Often in the outpatient clinic or obstetrics ward, I met some parents holding a newborn or two or three months of the baby asked what to eat to remove “fire”, can give the child to drink “fire-clearing treasure”. “Fire” this everyone is very familiar with the word, the doohickey there is this explanation: “fire” for the folk slang, also known as “heat”, can be explained from the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, belongs to the traditional Chinese medicine Heat evidence category. Chinese medicine believes that the human body imbalance of yin and yang, internal fire, that is, will be on fire. Therefore, the so-called “fire” is to describe some of the symptoms of heat in the body, and the fire is the body’s yin and yang imbalance after the appearance of internal heat symptoms, specific symptoms such as red and swollen eyes, corners of the mouth, yellow urine, toothache, sore throat and so on. “Fire” is more likely to occur in dry climates and hot and humid weather. But why is there an imbalance of yin and yang in newborns and breastfeeding babies just a few days old? Symptom 1: Eye boogers. Many newborns, even two or three months old babies, from birth always one eye or both eyes always have yellow eye droppings. Today cleaned up, tomorrow still out, many parents think it is “fire”. In fact, this is a very common “tear duct obstruction”, mostly occurring after birth (neonatal period), manifested by a lot of eye discharge (can be yellow or white eye droppings). Parents are usually advised to give saline or tobramycin eye drops, and massage the tear duct area appropriately. The vast majority of babies will get better quickly. If the result is not good enough, the baby should be examined by a professional pediatric ophthalmologist, and if necessary, be given tear duct irrigation, tear duct probing, or even tear duct intubation and surgical treatment. This of course depends on the specific condition of the baby. Symptom 2: Constipation. Some babies, whether breastfed or artificially fed, always have recurring bowel movements only once every few days, an average of 2 to 3 days, up to a week. This is another symptom that parents think of as “fire”. The first half month of a normal baby’s life is the initial stage for parents to familiarize themselves with their baby’s physiological condition. Every baby is different. Most babies poop once a day, regardless of feeding style. There are also some babies who poop once every two days, but regularly. This situation is generally not recommended for special treatment. Most of them are functional and can gradually recover after adding complementary food. However, if the recurrence is always more than two or three days without a bowel movement, this time, in addition to simple symptomatic treatment, should be to the pediatric surgery to rule out some congenital intestinal diseases, such as congenital megacolon. Symptom three: not drinking water. There are some parents are always worried about ask: this child does not drink water, how to feed and feed into, just eat formula, must be on fire. In fact, for breast-feeding babies to speak, generally grasp the two principles: on-demand breastfeeding according to the baby’s needs, given breast milk or the appropriate ratio of formula; if the baby does not have fever or diarrhea, vomiting and other disease states, it is not generally recommended to feed water, especially not recommended to feed the sugar water or add the “fire-clearing treasure” of water. Because breast milk and formula provides enough water for the baby’s growth and development needs, so in the absence of disease, it is not recommended to feed water as a feeding task. In conclusion, breastfed babies generally show a variety of adult “fire” symptoms are not necessarily true “fire”. Breastmilk or formula is the only source of food for babies at a young age. Don’t add anything to your baby’s only food source such as “fire-cleaning” products just because of the so-called “fire”. The right way to deal with “fire” is to find out the cause.