the second half of the night, but the sweat will stop naturally after waking up.
Finally, the repeated coughing of the child in the case was caused by repeated episodes of bronchitis on the one hand, and postnasal drip syndrome caused by rhinitis on the other hand. This situation is mainly due to insufficient lung and spleen, phlegm-damp endogenous, and the disease is a combination of deficiency and excess. Traditional Chinese medicine teaches that mother disease and child, soil (spleen and stomach) produces gold (lung), and spleen and stomach deficiency, then lung qi is also weakened, lung defense is not solid, exogenous pathogens are easy to invade, and bronchitis is easy to recur.
Wrong feeding habits make children allergic
Children develop milk allergy in infants and young children, in addition to genetics, most of them are caused by improper feeding. The child is allergic to cow's milk protein at the beginning, followed by intolerance to wheat, eggs, and milk. Although there are factors of insufficient innate endowment, it also has a lot to do with acquired feeding.
Children often lack the spleen, and the wrong feeding habits are not adjusted in time, which increases the burden on the spleen and stomach, exceeding the spleen and stomach overload operation, which damages the spleen and stomach for a long time. Such a child must have a long-term spleen deficiency, the spleen and stomach will be out of action on the essence of water and grains, and the nutrients will not be digested and absorbed.
Deficiency of the spleen can easily lead to accumulation of food, which will in turn damage the spleen and stomach and aggravate the insufficiency of the spleen; the two are in a vicious circle, and the physique is getting worse and worse. For a long time, it is easy to have colds, upper respiratory tract infections, throat inflammations, indigestion, etc. The children in the case also have rhinitis and adenoid hypertrophy. These symptoms are essentially all. It is a false standard of evidence, which is caused by long-term spleen deficiency.Most of the children with
allergic constitution are qi deficiency
children with allergic constitution are mostly qi deficiency, and they will further become yang deficiency if they are not regulated in time. The body lacks the warm and propulsive " yang energy", just like the child's growth and development lacks "firepower", the body lacks heat, and it is easy to have cold hands and feet, fear the cold, and grow shorter.
Such children are less tolerant to changes in the environment, climate and diet than those with Qi deficiency. When the weather is cold, it is particularly prone to problems, or the recurrence of old diseases, such as allergic rhinitis and bronchitis. In the case, the parents also mentioned that even if the child does not have a fever with bronchitis, it is because the yang qi of is insufficient, so it cannot burn.
In general, skinny, eating less, picky eaters, night sweats, restless sleep, dry stools, allergic constitution, easy to get sick, etc., these manifestations all point to damage to the spleen and stomach, most of which are spleen deficiency or even spleen yang deficiency symptom.
The key point of conditioning: strengthen the spleen warm the yang
the spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow, qi and blood the source of biochemistry, the food and water that the child eats are transported and transformed into the spleen and stomach, processed into water and grains, and transported to the lungs and enter The blood circulates and nourishes the whole body, and the essence of water and grain includes qi, blood, body fluid, etc.; the qi, which belongs to the yang part, is the yang qi.
Yang qi has the function of promoting and warming the internal organs, which can promote the growth and development of the human body. Spleen deficiency will not only affect digestion, but also cause other organs of the body to not be nourished by yang qi and blood, thus affecting the functions of other internal organs. Causes slow growth and development and low resistance. The child in this case of
should focus on strengthening the spleen and qi, and at the same time warming the yang, so as to avoid the physical state of yang deficiency.
starts with adjusting the wrong eating habits.
1, pay attention to digestion and reduce the occurrence of accumulated food
2, attach importance to strengthening the spleen
Spleen deficiency requires long-term conditioning, the most important thing is to reduce accumulated food, the spleen and stomach can naturally function without obstacles. When there is no accumulated food, you can eat more foods that nourish the spleen and qi, such as: five-fingered peach , black bean , red dates, Taizishen , yam, millet , crucian carp , eel , etc. The best herbs for tonifying the spleen are Taizishen and Atractylodes, which can be used for boiling water or soup; medicine can use Qiwei Bai Zhu San , Atractylodes Bergamot Soup, Loach Soup , Crucian Carp Soup and so on. Cultivation of soil produces gold, the spleen and stomach are healthy, the lungs are strong, and the resistance is strong, bronchitis and cough can be relieved, and illnesses are naturally much less.
3, Pay attention to Yang Yang
Qi deficiency is the gradual progression of Yang deficiency, and Yang deficiency is the extreme of Qi deficiency. If the child has qi deficiency, if it is not adjusted in time, it will gradually turn into yang deficiency. Many times children have some mild symptoms of deficiency and cold, which may be caused by qi deficiency. Icy cold, cold pain in the abdomen, and warm pain to reduce, still need to warm yang to dispel cold evil.
nourishes the sun in spring and summer, nourishes the yin in autumn and winter . Now is a good time to raise yang, and parents can seize this time to help their children raise yang. Such as moxibustion , foot soak , day moxibustion and other methods are very suitable for children with deficient cold. In terms of diet, you can give your children some chives , five-fingered peach, and ginseng.
If the spleen and stomach are healthy, and the yang qi is sufficient, then the child's allergic constitution will gradually improve, and the resistance and physique will gradually increase.
4, Take care of children's emotions
Children are picky eaters and eat less, and it is inevitable that there will be unhappiness between parents and children. Parents will blame the children. Children will not be happy if they don't eat what they want, or if they are forced to eat too much. Unhappy, poor Qi will in turn affect digestion. "The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" has a saying: "overthinking, stagnant temper, long-term damage, abnormal movement and transformation." The child's bad mood and emotional injury can easily affect the digestion and absorption of the spleen, and the child has poor appetite and poor appetite. , will cause allergy to , and in the long run, other diseases will also increase.
When children are picky eaters, parents should not correct them all at once. They should have the patience to boil frogs in warm water and correct them slowly. For example, children especially like to eat chicken thighs. You can mix chicken thighs with new and uneaten foods, so that the The child slowly accepts new or other foods. If you don't like meat, you can chop the meat and cook it together.
[Source: Xu Youjia Parenting]
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