Fire in babies is one of the most common problems that bother mothers. Not only does it cause pharyngitis, stomatitis, upper respiratory tract infections and other diseases, but improper treatment can even lead to pneumonia, which can threaten the health and life of babies. What causes fire in babies? Is it a disease? How does modern medicine explain the symptoms of fire? What should parents do to solve the problem?
I. Dry stool
Survey data: up to 59.18% of babies with fire manifested as dry stools.
Pediatric constipation refers to the baby stool dry and hard, longer intervals, the number of bowel movements reduced, a few days or even a few weeks; or stool every day, but dry as a ball, difficult to discharge, or pain in the anus when defecating and do not dare to defecate, resulting in pain every time the stool, the stool is more hard and difficult to discharge.
Causes of baby constipation many reasons, can be divided into two categories: a functional constipation, such as parents to the baby eat too fine food, the intestinal tract long-term lack of coarse fiber stimulation, intestinal peristalsis slowed down and lead to constipation; baby plain eating less, digestion of the residue is less, the natural number of stools; or food containing too much protein, containing too little sugar, feces in the intestinal tract stay too long. Moisture is absorbed by the intestines can make the stool dry; baby is not trained into the habit of defecation on time, so that the conditioned reflex of defecation is difficult to form, causing constipation. Another type of constipation caused by congenital intestinal abnormalities, such as congenital megacolon, anorectal stenosis, hypothyroidism and other diseases, this kind of constipation through the general conditioning can not be cured, must be surgically corrected or medical drug treatment. Clinically, the majority of constipation in babies are functional. What people often call “fire” actually refers to the difficulty in defecation due to unbalanced diet, over-eating of fatty, sweet and thick flavors, or failure to develop the habit of regular bowel movements, accumulation of heat in the stomach and intestines, and a slight cold will only cause changes in digestive function. So that the fire is the specific performance of internal heat.
Constipation because of the dry and hard stool lumps lead to pain in the anus when defecating, resulting in baby fear of defecation, stool in the body to stay in the water further absorption, fecal lumps more hard difficult to defecate to form a vicious circle, but also can cause fever, mouth ulcers and other diseases.
Baby’s dry stool is mainly due to too little water intake, or too little fiber intake in young children’s food. The number of bowel movements per day varies from baby to baby. Most babies will have a bowel movement after each drink of milk, which is the result of the baby’s abnormally active digestive system through the body’s gastrointestinal reflexes after eating.
Sometimes, it is normal for a breastfed baby to have a bowel movement only once a week for 3-6 weeks. As long as the stool is still soft (less hard than peanut butter), the baby has normal weight gain, eats regularly and has no other discomfort, this frequency of bowel movements cannot be considered as constipation and there is no need to worry.
If the baby is formula fed, he/she should have at least one bowel movement per day. If your baby has fewer bowel movements, or if your baby shows effort during bowel movements, you should be alert to the possibility of constipation and consult your doctor for solutions to help your baby get rid of constipation.
Regardless of the feeding method, if the baby’s stool is hard or dry, it indicates that the baby has insufficient fluid intake or may lose too much water due to illness, fever, heat, etc. If your baby has been fed with complementary foods, dry and hard stools indicate that your baby may have eaten too much food that causes constipation and exceeds the digestive and absorption capacity of your baby’s intestines.
In addition, the dryness of the baby’s stool is not always a fire, look for other reasons. The first reason, insufficient breast milk. Breast milk is the most suitable food for babies, it is easy to digest and absorb, the residue is already less. If you don’t have enough breast milk, your baby will eat less and your poop will be less and thicker. Letting your baby suckle more can stimulate the secretion of breast milk. If there is indeed not enough breastmilk, formula can be added.
The second reason is that the ingredients in the formula are not suitable for your baby. Formula milk with too much protein and fat and not enough carbohydrates will make it difficult for your baby’s stomach and intestines to digest and absorb, making the stools dry. If the formula contains too much calcium, the excess calcium will combine with protein to form solid fecal lumps and with fat to form soap lumps, and the stool will be dry and hard. And if the sugar content in the formula is too little, it will make the baby’s intestinal peristalsis weaken, so that the poop can not be discharged in time, causing dryness.
Parenting focus.
1, drink more water.
2, constipation is also one of the symptoms of formula allergy, if you find that your baby is not suitable for a certain formula, you can try to change to another brand. In severe cases, you need to go to the hospital to check if you are allergic to powdered formula.
3. When preparing formula milk for your baby, make sure to follow the instructions and don’t make the formula too thick, and remember to give your baby some water between meals. Drinking less water makes it easier to catch fire.
4. For babies over 6 months old who have added complementary foods, you can increase the intake of dietary fiber.
Second, the urine yellow less
Statistics: 54.97% of the baby fire performance for urine less, yellow.
The normal urine of children should be light yellow, no obvious smell. If the baby due to drink less water, more sweating in summer, urine volume is reduced, urine yellow is normal, if the fever is higher, accompanied by dry stools, yellow thick tongue, sour breath, urine dark yellow, heavy testy, belongs to the people called “fire”, is also a manifestation of heat accumulation in the spleen and stomach. If there is also stinging pain in urination and frequent urination, Chinese medicine believes that it is dampness and heat evil toxin injected into the bladder, which is commonly known as urinary tract infection, you need to go to the hospital to do urine tests and the corresponding examination. If the urine is as dark as tea-colored, it should not be taken lightly, except for jaundiced hepatitis.
Water is a precious life substance, and babies have about 70% of their body weight in water. Small babies have a simple diet, but they poop and urinate a lot, sweat a lot, and consume more water as they breathe, so the younger they are, the more they need to guard against dehydration. Babies are not very consistent in their urination pattern, which may be every 1 to 3 hours or only 4 to 6 times a day. If your baby is sick and has a fever, or when the weather is hot, his urine output will decrease, perhaps even by half, and this is normal. Normal urination should not be accompanied by painful sensations. Therefore, if you notice any uncomfortable symptoms when your child urinates, take your child to the hospital promptly to rule out urinary tract infections or other problems.
Normal baby’s urine is pale yellow to dark yellow, the more concentrated the urine is, the darker it will be, and the less water your baby drinks, the more concentrated the urine will be relatively. Sometimes, you may also notice pink staining on your baby’s diaper and panic thinking that your baby has blood in his urine. In fact, these pink traces are usually urine crystals that form when urine is highly concentrated. Usually, as long as your baby can urinate up to 4 times a day, you don’t have to worry too much about this concentrated urine, but if this pink urine persists, you should pay attention to it and see your doctor promptly.
Parenting focus.
1, drink more water to flush out the urine concentration.
2, should be several times a day, small sips of water to supplement the body’s water absorption needs.
3, fever, diarrhea, need to supplement the rehydration saline.
Third, there are many eye droppings
Statistics: 49.49% of the babies with fire are suffering from eye boils.
It is often said that the eyes are the windows to the soul, the eyes are called eyes in Chinese medicine, the eyes include the eyelids, eyeballs and pupils black eyes and eye canthus.
The essence of the five organs (heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys) are all injected into the eyes, and the eyes are connected to the five organs. If the corners of the baby’s eyes are red and swollen with secretions (eye droppings), it means that the baby’s fire is mainly heart fire, and in addition to eye droppings, there will be irritability, crying, poor appetite, night crying, dry stools and other manifestations. This is mainly related to poor diet, thick clothing and lack of attention to eye hygiene.
Dry stools in babies are mainly due to too little water intake or too little fiber intake in young children’s food. The number of bowel movements per day varies from baby to baby. Most babies will have a bowel movement after each drink of milk, which is the result of the baby’s abnormally active digestive system through the body’s gastrointestinal reflexes after eating.
Sometimes, it is normal for a breastfed baby to have a bowel movement only once a week for 3-6 weeks. As long as the stool is still soft (less hard than peanut butter), the baby has normal weight gain, eats regularly and has no other discomfort, this frequency of bowel movements cannot be considered as constipation and there is no need to worry.
If the baby is formula fed, he/she should have at least one bowel movement per day. If your baby has fewer bowel movements, or if your baby shows effort during bowel movements, you should be alert to the possibility of constipation and consult your doctor for solutions to help your baby get rid of constipation.
Regardless of the feeding method, if the baby’s stool is hard or dry, it indicates that the baby has insufficient fluid intake or may lose too much water due to illness, fever, heat, etc. If your baby has been fed with complementary foods, dry and hard stools indicate that your baby may have eaten too much food that causes constipation and exceeds the digestive and absorption capacity of your baby’s intestines.
In addition, the dryness of the baby’s stool is not always a fire, look for other reasons. The first reason, insufficient breast milk. Breast milk is the most suitable food for babies, it is easy to digest and absorb, the residue is already less. If you don’t have enough breast milk, your baby will eat less and your poop will be less and thicker. Letting your baby suckle more can stimulate the secretion of breast milk. If there is indeed not enough breastmilk, formula can be added.
The second reason is that the ingredients in the formula are not suitable for your baby. Formula milk with too much protein and fat and not enough carbohydrates will make it difficult for your baby’s stomach and intestines to digest and absorb, making the stools dry. If the formula contains too much calcium, the excess calcium will combine with protein to form solid fecal lumps and with fat to form soap lumps, and the stool will be dry and hard. And if the sugar content in the formula is too little, it will make the baby’s intestinal peristalsis weaken, so that the poop can not be discharged in time, causing dryness.
Parenting focus.
1, drink more water.
2, constipation is also one of the symptoms of formula allergy, if you find that your baby is not suitable for a certain formula, you can try to change to another brand. In severe cases, you need to go to the hospital to check if you are allergic to powdered formula.
3. When preparing formula milk for your baby, make sure to follow the instructions and don’t make the formula too thick, and remember to give your baby some water between meals. Drinking less water makes it easier to catch fire.
4. For babies over 6 months old who have added complementary foods, you can increase the intake of dietary fiber.
Four, yellow and thick tongue moss
Statistics: 35.08% of babies with fire manifested as a yellow and thick tongue coating.
Chinese medicine believes that the changes in the tongue can reflect the health of the internal organs. Thick tongue coating is a reflection of poor water transfer and metabolism. When healthy, the child’s tongue is medium in size, light red in texture and thin white tongue coating. In a normal state, the tongue moss looks thin and white due to chewing, swallowing and the flushing of saliva and diet, which constantly removes material from the surface of the tongue. When a child is ill, the tongue becomes thicker due to a decrease in eating, a consequent decrease in chewing and tongue movements, and a decrease in saliva production. If the tongue is thicker or if the tongue is significantly thicker in the middle and root of the tongue, most of the time the disease has penetrated deep into the body, or the child has food accumulation and phlegm stagnation. A thin to thick tongue coating indicates that the condition is worsening.
Tongue moss is a thin, white, moist layer of moss on the surface of the tongue, mainly composed of shed keratinized epithelium, saliva, bacteria, food debris and exuded white blood cells.
The child’s tongue is a barometer of the child’s health, and the mother should know how to simply look at the tongue. The mother mainly observes the three aspects of the baby’s tongue body, tongue texture and tongue coating. A normal child’s tongue is soft, light red and moist, stretching freely, and has a thin dry and moist tongue moss. If the baby’s tongue is white, it is cold, yellow for heat, and white and greasy for cold, phlegm and food accumulation. If the tongue is yellow and greasy, it is due to dampness and heat, or milk and food; if the tongue is flaky, like a map, sometimes hidden, and does not heal after a long time, it is mostly due to the lack of qi and yin of the stomach. If the baby’s tongue is thick and greasy, the mother must pay attention not to give the baby too much clothing, diet should be light, drink more water and eat more vegetables and fruits, keep the bowels open, if there is abdominal distention and full mouth with unpleasant smell indicates the presence of food accumulation, you can use hawthorn and malt to boil water to drink to disappear the stagnation.
V. Crying and restlessness
Statistics: 32.14% of babies are prone to crying and 35.87% are prone to moodiness.
Normal children will also cry several times a day, for those who do not express their desires and requirements in words baby, can send a message to caregivers through body movements and expressions, the most direct way is to cry. Therefore, it is very important to understand the reasons why babies cry and give timely and appropriate treatment, which will help children’s emotional stability, intelligent development and physical health. Some research data suggest that there are 16 types of cries that indicate physiological cries, needy cries, hunger cries and demand cries in children. No matter what kind of cry, it means something and needs to be taken seriously. A baby with fire cries more often than not to indicate physical discomfort or to seek affection and comfort from mommy.
A normal child’s face should be red and lustrous, but if the face is red and red after exercise or wearing too much dry heat, there is also stored food that hurts the stomach and causes heat in the spleen and stomach, the face is red or one side of the face is red and red at the same time can be accompanied by heat in the hands and feet, irritable crying. According to the theory of Chinese medicine, the change of the five colors can often reflect the situation of the internal organs: the left cheek belongs to the liver, the right cheek belongs to the lung, the nose belongs to the spleen, the skeleton belongs to the kidney, and the forehead belongs to the heart. If the left and right cheeks are red and red most likely suggest that the lung and stomach heat, to immediately clean up the fire of the lung and stomach, otherwise it can cause fever, cough appetite loss and other diseases.
Parenting focus.
For the fire baby irritable crying must be patient and careful to find the cause of crying, fully understand and comfort. Small babies should pay attention to whether there are diapers need to be changed, whether the clothes are too thick? The baby has a mouth sore… There are also children who are not sick but just irritable and crying, mainly because the heart meridian has heat available light bamboo leaves or fresh lotus leaves boiled water to drink to remove heat and annoyance.