What to do if your child has a thick white tongue coating? How to treat a thick white tongue coating

The tongue coating is an important indicator of a person's physical health. Under normal circumstances, a healthy person's tongue coating is pink and tender, smooth and clean. If a baby has a thick white tongue coating, it generally indicates superficial symptoms and cold symptoms. At this time, it is necessary to carry out daily care of the baby's body.

1: White tongue coating: generally indicates exterior syndrome and cold syndrome. A thin, white and moist tongue coating is a normal feature of a person's tongue. At the same time, a thin, white coating also indicates that the disease is on the surface of the body and has not penetrated into the interior. The tongue coating is thin, white and overly smooth, which is often seen in symptoms of superficial cold. The tongue coating is thin, white and dry, which indicates superficial heat or infection with dryness. A thick, dry white tongue coating indicates that dampness and turbidity turn into heat and damage body fluids. The tongue is covered with white fur and is not dry to the touch, which is called "powdery white fur" and indicates plague. The tongue coating is white and dry, which is called "rough and cracked tongue coating" and is often seen in febrile diseases.

1: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that there are many factors that cause children's tongue coating to become thick and white. For example, getting a fever is also an important cause of the thick and white tongue coating. Therefore, we should be in a good mood every day to avoid children getting angry. Children can be given more heat-clearing and detoxifying foods, such as white radish, lotus root, mung bean, hawthorn, etc. Children should be given more vegetables and fruits every day, and they must be given enough water. If the problem of thick white tongue coating is still very serious, then the following can be used:

2: Job's tears: It has the effect of clearing away heat and removing dampness. It can be cooked into porridge and added with rock sugar to be given to children as a snack.

3: Light bamboo leaves: It can clear the mind and promote urination. It can relieve the discomfort of urination caused by internal heat in babies. At the same time, light bamboo leaves are not only effective in clearing internal heat, but also in regulating the spleen, stomach and intestines of babies. You can use light bamboo leaves to make water for your children to drink on a daily basis.

4: Rice sprouts: They can help digestion, relieve children’s problems with food accumulation and fever caused by indigestion, and help children defecate easily and excrete toxins from the body.

5: In short, if the child's tongue coating is thick and greasy, or is relatively thick but also has a white problem, then under normal circumstances it means that the baby's body is "hot". Most babies with thick tongue coating will also have bad breath, constipation, excessive eye mucus, indigestion, irritability, crying at night and other problems. At this time, mothers need to adjust the treatment in a targeted manner.

Health products with the function of reducing heat can be taken in time if the child has a fever or a thick white tongue coating. In addition, lack of sleep in children can also cause thick white tongue coating, so the child’s sleep time should be adjusted daily, especially now is the hottest season of the year, more attention should be paid to let the child have a good sleeping environment.