The causes of peeling tongue in children are mainly caused by the following conditions. First, it is a symptom caused by a deficiency of the trace element zinc. If children are deficient in the trace element zinc, it will lead to the loss of children’s tongue. Children’s appetite for food is poor, and the oral mucosa may show symptoms of mouth ulcers. Children need to be given timely blood tests for trace elements. If zinc deficiency is diagnosed, the child should be given zinc licorice granules or zinc gluconate oral solution. Secondly, Yin injury caused by infectious fever. If a child suffers from acute enteritis or acute bronchopneumonia, etc., after the infectious disease causes fever in the child, the child’s tongue will fall off, thus causing the appearance of map tongue. Children need to be given medicines that nourish yin, such as salvia and maitake.