A normal healthy child’s tongue should be medium in size, soft, light red and moist, stretch and move freely, speak clearly, and have a thin, light moss on the surface of the tongue that is moderately dry and moist, with no odor in the mouth. Once the child is ill, the tongue and tongue coating will change accordingly. In fact, the tongue is like a “barometer” that reflects the health of the child. When a child has a fever, the first sign of a fever is a shortened tongue, a red tongue that often sticks out of the mouth, and a tongue with little moss, or a tongue with little moss that is dry. If the body temperature is high and the tongue is reddish, it means that the child’s fever is heavy and depletes fluid, so the child will often ask for water. If it is accompanied by dry stools, there is often a foul odor in the mouth. This often happens in the early stages of some upper respiratory infections or infectious diseases, and mothers should pay attention to it. In children with severe fever, you can also see thick red mangoes on the tongue, as if they were prunes in the market, this “prune tongue” is mostly seen in children suffering from scarlet fever or Kawasaki disease. The child should be treated for the primary disease that caused the fever, and physical cooling or oral antipyretic drugs should be administered in a timely manner. 2. Pay attention to giving the child more plain water and less oily food and sweeter fruits. Children do not like to eat when the little tongue Some children are usually very able to eat, once they see the favorite food will eat a lot. This makes the child eat too much and too full, and the digestive function is disturbed. Often, the next day, the child may not like to eat, and some children appear bloated, pain, and in serious cases, vomiting, vomiting for the previous day to eat and not yet digested food, the smell of sour. Smaller children will cause diarrhea due to food accumulation, then observe the child’s tongue, you can see a thick layer of yellow-white dirt on the tongue, tongue moss sticky thick, not easy to scrape away, while the mouth will have a sour and smelly smell of filth. This situation is mostly caused by the usual over-eating, or eating greasy food, the spleen and stomach digestive function is poor and caused. Treatment countermeasures: 1, when the child appears this tongue, the diet should be lighter. For children with a particularly good appetite, you should promptly remind each meal in moderation, so that the intestines and stomach get sufficient rest. 2, if the child once the stagnation of milk and food, can be used as appropriate to have the effect of elimination of food drugs, elimination of food and stagnation, to ensure the smooth passage of stool. Special tips: 1, the newborn baby’s tongue red, no moss and breast-fed babies creamy white moss is a normal phenomenon, the mother should not be too nervous. 2, some children eat certain drugs or food, often will also make the tongue moss discoloration, such as eating red candy tongue moss can be red, eat plums, olives tongue moss will become black, drink orange water, eat egg yolk tongue moss will become yellow thick, these are not disease moss. Generally speaking, the color of dyed moss is brighter and lighter, while the disease moss does not fade easily, you can use this to distinguish, do not mistake the normal tongue moss for the disease moss and false alarm. 3, infants and young children are very weak, the discovery of abnormalities to go to the hospital in a timely manner, for older children, identify the changes in their tongue quality can be used as a reference for the child’s health, but absolutely not according to the situation completely on their own, if necessary, must go to the hospital for treatment.