Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach is the main organ of the body to digest, absorb and transfer its essence to the diet, as the saying goes, “the spleen is strong in all seasons and not subject to evil”, which means that babies with strong spleen and stomach function have a strong resistance and are less likely to get sick. How to take care of the gastrointestinal stomach stomach is a must for parents in the process of raising their babies. Physiological characteristics The stomach and intestines have the physiological functions of ripening, transforming, transmitting and absorbing water and grain essences, which are the main source of nutrients needed to sustain life activities after birth and the main material basis for the production of qi and blood, and the spleen and stomach are the basis of human nature and the source of qi and blood biochemistry. If the spleen and stomach are injured, the transportation and transformation will be disordered, and the source of transformation will be insufficient to produce qi and blood, so the qi and blood, fluids, organs, muscles, limbs and bones of the human body will be displaced, and all the diseases will start. “All diseases are born from the failure of the spleen and stomach”. During the childhood, because the internal organs are delicate and not yet developed, the body of the spleen and stomach is not yet complete, and the qi of the spleen and stomach is not yet strong, so it is easy for the parents to improperly feed the child, and the child’s diet does not know how to self-regulate, so there are abnormalities in the intake, decomposition, and transfer of the essence. As the child’s body is in a stage of rapid growth and development, the spleen is the source of Qi and blood biochemistry and needs to provide the material basis for the child’s rapid growth. Because of the physiological characteristics of children’s “spleen is often deficient,” its incidence ranks second. Anorexia is a common disease in pediatrics, characterized by long periods of aversion to eating and reduced food intake. It can develop in children of all ages, and is more common in children aged 1-6 years. The incidence is higher in urban children. 1.Consequences If anorexia is long-term, it can reduce the ability to resist disease and make them susceptible to other diseases, and long-term malnutrition can lead to anemia and stunted growth and development. 2.Home care Children are often deficient in spleen, and they do not know how to regulate their diet, so they are easily injured by breastfeeding. Children’s milk food is important in order, sometimes, there are sections. Improper parental feeding, or over-eating cold food hurts Yang, over-eating hot food hurts Yin, over-eating fatty, sweet and greasy food hurts the spleen, and so on, causing loss of appetite, see the meal is not fragrant. This requires us to cultivate healthy eating habits in children: (1) small babies should add complementary foods on time, and older children should eat meals on time without snacks. (2) Do not eat fruit, yogurt and drinks half an hour before meals. (3) do not watch TV during meals and do not drink water and drinks (4) do not criticize and blame the child at the table, because bad emotions will also reduce appetite. 3, home countermeasures (1) try to encourage children to eat on their own, which can increase appetite. (2) food as diverse as possible, so that the color and flavor to improve appetite. (3) Massage therapy can be carried out to improve the digestive function of the spleen and stomach. (4) Chinese herbal medicine, you can also take the right Chinese medicine treatment. Vomiting is also a common symptom in childhood, more common in infants and children and summer and autumn, can be accompanied by nausea, decreased appetite, sour breath, stomach distension, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms. There are many causes of vomiting in babies, the common causes are: (1) improper feeding or eating: such as feeding too much milk, swallowing a lot of air when eating milk. (2) abnormal digestive function: systemic infectious diseases, such as babies suffering from upper whistle infection, bronchitis, pneumonia and sepsis, etc. (3) Infectious diseases of the digestive tract: when suffering from gastritis, enteritis, dysentery, appendicitis and other diseases, local irritation can cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea and other symptoms. (4) Neurological diseases: encephalitis, meningitis, intracranial hemorrhage or tumor and craniocerebral trauma and other central nervous system diseases can also cause vomiting, characterized by the absence of nausea and ejection before vomiting, often accompanied by other symptoms of the nervous system, such as headache, depression, drowsiness, even convulsions, coma, etc. 1. Consequences The vomiting caused by overfeeding can be relieved by itself after reducing the amount of food eaten. If repeated, frequent vomiting or with diarrhea, fever will appear water, electrolyte, acid-base balance imbalance; if it is dysentery or poisoning, serious cases will cause toxic shock; if it is a neurological disease, it can cause seizures, coma, and even life-threatening. Therefore, the baby’s mental state and vomiting, dehydration should be closely observed in order to seek timely medical attention. 2, home care and treatment countermeasures (1) home care vomiting baby to lie on his side to prevent vomit accidentally inhaled trachea caused by aspiration pneumonia or suffocation, in addition, to reduce activity, quiet rest. Vomiting caused by improper feeding too much, to reduce the amount of food, vomiting lighter can eat easily digestible liquid food or semi-liquid food, a small number of times to give, vomiting heavy temporary fasting 4 to 6 hours, can be given a small number of times of light salt water or rice soup. If there is no obvious nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, you can give light food such as thin rice, dry rice, bread, buns, but should avoid dairy products, greasy diet for 2 to 3 days, forbid to eat cold, fried, spicy food, drinks, etc. (2) Home treatment After the baby eats water, drugs can be given orally: poor appetite, sour breath is indigestion, you can take Jian’er anti-food oral liquid, lactase tablets, lactobacillus tablets, etc. to help digestion. If the vomit is clear and cold without sour odor, accompanied by nasal congestion and runny nose, caused by external wind and cold, you can take Huoxiang Zhengqi liquid. In addition, regardless of the type of vomiting, can take vitamin B6 or domperidone tablets to stop vomiting and promote gastric power. 3, can also take some external massage therapy for breast food stagnation caused by parents with two thumbs from the epigastrium to the umbilicus to the two sides of 30 to 50 times, or clockwise abdominal massage for 1 minute, the end of the thumb to rub the foot three li, Nei Guan points for about 1 minute each also help food digestion. 4, food therapy recipe orange peel porridge: sun-dried orange peel 3 to 5g research, 50g of round-grained rice poured and washed. Pot on the fire, add an appropriate amount of water, put the orange peel powder, round-grained rice, porridge, boil with a high fire, change the fire to cook porridge, wait for the orange peel rotten, rice cooked, can be eaten. Drink once a day in the morning and once in the evening. Suitable for children with injury and vomiting caused by spleen and stomach gas stagnation. Third, abdominal pain The cause of abdominal pain in children is complex, can be caused by pneumonia, tuberculosis, rheumatic fever, malnutrition and other systemic diseases, but also by gastritis, enteritis, peptic ulcer, ascariasis, constipation, intestinal overlap, appendicitis, hernia and other diseases of the abdomen itself. In children, there is another common functional disease, intestinal spasm, which is caused by the unstable regulation of the phytoncotic function of children and the uncoordinated excitation and inhibition of the nerves in the intestinal wall. Under the action of certain factors (such as cold, cold drinking, anger, etc.), the smooth muscle of the intestinal tube will contract strongly and spasm and cause pain. Small infants may suffer from abdominal pain due to intestinal flatulence caused by over-eating milk, sugar or swallowing a large amount of gas in the abdomen. Home care and treatment countermeasures 1. Home care Pay attention to the baby’s abdomen to keep it warm, especially at night to avoid getting cold and aggravating abdominal pain. Overeating and unclean eating are important factors that trigger and aggravate abdominal pain, so parents should pay attention to the child’s diet and cleanliness. 2.Home treatment If the baby’s abdominal pain is diagnosed by the doctor as intestinal spasm, but the abdominal pain is light or only happens occasionally, it can be treated without medication first, and the abdominal pain will often be relieved naturally; for those children with paroxysmal abdominal pain, if the pain position is fixed, abdominal muscle tension, or abdominal cramps accompanied by abdominal distension, vomiting, or abdominal pain lasts 2 to 3 hours, and there is whole abdominal pressure pain, it may be a surgical emergency abdominal disease, and the child should be sent to the hospital immediately. hospital for consultation and treatment. Acute severe abdominal pain that the baby cannot tolerate and accompanied by other symptoms such as vomiting, blood in stool, pallor and change of consciousness may be acute abdominal disease such as intussusception, intestinal obstruction, intestinal perforation, allergic purpura, gastrointestinal torsion, pancreatitis, etc. The baby should be immediately fasted from food and water and quickly go to the hospital for treatment. If a baby hernia cannot be returned to the abdominal cavity and the swelling does not disappear and is accompanied by abdominal pain, crying, abdominal distention and vomiting, an incarcerated hernia must have occurred and must be sent to the hospital for treatment in time. If the abdominal pain is accompanied by vomiting and diarrhea, it may be gastroenteritis. If the diarrhea and vomiting are severe with symptoms of dehydration such as poor skin elasticity and weakness, the patient should be sent to the hospital immediately to avoid delaying the condition. Warm tips (1) Feed your baby regularly. （When breastfeeding, the mother should be in a standing or sitting position, not in a lying position, to avoid the baby inhaling a lot of air and causing intestinal spasms. (3) Each feeding should not last more than 20 minutes. After breastfeeding, the baby should be held upright, leaning on the mother’s shoulder and gently patted on the back so that the swallowed air can be expelled quickly. (4) Babies with abdominal pain should not take painkillers casually, as this will cover up the condition, interfere with the diagnosis and delay the time of treatment. (5) baby abdominal pain do not just do local hot compresses, if the child’s abdominal pain is organic lesions, at this time, if you press the children’s stomach, or may promote inflammation of the septic place broken perforation, the formation of diffuse peritonitis. Pressing the abdomen can stimulate the worm body and even cause biliary ascariasis; roundworms may also penetrate the delicate intestinal wall of young children, causing diffuse peritonitis; and blindly pressed, can also cause deepening of the set-in site, aggravating the condition. Fourth, diarrhea diarrhea refers to the increase in the number of stools and (or) thin feces, can be accompanied by vomiting, fever, abdominal pain, abdominal distension, mucus stool, blood stool and other symptoms. There are many causes of pediatric diarrhea, which can be summarized into two categories: infectious and non-infectious factors. Infectious diarrhea includes: infection with bacteria or viruses in the intestinal tract. Long-term use of broad-spectrum antibiotics can directly stimulate the intestinal tract and cause diarrhea, and can also cause diarrhea due to dysbiosis of the intestinal flora. Non-infectious factors: 1. Infants with immature digestive systems cannot tolerate large changes in the quality and quantity of the diet, and diarrhea can be caused by improper diet or feeding practices. For example, eating too much, not regularly, changing the composition of the food, adding too much sugar; adding supplementary food too early, so that the child can not easily digest; weaning the child in the hot days, suddenly changing the content of the diet, etc., can cause diarrhea. 2, climate changes can also cause diarrhea, such as cold can make the intestinal tract dysfunction; hot climate can make gastric acid and digestive enzymes secretion reduction and cause indigestion, the formation of diarrhea. If the diarrhea is serious or accompanied by severe vomiting, there will be water, electrolyte, acid-base balance imbalance, and in the case of dysentery, serious cases can cause toxic shock, so you should closely observe the baby’s mental state and diarrhea, dehydration, and seek medical attention in a timely manner. 1.Home care The baby with diarrhea should reduce the amount of food in moderation and forbid eating cold and greasy food. In case of loss of appetite or early fever, reduce the amount of milk and other foods for children and replace them with sugar saline to reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and avoid overfeeding or feeding foods containing more fat. Pay attention to the baby’s abdomen to keep warm, to avoid the abdomen from getting cold to speed up intestinal peristalsis leading to the aggravation of diarrhea. 2, home treatment Children with diarrhea can take oral intestinal mucosa protectors to help restore the normal ecological balance of the intestinal flora. Baby diarrhea such as watery stool or egg-flower soup-like stool, usually mostly viral infections, give your baby intestinal mucosal protector and microecological preparations, without antibiotics, Similac (montelukast) to adsorb pathogens and toxins, can also take microecological preparations such as Mamie’s, etc. At the same time, we should pay attention to the prevention and correction of dehydration, commonly used oral rehydration salts with water to feed; such as mucus, pus and blood stools are mostly bacterial infections, add cephalosporin class antibacterial drugs. 3, food therapy recipes (1) white lentil porridge: 100g of fresh white lentils or 50g of dried lentils, cooked with 100g of round-grained rice as porridge, served warm every morning and evening, suitable for spleen deficiency type wet diarrhea longer babies. (2) Apple puree: wash and slice apples, put them in a bowl with a lid, steam and mash them as puree, and feed them 2-3 times a day. (3) Lotus seeds porridge: grind 20g of dried lotus seeds into powder, add 200ml of rice broth and cook to about 100~150ml 3 times a day, 25~50ml each time. It is suitable for children within 1 year old with prolonged diarrhea. How to take care of the spleen and stomach 1, pay attention to the dietary regimen Parents should pay attention to the dietary regimen of children, infants and children for reasonable feeding and care. Advocate breastfeeding as a baby. In early childhood, the milk teeth gradually come out, but the chewing function is still poor, the spleen and stomach function is still weak, food should be fine, soft, rotten, broken. Food varieties should be diversified, meat and vegetables with the ancient saying “five grains for nourishment, five fruits for help, five animals for benefit, five dishes for the full, the smell combined and served to replenish the essence and benefit the qi.” Three meals a day, meals on time, relatively quantitative, for children’s plain diet and living, should follow the old adage “If you make a child safe, always suffer three points of hunger and cold”. Do not damage the spleen and stomach by over-starvation and over-filling. 2, the treatment of disease care of the spleen and stomach in the treatment of various diseases of children, emphasizing the need to take care of the spleen and stomach at all times, do not think that the child’s body is weak after the disease, the use of thick cream or blindly eat sea cucumber and bird’s nest or even winter worm and summer grass type of minerals. In the early stage of recovery, it is advisable to choose rice porridge, fruits and vegetables, which are light products to nourish.