Some parents may feel that their babies are not sick, or have recovered from their last illness, so why do they need to take care of them? In his long-term clinical practice, Sun Simiao, a great medical doctor of the Tang Dynasty, proposed that there are three levels of illnesses: “The top doctor treats the illnesses that are not yet sick, the middle doctor treats the illnesses that want to be sick, and the bottom doctor treats the illnesses that are already sick. It is repeatedly warned to nip the disease in the bud. The baby’s physical condition is the basis of the baby’s morbidity, is the internal cause of disease, so in the baby before the onset of disease should be planned, purposeful physical conditioning of the baby to reduce the occurrence of baby diseases. For example, some babies have a deficient qi constitution and suffer from recurrent whistling infections, and their families suffer from the psychological pressure and financial burden. The doctor, based on their qi deficiency type of physique, took such as Chinese medicine oral, dietary regimen, exercise and other means of physical conditioning, after a period of time, the baby recurrent whistle infection episodes will be significantly reduced, the body immunity slowly increased.
Therefore, the physical conditioning is very necessary. However, “freezing three feet, not a day’s cold”, the formation of body type has a long-term accumulation process, to change it may take a longer process. This is something that parents need to be prepared for.
Baby body type classification
In general, the baby’s physique can be divided into two categories: calm and biased, and the common bias are.
1.Qi deficiency
A little activity is easy to sweat, shortness of breath, fatigue, susceptible to colds, lusterless, quiet and less active, crying / whispering, loss of appetite.
2.Yin deficiency
Red lips and dryness, red tongue with little fluid, dry stools, night sweating, facial flushing, thin body, hot hands and feet, dry skin.
3.Yang deficiency
Growth and development is slow, the body is fat, pale, lazy, sweating, fear of cold, less than loose stools, urination.
4.Qi and Yin deficiency quality
Thin and weak body, pale face, indifferent or impatient expression, lack of energy, less, dry mouth, dry skin, hot flashes and night sweats, hot hands and feet, restless sleep.
5.Yang-heat quality
Dry stools, easy to cry, irritable, yellow urine, fear of heat, red face, cold food, thirsty and drink.
6.Damp-heat
Red face, red lips, bad breath, sweating, sweating sticky hands, unpleasant stools.
7, phlegm damp quality
Obese body, coughing phlegm after a cold, sweating, skin eczema, rotten and sticky stool, turbid urine.
8.Allergic quality
Poor adaptability to season, climate, allergens and other external environment, blue around the eyes, coughing in the morning or at night, sneezing more often.
The above-mentioned types of constitution are relatively common, these types of constitution are generally dominated by a single occurrence, but there are also seen together, that is, some babies can see both types of physical characteristics. These body types are not set in stone, can be transformed into each other. For example, due to disease, or overdose of drugs, or diet and other mismanagement, the baby can also be transformed into a partial quality; phlegm-damp quality is often easy to turn into qi deficiency, qi deficiency can also see phlegm-damp; internal heat quality is easy to become qi and yin deficiency, qi and yin deficiency can also turn to see internal heat.
Comprehensive means to regulate the physique
The regulation of the baby’s constitution is a comprehensive approach. Mainly after identifying the baby’s physique, targeted medication, diet, psychological conditioning, exercise conditioning, adaptability to the environment conditioning and other methods, the baby’s physique for comprehensive conditioning. These methods can be used in combination, but also can be a method of the main.
Drug conditioning
Drug conditioning mainly refers to the characteristics of drugs to adjust the bias of the physique. For example, the medicine of nourishing Yin and clearing heat is used to regulate Yin deficiency, and the medicine of benefiting Qi is used to regulate Qi deficiency, etc.
Diet regulation
The influence of diet on the physique is very important. Diet here does not refer to one meal, but rather to long-term eating habits and the variety and amount of food eaten. Dietary conditioning mainly uses the characteristics of food and food nutrition to regulate the baby’s physique. For example, parents should be instructed to adjust the diet structure of the baby, to eat more cold food for babies with hot constitution and more hot food for babies with cold constitution, etc.
Psychological conditioning
It mainly refers to the psychological adjustment of the baby whose physique is in a biased state due to the long-term emotional distress, so as to improve the baby’s physique through psychological guidance, such as anorexia, urination, etc.
Exercise conditioning
Exercise is a good way to enhance physical fitness, especially for phlegm-damp type, qi-deficiency type and yang-deficiency type of baby’s physique, etc. can achieve the effect of improvement.
Adaptation to the environment
Babies tend to be weak in their ability to adapt to the environment, the slightest change in the environment will be sick, so improve the baby’s ability to adapt to the environment, help improve the baby’s physique. For example, for children with asthma who are sensitive to temperature changes, planned cold baths in summer can reduce the degree and number of attacks in autumn and winter when the temperature changes.
The most important and easy to do of all these means is dietary conditioning. Clinical observations have shown that: babies with congenital deficiencies can be strengthened if they are properly fed later in life. However, babies born with good health can also be weakened by improper diet and feeding. Reasonable dietary regimen can promote the internal organs, blood, fluid generation, beneficial to growth and development, enhance physical fitness and resistance to disease. For example, baby calcium deficiency, rickets is one of the common diseases, prevention and treatment of this disease in addition to the symptomatic calcium, vitamin D, can add more fish and shrimp and other seafood supplemental food to the child, because baby rickets Chinese medical evidence of spleen and kidney deficiency, and seawater salty, kidney, Yin, so the child can eat more fish and shrimp and other seafood, to play a certain role in supporting the treatment. On the contrary, if the diet is inappropriate, hunger and satiety are not normal, partial food, picky eating will damage the spleen and stomach. Clinically, it is common for some parents to spoil their babies too much, cold drinks, spicy, snacks, resulting in nutritional disorders, low health status of the baby, light constipation, anorexia, vomiting, abdominal discharge, serious spleen and kidney weakness, lack of Qi and blood biochemistry, resulting in nutritional disorders, slow development. Over time, the physique is biased. Therefore, the baby’s diet should be adjusted according to the quality of food, to identify the body type of food selection should be mentioned to the primary position of today’s child care. In the premise of identifying the body type to choose food, but also to educate the baby to overcome the poor eating habits of partial food, gluttony.
However, parents need to be reminded that there are misconceptions about dietary regimen. If you disregard your baby’s body type and only take the view of what is lacking, such as giving zinc and calcium deficient spleen deficiency susceptible children a lot of zinc and calcium supplementation, often the effect is not good, and even hurt the spleen and stomach caused by anorexia. For example, ginseng, jujube, longan meat is to supplement the spleen and stomach, strengthen the body and improve the immune function, but it is not suitable for babies with yin deficiency and fire, after eating yin more injury, deeper heat, red nostrils, nosebleeds, anorexia, dry stool, restlessness at night, but not to improve the body, strengthen the body, but counterproductive. Especially ginseng preparations can not be used as health food for babies, if the doctor prescribed such drugs in the Chinese medicine prescription, is due to the disease, and there are other drugs with, parents should not give their children “tonic”, otherwise it will cause the disadvantage of premature sexual maturity. There are more common such as pear, cold taste sweet, into the spleen, stomach, lung, so its efficacy and nutritional value with the role of nourishing yin and clearing the stomach, lungs and cough, but if the baby’s physique belongs to the spleen qi deficiency, phlegm and dampness does not change, then taking pear juice, pear paste are not suitable.