What should you do if your child has a bad spleen and stomach? Be alert to the three major symptoms of weak spleen and stomach!

The health of the baby is what parents are most concerned about. A child with a bad spleen and stomach usually shows symptoms such as loss of appetite, indigestion, food accumulation, and diarrhea. This can affect your baby's health and development. What are the symptoms of poor spleen and stomach in children in early childhood? How to help children improve their spleen and stomach effectively?

1. Constant drooling

Most babies drool when they are young, and many parents do not take it seriously, thinking that it is normal and that the baby will naturally stop drooling when he grows up. However, if the baby's teeth have all grown out, but drooling is still severe, parents should consider whether it is caused by weak spleen and stomach.

If a child has a weak spleen and stomach, it can be regulated through diet. Foods such as hawthorn, malt, yam, red dates, herring, and coix seed all have the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach. Mothers can add them to their baby's diet appropriately.

2. Long-term cough is difficult to cure

In most cases, a baby's cough is caused by tracheitis, but when the cough does not go away for a long time, other reasons should be considered, because a weak spleen and stomach can also cause the baby's cough to become worse. If the cough caused by weak spleen and stomach is not treated with the right medicine, it will become a long-term cough. When a mother encounters this situation with her baby, she can add some medicines to treat cough on the basis of regulating the spleen and stomach. It is also best to take some oral liquids that strengthen the stomach and aid digestion. According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, the spleen and stomach are the source of the five internal organs, and weak spleen and stomach are the root cause of children's cough. So if you want to cure the symptoms, you must first cure the root cause.

When treating a baby's cough caused by weak spleen and stomach, in addition to some normal drug treatments, massage and spinal manipulation can also be used as an auxiliary treatment. When massaging, use the middle finger, ring finger and little finger of both hands to make a fist, half-bend the index finger, extend the thumb, then pinch the baby's back skin about 0.5 to 1 cm, and push from bottom to top along both sides of the spine. Repeat this process once or twice a day to assist.

3. Long-term anorexia

If your baby doesn't like to eat, it will definitely worry all parents. Not liking to eat will affect the growth and development. If the baby has anorexia for a long time, it will cause great harm to the baby's health. So how should our mothers deal with the baby's long-term anorexia?

There are many reasons for a baby's anorexia, such as indigestion, food accumulation, irregular diet, etc., which can cause anorexia in children, but sometimes weak spleen and stomach can also cause anorexia. Mothers can regulate their baby's anorexic behavior through diet. When choosing food, mothers should not only consider various nutrients, but also pay attention to the richness and diversity of the food and whether it is easy to digest. Try to make the food colorful, fragrant and delicious to increase your baby's appetite. Also, when choosing ingredients, choose more spleen-strengthening and appetite-stimulating foods, and eat less greasy, raw and cold foods. And the diet should be regular and quantitative.