Children’s palms and feet fever may be yin deficiency, food accumulation (indigestion of food and stagnation in the stomach), wind-heat cold caused by the family members of the child to take the child to the hospital to improve the relevant examination and treatment of the cause.
Yin deficiency: Yin deficiency generates internal heat and weakens the function of moistening and nourishing. Children may have symptoms such as heat in the hands and feet, depression, irritability, dry stools, emaciation, dry throat and tongue, etc. Medications should be prescribed according to the patient’s clinical symptoms. Yin deficiency is categorized into lung yin deficiency, heart yin deficiency, and liver/kidney yin deficiency (deficiency of yin in the liver and kidneys), etc., which should be guided by a TCM doctor after identification.
Food stagnation: If the child’s spleen is not healthy and unable to transport water, grain and essence, resulting in food stagnation in the body, which leads to symptoms such as heat in the hands and feet, poor appetite, yellowish skin, vomiting of food, and dry stools, etc., the child can be treated with spleen pills, which have the effect of strengthening the spleen, eliminating food stagnation and facilitating the digestion of food, etc., under the guidance of a doctor.
Wind-heat colds: wind-heat evils invade the guardian surface, causing heat and depression of the muscles and tissues, the guardian surface is out of harmony, and the lungs are not clear and clean, the child may show symptoms such as head swelling and headache, eye redness, coughing, sore throat, nasal congestion, yellow runny nose, heat in the hands and feet, and dry mouth, etc. It can be treated with Yin Qiao San, which is a pungent, cool, and antidepressant treatment with additions and subtractions under the guidance of a doctor.
If a child has fever in the hands and feet, it is recommended that the family take him to the doctor in time, and use the right medication under the diagnosis of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, not self-medication.