The main causes of yin deficiency and internal heat in children include prolonged treatment of diseases, insufficient endowment (poor congenital constitution and function), and excessive use of warm and dry medicines.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidneys store essence, and various diseases that remain untreated for a long time will gradually deplete kidney essence, and if the depletion of kidney essence is not effectively replenished, yin deficiency and internal heat will gradually appear.
Insufficient nutrition during pregnancy, excessive fatigue or premature delivery of the fetus can lead to fetal under-endowment, some people will show kidney yang deficiency (lack of yang energy in the kidneys), and some people will show yin deficiency and internal heat, and this difference has a certain relationship with the body type.
Some children are not well endowed from childhood, showing deficiency of kidney yang and cold constitution, the treatment plan is mainly to warm and tonify kidney yang (warming and replenishing kidney yang qi), while warming and tonifying kidney yang medication, if the dosage can not be grasped well, overdose will damage the yin fluids, and symptoms of yin deficiency and internal heat will appear.
Once a child develops symptoms of yin deficiency and internal heat, it is recommended that he or she seeks out a Chinese medicine practitioner for diagnosis and adjustment, rather than blindly using medication.