Nowadays, new mothers are most afraid of their children’s malnutrition, suffering and freezing, but they do not understand why their children are so delicate and sickly when they are well-clothed and fat. In fact, the reason is that the child is too well fed and too warmly dressed.
”To have a child safe, you need to have three portions of hunger and cold”. This proverb is from the Ming Dynasty medical book “Wan Mi Zhai”, is a common sense of daily health care for children, meaning that to ensure the safety and health of children, you can not give children too much to eat, dress too warm. However, for most urban families with superior living conditions, feeding and clothing their children has long been no problem, and today’s children are simply surrounded by an abundance of food and clothing. In this case, who can still think of this proverb?
Among the five organs of the human body, children are born with three deficiencies and two surpluses in Chinese medicine, meaning that the spleen is often deficient, the kidneys are often deficient, the lungs are often deficient, and the heart and liver are surplus. Children have poor spleen and stomach transport function, although they need water and grain nutrition, but they cannot eat more, and after eating too much, they tend to have indigestion. Children’s lungs are very delicate and prone to respiratory infections, causing inflammation of the lungs such as cough, asthma, fever, etc. Therefore, children should not catch cold and flu. However, when dressed too warmly, children are prone to sweating, and after sweating, they are prone to getting cold. Therefore, children are generally sick with the following two kinds of diseases: one is wind-cold and other respiratory diseases, and the other is food stagnation caused by digestive tract diseases; more than 70% of pediatric diseases are concentrated in the two major systems of respiratory and digestive tracts, the reason is that parents spoil their children, giving them too much to eat and dress too warmly. Moreover, pediatric cough, asthma and pneumonia tend to be recurrent and not easily cured. Since the spleen and lungs are not functioning properly, they eventually affect the kidneys, causing the development of the kidneys in children to be affected, resulting in situations such as short stature and thinness.
Western medicine also has the same claim, eat too much easily increase the load on the gastrointestinal tract of children, whether the peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract or the secretion of digestive juices, can not meet the digestion and absorption of too much food, so that the stomach is bloated, stomach pain, diarrhea and other problems. Moreover, over-eating will stimulate the gastrointestinal tract to strengthen blood flow, which will increase the burden on the heart. If a child is dressed too warmly, he or she will easily catch a cold after sweating, and the cold will cause complications such as pneumonia and myocarditis.
So, how do children dress appropriately?
Many parents believe that children need to wear more, to wear to sweat to do. I do not know, children wear too much or often sweat, the pores are in a dilated state, it is easy to get cold and sick. That is why it is said, “For a child to be safe, he must bring three points of hunger and cold.” The child’s clothes should be increased or decreased according to the seasonal changes, because he is a pure Yang body, born with fire power, do not need to cover. Especially in autumn should exercise the child’s ability to withstand cold, a cover instead of easy to get sick on fire. In the same environment, children wear slightly thicker clothes than adults can, feel the child’s back with your hands, if warm and smooth without sweat on the appropriate thickness of clothing.
In winter, the upper body can choose cotton underwear, sweaters. If it’s not too cold, wear a thicker cardigan jacket; if it’s cold, add a cotton or down undershirt; if it’s colder, wear a down jacket. Underneath, in addition to underwear, you can wear thicker outer pants, and increase or decrease woolen pants according to the weather conditions.
For children who are active, they should take off their outer clothes when they are active and playing, so that the heat generated during exercise can be dissipated in time. You should put on clothes in time to avoid getting cold when you stop activities. Babies’ warmth should focus on the abdomen, waist and feet, while the head does not need to be covered too much, except in cold outdoor areas. For girls’ outer pants, a round crotch should be preferred. Before learning to use zippers, it is better not to use zippers for boys’ pants.
The skin of infants and children is more delicate, and the sensitivity of thermoregulation is higher, and the body temperature changes faster. Therefore, it is advisable to dress in soft, comfortable, warm and breathable cotton. Don’t give newborns new cotton clothes or bedding that are hot and yang. Children’s armpits, groin, neck, fossa and other skin folds and more sweaty parts, pay more attention to the softness of clothing. And pay attention to keep the local clean and dry. Parents should promptly check the local skin for abrasion and breakage.
How to pay attention to the diet?
Diet should pay attention to the acid-alkaline balance, fish, poultry, eggs, rice and noodles are acidic. Vegetables, fruits, beans and products are alkaline. There is an automatic acid-base balance system in the human body, as long as the diet is diversified, eat grains and cereals, you can maintain the acid-base balance; children drink a small amount of soup before meals, like doing activities before exercise, so that the digestive organs are active, so that the digestive glands secrete a sufficient amount of digestive juices, can make children eat well, and will feel comfortable after meals; eat a good breakfast The plan of the day is in the morning, the good or bad breakfast is related to the growth and development of children. If not paid attention to, children will be sluggish, low energy and other protective inhibition in school, and hypoglycemia occurs. Breakfast accounts for 30% of the total daily intake, lunch accounts for 40%. Dinner accounts for 30%; do not let children drink pure juice before lunch, juice is easy to absorb nutrient-rich. But 40 minutes before lunch do not let children drink juice. Because of this, children will eat less staple food at lunch, and the intake of the day did not increase, but lost in the normal lunch of the nutrition obtained.
Nowadays, every family has only one “baby” and hopes to have healthy children. And young couples in the feeding of young children but fear that the food variety is not good, all day long fish, meat, milk and eggs or often go to eat some fast food, these fried food high protein, calorie content is very high, the child’s digestive system is not yet well developed, poor self-control, often eat too much, increase the burden on the child’s spleen and stomach and lead to “stagnation”. The stagnant diet results in poor appetite, vomiting, bad breath and thick tongue coating. If you are not treated properly, the stagnation will be prolonged for a long time, and the function of the spleen and stomach will be seriously damaged, which will lead to nutritional and growth disorders and turn into “noma”.
The most important thing to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of the situation.
1. Dietary adjustment method.
The key to adjusting the diet is to reduce the total amount of food, abstain from snacks, avoid chocolate, peanuts and other fatty foods, choose light and tasty, easy to digest, rich in vitamins and protein food, such as tofu, fresh vegetables, millet porridge, soft noodles, a small amount of eggs, fish, etc.
2.Chinese herbal medicine treatment method.
Chinese medicine has a very good effect on the treatment of food stagnation. Chinese medicine classifies food stagnation into two categories: deficiency and reality. Where the duration of the disease is relatively short, abdominal distension and refusal to press, crying and restlessness, or accompanied by low fever, most of the actual evidence, treatment to eliminate food and guide stagnation, can be used to Baohe pill plus reduction, food accumulation is heavier, constipation, can be used to Hovenor and guide stagnation pill.
3.Medicinal regimen.
(1) such as 50g of rice, 100g of white radish, 100g of carrot porridge.
(2) grain buds, hawthorn, betel nut, hedgehog shells each equal parts of the grinded powder punch, 1-2g each time, three times a day.
4, massage and massage method.
(1) Chiropractic.
Let the child lie face down. Parents with two hands in the thumb, index finger and middle finger pinch its spine on both sides, with the pinch with the press, from the bottom to the top, and then from the top to the bottom, pinch 3-5 times, once a night.
(2) knead the middle of the stomach.
One half of the line between the middle of the chest and the navel, that is, the middle epigastric point. Parents use the root of the palm of the hand to rotate and knead, twice a day.
(3) Massage Yongquan.
The heart of the foot is the Yongquan point. Parents to thumb pressure Chung Quan point, rotating massage boarding 30-50 times a day twice.
If children eat too much, stagnant internal heat, coupled with sudden changes in climate, clothing is not timely, bathing in the cold, sitting and lying when the wind can lead to colds.