What are the differences between infant fetal toxins and eczema

Fetal toxin is a traditional term in Chinese medicine and folk medicine. It is mainly divided into damp toxins and heat toxins. It refers to a kind of toxin accumulated by the mother during pregnancy. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, it is internal heat, which often causes skin diseases such as sores and boils in newborns. This is related to the mother's internal heat constitution. Fetal toxins and eczema are also different. Eczema mainly refers to some inflammatory skin diseases caused by the epidermis and dermis.

What is the difference between fetal toxins and eczema

Fetal toxins are a traditional folk term, which are mainly divided into damp toxins and heat toxins, and are accumulated by mothers during pregnancy. What people call fetal poison is actually internal heat in traditional Chinese medicine. The main manifestations are neonatal sores, scabies, acne, etc. The causes of these diseases may be related to the mother's internal heat constitution. "Clearing fetal toxins" is more popular in the south. The older generation believes that the climate and water quality in the south are hot and humid. Therefore, pregnant women must remove fetal toxins before giving birth, otherwise the baby's skin will easily develop sores, rashes, etc. after birth.

If a pregnant woman eats a lot of meat and fish, consumes too much milk powder, and consumes too much spicy and fried food during pregnancy, it will increase the heat in the body and may be passed on to the fetus.

Eczema is an inflammatory skin disease of the epidermis and superficial dermis. It begins with redness of the skin and pinhead-sized red papules on it. The manifestations are characterized by symmetry, exudativeness, pruritus, polymorphism and recurrence. Eczema is characterized by diverse rashes, symmetrical distribution, recurrent severe itching, and the tendency to become chronic.

What are the symptoms of fetal toxicity?

The symptoms of fetal toxins mainly manifest as various skin allergies on the baby's skin, such as boils, scabies, acne, etc. The common clinical symptoms include fetal toxicity fever, fetal toxicity chills, fetal toxicity convulsions, fetal toxicity jaundice, etc. This condition may be related to the mother's internal heat constitution.

1. Fetal toxicity and fever: high fever all over the body, closed mouth and red face, hot breathing, swollen eyelids, shortness of breath, crying and irritability, short and red urine, and constipation.

2. Fetal toxicity and coldness: pale complexion, drowsiness, white diarrhea when sucking milk, cold breathing, shivering, bending feet and clenching fists, crying in pain, or unable to open the mouth.

3. Fetal toxins causing convulsions: frequent convulsions, hot body and blue face, clenched jaws, reverse breathing and gurgling phlegm, straight waist and stiff body, eyes looking up, and inability to cry.

4. Fetal toxicity turns yellow: the face and whole body are yellow like gold, the body is hot, the urine is like gardenia juice, the person has no appetite for milk or food, and the person cries constantly.