This year, August 7 is autumn, sending off the heat, ushered in the autumn, in this summer and autumn, baby care problems caused many parents headache, such as poor appetite, do not want to eat how to do? What is the right temperature for air conditioning? How to eat bad tummy?
From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, children’s physique is different from that of adults, their internal organs are delicate, the form is not yet full, and they are the body of infantile yin and yang. Ling Shu? The “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine?” has: “Infants, their flesh is brittle, blood is small, gas is weak. It is said. It means that the Yang energy of children is more tender than that of adults, and after feeling external evil (bacteria and viruses, etc.), their ability to resist diseases is weaker than that of adults, and summer is the time when the Yang energy of the human body is more outside and the inner Yang energy is relatively weak.
1, fever, and even febrile convulsions: many parents come to the emergency room in the middle of the night in summer mainly because of fever.
2, cough: because the weather in Wuhan is too hot, the autumn tiger is also very strong, can only stay in the air-conditioned room, then the cough is easy to repeat and persistent.
3, allergic rhinitis, asthma: these allergic children are always bad in hot and cold environments, sneezing, runny nose, and even roaring wheezing once they enter the air-conditioned room.
4, uncontrolled diet: some children are prone to parental indulgence, eating cold drinks (cola / Sprite / tea drinks / juice drinks / functional drinks / all kinds of milk tea) or ice desserts (popsicles / ice cream / smoothies) more, diarrhea, or after eating cold then eat barbecue meat and other hot food, hot and cold alternately lead to bowel irregularities; some small babies in the family of the elderly to add supplementary food is more anxious, all of a sudden to the spleen and stomach is still Fragile children eat foods with high protein content, such as abalone, sea cucumber, shrimp, etc., which are not easily digested and cause diarrhea; if infected with bacteria and viruses in autumn, it is easy to cause autumn diarrhea.
5, diet is not clean: small babies’ milk utensils are not cleaned regularly every day, parents’ nails are too long with germs or gray nails, hand cleaning is not done; older children follow their parents to eat and drink outside (KFC/McDonald’s/Pizza Hut/Green’s Court/Bar John/Hokkeli and other kinds of fast food, Korean barbecue/hot pot/casserole/skewers/stalls/all kinds of Chinese restaurants, etc.), if they do not pay attention to Clean diet, it is easy to vomit, diarrhea, acute gastroenteritis and other kinds of gastrointestinal diseases.
6, poor eating habits: children’s eating habits are not developed, many children play with toys, watch TV, play a variety of electronic products (smart phones / ipad / game consoles, etc.) when eating, attention can not focus, long down, slow rhythm of eating, can not eat on their own, need to be fed by parents, and easy to picky food, poor appetite, the face is less florid, not rosy, even atrophy, poor resistance, easy to get sick.
From the family care point of view, we need to strengthen the daily care of children from the following aspects.
I. Dietary care
From a dietary point of view, first of all, we must be willing to “hard” on children, starting from the habits, healthy and moderate diet. 1, how to eat in summer
First of all, in summer, change the cold food for room temperature summer diet, such as room temperature watermelon, green bean soup, sour plum soup, etc., the amount should not be greedy, the reason is the above, the hotter the weather, the less the inner yang, the ability to resist external evil (germs) is weaker, so should not eat cold.
Secondly, children’s bitter summer appetite is not good, you can prepare a little appetizer for each meal, such as cold cucumber shreds (with boiling water Dan Dan a both to maintain the crispness of cucumbers and play a bacteriostatic role), or eggplant steamed and eaten cold, put ginger garlic and sugar salt and vinegar, acid slightly sweet taste, children will love to eat. Wuhan people will do a lot of cold dishes, to be able to have one or two appetizing cold dishes every day, but remember that cold dishes must be over boiling water to ensure hygiene.
Once again summer heat and moisture diffuse, stay in the air conditioning room for a long time, the pores are tightly closed, the body such as damp heat can not be emitted, easy to accumulate into disease, so you should eat more water, damp food, such as barley porridge, red bean soup. Air conditioning can also bring the spleen and stomach disorder, so you need to eat more food to enhance the function of the spleen and stomach, such as tomatoes can produce thirst, stomach and appetite.
Finally, ginger has sweating and relieving the table, warm stomach to stop vomiting, detoxification of three effects, especially suitable for three types of “air conditioning disease”: blowing air conditioning outside the cold and cough children, you can boil some hot ginger soup with a little salt and vinegar, and then soak a towel with it, wringing it out, put it on the back of the lung point and the front of the chest Tanzhong point, repeated several times to relieve the symptoms; due to abdominal cold For children with abdominal pain and diarrhea, apply the above “ginger towel” to the navel area to relieve pain and diarrhea.
Note: 1.
1. The diet mentioned in this article is generally suitable for children over 3 years old unless otherwise specified. Younger children such as infants (within 1 year old) and babies (1-3 years old), whose spleen and stomach cannot digest too much miscellaneous food, need to be more careful with their diet.
2, external application method needs to identify hot and cold, if the child’s tongue color is very light, the throat is not red, and the tongue coating is not thick then it is appropriate to use ginger for the umbilical cord.
3.Acupoint positioning.
①Lung Yu point: in the back, 1.5 inches next to the spinous process of the third thoracic vertebra. Simple acupuncture point: in the back, at the midpoint of the medial line of the scapulae near the most prominent part of the spine (i.e., scapulae gland) on both sides, 1.5 inches from each side.
② stanzhong point: in the chest, the front median line, flat fourth intercostal, the two nipples in line with the midpoint
2, how to eat in summer and autumn
Chinese medicine believes that children’s physiology is often deficient spleen, the last 18 days of summer each year (July 29-August 15), that is, the current is the long summer (spring, summer, autumn and winter, the last 18 days each), this is the main spleen meridian running time, diet can give children appropriate to eat some of the spleen diet, such as cattle is the central spleen earth, beef is more suitable for this time to eat, similar to the spleen earth, there are potatoes, white lentils, sweet potatoes, coix seeds, mountain, and so on. Sweet potatoes, coix seeds, yams, taro, dates and so on.
Long summer tip: Chinese medicine says long summer refers to the five seasons corresponding to the time: spring February 13 to April 25, summer May 14 to July 28, autumn August 16 to October 28, winter November 16 to January 25, long summer January 26 to February 12, April 26 to May 13, July 29 to August 15, October 29 to November 15 .
3. How to eat in autumn
In autumn, Wuhan still has a period of “autumn tiger”, this time the high temperature weather is not just say no, but the atmosphere is not as powerful as the summer heat and humidity, began to slowly dry, autumn is Yang Ming dry gold. This is the right time to eat some food to supplement the lung gas, Chinese medicine has “five colors into five flavors”, meaning that the five elements of the five organs correspond to five different colors, autumn in the five organs of the lungs, in the color is white, so you can eat some white food, such as lily, silver fungus, lotus seeds, white radish, yam, etc. to benefit the lung gas.
In particular, the radish has the effect of smooth gas, eliminating food, stopping cough, resolving phlegm, generating fluid, removing dryness, dispersing silt, detoxifying and diuretic, so folklore has the saying that “radish is ginseng after autumn” and “radish is small ginseng”, which not only has high therapeutic value, but also is nutritious. Rich in nutrition. The seeds are also called “lycopodium” in Chinese medicine, which is a traditional Chinese medicine, has the effect of eliminating food and flatulence, lowering gas and resolving phlegm.
4, individualized recipes
Some children like sweet and sour taste, some like the taste of heavy salty, and some like spicy, many parents pay attention to the diet light, this principle is right, but do not ignore the taste, if the child likes a certain taste, it means that its physique is the lack of this taste, so the child loves to eat, this is the problem of physical endowment in Chinese medicine. This is when parents need to observe the summary themselves and figure out a set of recipes for their children to.
I have seen some mothers in order to children’s diet, daily changes in the recipe is not the same: light and one or two flavorful dishes, vegetables and meat with reasonable, nutritious, the main food is also slightly changed, the child is very happy to eat, this is the mind of parents.
Second, the heatstroke conditioning care.
1.Tips to prevent heatstroke
① Juice, cola, Sprite, soft drinks, tea drinks, functional sports drinks, etc., contain more saccharin and electrolytes, drinking more will be a bad stimulus for children whose stomach and intestines are fragile, affecting digestion and appetite. Therefore, you should drink more plain water or light salt (sugar) water in summer.
②Thirst should not be drunk after the binge. Slightly older children after exercise, smaller children after sweating, should not drink a lot of plain water, should be properly supplemented with some light salt (sugar) water, because a lot of sweating so that the body lost too much salt, such as not timely replenishment of salt, so that the body of water, salt ratio is seriously out of balance, resulting in metabolic disorders.
③ The strongest time of the sun’s short-wave radiation is 10-15 points (especially 14 points), you should try to avoid going out during this time, you must go out, play the sun umbrella, summer clothing to light color is good.
④ Diet should not be too light. Summer human activity is long, sweating, consumption, should be appropriate to eat chicken, duck, lean meat, fish and other nutritious food to meet the body’s metabolic needs.
⑤ nap time should not be long. To more than 3 years old children within 1 hour is appropriate, 1-3 years old children 1-2 hours is appropriate. Nap time should not be too long, the central nervous system will deepen inhibition, the relative reduction in blood flow in the brain will slow down the metabolic process, resulting in waking up uncomfortable and more sleepy; and even if the weather is hot, nap in the abdomen covered with a little towel quilt or quilt, to prevent the cool air to enter; avoid napping in the penetrating breeze or wind, because the body in the sleep of the thermoregulatory center function is reduced, the child is easy to wake up with a cold The disease.
(6) should not be equipped with metal jewelry. Some metals in metal decorations stick to sweat, when worn, the skin in contact with may appear slightly red or itchy and other symptoms, easily triggered by contact dermatitis.
2.How to open the air conditioning
① Summer should avoid heat stroke such as hyperthermia due to high indoor temperatures. If the indoor temperature is too high, the appropriate use of air conditioning, do not blow directly at the child, to the child’s hands and feet warm and no sweat on the back so that it is appropriate. Especially now the high temperature weather, home air conditioning long open not close, must pay attention to wear cotton thin long-sleeved long pants, even for often sick children also wear socks, do not let children play barefoot on the tile floor! “Cold from the bottom of the feet” is the meaning of this. Sleep with the air conditioner on, and cover your belly with a thin quilt to avoid getting cold. Remember to feed your child water to drink, but of course, you can not let the child stay under the air conditioning all day, so as not to affect the child’s future resistance; when the air conditioning off, be sure to open the windows, so that the indoor air circulation.
② air conditioning indoor and outdoor temperature difference should not be too large, the indoor temperature at 26-29 ℃ is appropriate, generally the room temperature down to 26-29 ℃ can be. The use of air conditioning indoor and outdoor temperature difference of no more than 5 degrees is appropriate, even if the weather is hot, air conditioning indoor temperature should not be to 24 degrees below.
③ avoid heat after “fast cooling”. Children are active, hot summer out and back home, the whole body is sweaty, parents like to open the full electric fan air conditioning, or immediately give the child a bath, which will make the whole body pores quickly closed, the body heat is difficult to disperse, so that the child’s skin pores open and close without degree, prone to disease.
3, how to blow the electric fan?
Summer is too hot, in addition to air conditioning, electric fans are also essential, but how to use electric fans to be healthier?
①The wind speed of the fan should not be too high, the best indoor wind speed control at 0.2-0.5 m / s.
② electric fans should not be blown directly at children.
③ the wind should not be turned on too much during sleep, so as not to catch a cold or fever.
④ it is not advisable to keep the electric fan on for a long time, and it is recommended that the timing should be about 1 hour.
⑤ The best position of the electric fan is about 2 meters away from the child.