What to do if your baby has food retention

  Stagnation is a folk term that is equivalent to stagnation in traditional Chinese medicine theory. Stagnation is caused by children’s lack of self-restraint in breastfeeding, or inappropriate feeding, inappropriate breastfeeding, or excessive eating fatty, raw and cold undigested food and damage to the spleen and stomach. If the spleen and stomach are injured, the spleen and stomach are not able to receive and transport the food, and the elevation and lowering of the food are not regulated, the milk and food are stagnant, and the stagnation is not eliminated. The clinical manifestations are not thinking of breast-feeding, distension and fullness of the abdomen and stomach, sometimes pain, ambiguous rot and acid swallowing, irritability and crying, restlessness at night, heat in the heart of the hands and feet, foul-smelling ambassador, thin white greasy moss, and slippery pulse.  After the accumulation of food, the baby should first pay attention to dietary regulation, not overfeeding, according to the baby’s appetite to take a small number of meals feeding method, at the same time, if the supplementary food has been added, especially the addition of meat food should pay attention to the baby should not feed too much greasy meat food for the time being, should be milk, fruits and vegetables and other nutritious and easy to digest food as the main, if the baby’s appetite is very poor, the stool is very smelly then you can If the baby’s appetite is very poor and the stool is very smelly, you can give the child some Chinese medicine to regulate the function of the gastrointestinal tract and help digestion, generally you can use the Jian’er elimination granules, Ginseng and Atractylodes granules and other drugs. If the symptoms are not very serious, you can give your child some hawthorn water, malt water, yam and other foods.  The main focus is on prevention, feeding should pay attention to the child’s weight, combined with the amount of exercise and other factors comprehensive analysis of approximately how much energy the child needs every day, how much food needs to eat, do not blindly pursue the baby to eat more, otherwise it will be easy to accumulate food.