How to judge whether the baby has indigestion? What food is good for the baby to eat?

To determine whether your baby has indigestion, see if he has these symptoms. What should you do if your baby has indigestion? How to prevent your baby from indigestion?

Symptoms of indigestion

Below are some methods on how to determine if your child has indigestion. You can refer to them.

(1) Bad breath

If you feel that your child's mouth has become very bad recently, it is more likely that he has indigestion. In severe cases, the child may vomit and spit out sour and smelly undigested food. In this case, you should consider the possibility of indigestion.

(2) Stool smells bad

The ancients said, "It smells like rotten eggs." In other words, the stool has the smell of rotten eggs. In this case, the possibility of food accumulation should also be considered.

(3) Changes in the frequency and quality of bowel movements

Children with indigestion will have a change in the frequency of their bowel movements, which will increase, but each time they will be sticky and smell bad, and they may even have diarrhea. The smell of the stool will be more severe in the first few days, and then it will gradually become clear and the smell will become a light fishy smell. Such children will also have a bloated stomach, which will constantly make gurgling sounds, as if there is gas in it, and they will constantly pass gas and fart, which will also have a strong smell.

(4) The tongue coating will become thicker

This situation is very typical. There is a coin-sized thick tongue coating in the middle part of the tongue. In some cases, the tongue coating of the entire tongue becomes thick and greasy. At this time, you should highly suspect whether you have food accumulation.

Many parents will ask: How to observe the tongue coating? In fact, I advocate observing the tongue coating in a dynamic process. For example, if you often observe your child's tongue coating, you will have an understanding of the child's usual condition. However, if you find that the child's tongue coating is suddenly thicker than usual in recent days, this change is very diagnostically significant. Moreover, doctors cannot see this kind of observation, so parents have more advantages.

(5) My lips have suddenly become very red these days.

Some children have food stagnation, and the food stagnation turns into heat. Parents will find that their children's lips suddenly become very red in the past few days, as if they have applied lipstick. At this time, they should suspect that the food stagnation turns into heat. This is also a dynamic process. The change in lip color is the most meaningful, and only parents can observe this change.

(6) The face tends to become red

Children's faces are prone to redness after indigestion. This redness is often concentrated in a relatively concentrated area, often on the right cheekbone. Some parents may think that the children scratched themselves, but in fact, this is often a problem caused by indigestion.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the face of a person corresponds to the whole body. The left side is responsible for ascending, and the right side is responsible for descending. If the lung and stomach do not descend, problems are likely to occur on the right side. In fact, why do children scratch here? It is also possible that they feel uncomfortable here, but even if they do not scratch, there will be a difference in color here.

(7) Appetite disorders

When children first start to have food accumulation, they often cannot eat and have a poor appetite. However, if the food accumulation lasts for a long time and there is heat in the stomach, they may always feel hungry, but their stomach will be bloated after eating and they will soon have diarrhea.

(8) Uneasy sleep at night

Children with indigestion like to toss and turn when they sleep at night. Younger children will even cry while they sleep. This is what Chinese medicine calls "If the stomach is not in harmony, you will not sleep well."

(9) Sore throat after a cold

Children who eat too much meat and have indigestion will immediately develop throat infections and swollen and painful tonsils as soon as they catch a cold. This is because the middle jiao is blocked, the lungs and stomach cannot descend, and the stagnant heat is in the upper jiao.

(10) Abdominal pain and diarrhea after meals

Children with indigestion will have a bloated and indigestion stomach after eating and will complain of stomach pain. The pain will be relieved after diarrhea, but after a while, the pain will come again and diarrhea will occur again, and this cycle will repeat.

These situations do not necessarily occur at the same time. Parents and friends need to be aware of each one. Each one may help you identify food accumulation.

What to do if your baby has food accumulation

1. Chinese medicine massage

Let the baby lie on the bed. In summer, you can take off the shirt to expose the back. Use the thumb, index finger and middle finger of both hands to gently pinch the skin from the coccyx along the two fingers on both sides of the baby's spine. Slowly pinch forward and push it all the way to the Dazhui point on the neck. Pinch five or six times from bottom to top as a group. When pinching for the third time, lift the skin upwards after every three pinches. It is best to do this method every morning and evening. Or massage the abdomen: Mommy rubs her palms to warm them up first, then slowly massage the baby's abdomen clockwise for about 30 times.

2. It is common home care

Eat some hawthorn as a snack: Eating some hawthorn and hawthorn products can promote gastric juice secretion, eliminate greasiness, resolve internal accumulation, and stimulate appetite. It can increase appetite and help digestion. However, hawthorn slices contain more sugar and should not be consumed for a long time or in excess.

3. Diet adjustment can be adopted

For three meals a day, choose light vegetables, easily digestible rice porridge, noodle soup, noodles, etc. Do not eat fried or puffed foods, eat less or even no meat, and you can eat some fish and shrimp appropriately.

The above are very common and simple methods to help babies solve the problem of food accumulation. When parents find that their babies have food accumulation, they should take timely measures to relieve the troubles caused by food accumulation; however, if the baby's food accumulation is more serious, accompanied by symptoms such as dry stools, coughing, vomiting, etc., it is recommended to take the baby to the hospital for treatment in time.

What food is good for babies with indigestion?

When children have food accumulation, the amount of food they eat should be properly controlled. The food should be soft, thin and easy to digest, such as rice soup, noodle soup, etc. After 6-12 hours, they can eat easily digestible protein food. They can take Chinese medicine that strengthens the spleen, digests food and eliminates accumulation, such as hawthorn, malt, chicken gizzard, etc. At the same time, let the children do more outdoor sports to help digestion and absorption. Parents should cultivate good eating habits for infants and young children, eat at regular times and in fixed quantities, and avoid being too hungry or too full to avoid the occurrence of "food accumulation".

10g of fried malt, 6g of fried hawthorn, and appropriate amount of brown sugar. Boil fried malt and fried hawthorn in water, remove the residue and take the juice, season with brown sugar, and drink it at will. It has the effects of harmonizing the stomach, digesting food, and removing stagnation; it is suitable for belching and vomiting, anorexia and lack of hunger, weak gastrointestinal digestion, and restlessness caused by food stagnation in the stomach.

How to prevent baby's food accumulation

Some babies suffer from indigestion because they are doing something of interest before eating. At this time, the parents interrupt them and then eat. The babies will be anxious to finish the meal and continue with their own things. Therefore, the babies eat too fast and cause problems.

Let your baby concentrate on eating

Parents must pay attention to the fact that babies usually have indigestion because they are not paying attention to eating. For example, when eating, watching TV, listening to music, or playing with other children, etc., can cause indigestion in babies. Therefore, when babies are eating, it is best to let them concentrate on eating.

Don't scold your baby at the dinner table

Some parents like to scold and blame their babies when they are eating. This is the most undesirable behavior and is totally wrong. For babies, when they are eating, their bodies are already in the process of taking in nutrients. If you scold and blame them, it will only make it difficult for them to swallow the food, which will lead to indigestion.

Preventing anorexia in babies

If you find that your baby has anorexia, you should take him to the hospital for examination. Not all babies will have such symptoms. You should pay attention to observe whether your baby behaves like this to all foods.

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