In layman’s terms, food accumulation is when a child consumes too much of a particular food that exceeds the digestive capacity of the spleen and stomach, resulting in dysfunction of the spleen and stomach. If the food is not digested and absorbed in a timely manner, it will build up and create heat and fire. If a child eats too much or is too highly nutritious, it exceeds the maximum limit of the spleen and stomach’s digestive and absorption functions. This is when a lot of food cannot be digested and absorbed in a timely manner. In this way, it will damage the function of the spleen and stomach, making the digestion and absorption function even worse, thus forming accumulation of food. This is followed by heat and fire, which can manifest as thick tongue coating, bad breath, red lips, yellow urine, dry stools, and irritability in children who are usually well behaved. If a child’s food accumulates and hurts the spleen and stomach, in addition to anorexia, vomiting, constipation, diarrhea and other digestive system diseases, once cooled, it will form internal heat and external cold, which is called “lantern fire” in Chinese medicine, resulting in fever, cough, bronchitis and even pneumonia and other respiratory system diseases. Many parents do not understand how fever, cough, bronchitis, pneumonia and other diseases can be related to the digestive function of children’s food accumulation. This can be explained from Chinese medicine. The accumulation of food causes fever called “heat accumulation”, where the food eaten is stagnant in the middle jiao, and the stagnation will turn into heat over time, and heat will steam inside, and the child’s body temperature will rise. The ancient book “Spleen and Stomach” states that “the spleen is deficient and the lungs are the most affected”. Chinese medicine believes that there is a connection between all five organs. Food accumulation can lead to dysfunction of the spleen and stomach, which in turn affects the lungs, with the spleen being the source of phlegm and the lungs being the reservoir of phlegm. If food accumulation is prolonged, the spleen and stomach become weak and the transportation and transformation become dysfunctional, phlegm will easily be produced and stored in the lungs, resulting in a cough. When phlegm is stored in the lungs, it causes coughing. In layman’s terms, this means that phlegm is blocked in the lungs, which, together with the relatively low immunity of children, can lead to bacterial infections and bronchitis or pneumonia. Once the child is sick, the infusion, an infusion of immune function, immune function decline, coupled with untimely conditioning will soon be sick again, and then sick again infusion, the child’s body is getting worse and worse, repeated infusions of vicious cycle, the formation of recurrent respiratory tract infections. This is referred to as a child with recurrent infections. These children are very common in outpatient clinics. So it is said that accumulation of food is the first “dominoes” of pediatric illness, that will bring many children many parents are not expecting problems. For example, it can lead to constipation, cough, fever, pharyngitis, and even pneumonia. The most common way to determine if a baby has food accumulation is to look at the baby’s tongue. Babies with food accumulation generally have a thicker tongue in the middle, or all of it, or a coin-like thick circle in the middle of the tongue. If a child has the following symptoms, it also means that the child has accumulated food; constantly tossing and turning while sleeping, sometimes grinding teeth; bloated stomach, stomach pain; significantly smaller appetite, loss of appetite; getting up in the morning with bad breath, thick and white tongue, green on both sides of the nose; sleeping at night with burning palms, feet, abdomen, etc., or a child under 3 years old with thickened forefinger veins. Based on the principle of early detection and early treatment, babies will suffer a lot less. The baby will be less sick and the mother will worry less. Babies are too young to try food therapy at the beginning of accumulation of food. In serious cases, you must seek medical attention as soon as possible to get the appropriate treatment. Baby food therapy methods: 1, hawthorn apple water Function: to clear the lungs, eliminate food. Especially against the accumulation of food caused by eating too much meat. Method: Scrub the apples with salt, cut into shreds with skin, then add dried hawthorn or washed fresh hawthorn, cook for 15 minutes on high heat. The sweet and sour soup is generally preferred by children. In addition to drinking soup, the fruit inside can also be eaten. 2, yam and rice porridge Function: To regulate the spleen and stomach, nourishing Yin and nourishing liquid. Suitable for children’s accumulation of food does not subside, eating is not good, weight loss, yellow muscle thin. Directions: Take 100 grams of dried yam slices, 100 grams of rice or small yellow rice (corn), and the right amount of sugar. Wash the rice, crushed with yam slices, into the pot, add the right amount of water, boil into porridge. 3, white radish porridge Function: smooth gas, stomach, indigestion in children have certain curative effect. Method: 1 white radish, 50 grams of rice, sugar in the right amount. Wash the rice well. Wash and slice the white radish, add water and boil for 30 minutes, then add the rice and cook until the soup is thickened and add the right amount of sugar. Reminder: Prevention is better than cure for food accumulation. Most children like cold drinks, cold and hard food is the most harmful to the child’s spleen, it will cause the spleen and stomach cold, spleen and stomach, loss of appetite, indigestion, over time, the day see thinning, can cause developmental delays. So try not to let your child eat cold drinks and chilled fruit. “If you want your child to be safe, three points of hunger and cold”, choose light vegetables, easily digestible rice porridge, noodle soup, noodles, etc., not fried, puffed food, meat and vegetables with a reasonable mix, so as not to increase the burden on the stomach and intestines. In addition, let the child drink more water, to ensure sufficient sleep, are a good way to prevent the accumulation of food. In order to prevent the baby from accumulation of food, some parents will often let the baby eat elimination tablets, think that as long as the meal eat some elimination tablets will not cause accumulation of food, and the baby will eat like candy beans, one after another; some parents will often give the baby to eat Wang’s Bao Chi Pills, feel that this is a proprietary Chinese medicine, eat more does not matter, in fact, these methods are not commonly used. Although the elimination medicine can promote the baby’s digestion to a certain extent, but if parents often repeatedly give the baby Wang’s Bao Chi Pills, stomach and elimination tablets and other elimination medicine, may affect the child’s own digestive function, not to mention that some elimination medicine contains laxative drugs (such as Wang’s Bao Chi Pills contains rhubarb, croton cream), commonly used will hurt the spleen and stomach, or even cause liver and kidney damage. Pediatric massage method in the prevention and treatment of pediatric food stagnation has the effect of eliminating food stagnation, regulating the stagnation of the intestines and stomach, helping to eliminate evil and improve the immune function of children. The abdominal kneading method: parents can use the palm of the hand in the baby’s entire abdomen clockwise mo 3-5 minutes. After rubbing the abdomen, find one-half of the line between the mid-thoracic junction and the navel, which is the central point. Use the middle ring finger to press the point for 2 minutes.