Causes and treatment of excessive tongue coating in children

  A, Western medicine generally do not pay much attention to the tongue is not treated, but to exclude thrush, if it is thrush, visible tongue covered with white flakes, its shape like a goose mouth or snow flakes, or like a milk block and not easy to wipe away, that is, suffering from thrush disease.  Treatment methods are many: 1, bubble two times the green tea water (Tieguanyin can also be) with index finger wrapped sterilized gauze dip tea water, wash again in the baby’s mouth, must be light, three or five days to start off, reduce some on the morning and evening rub, or every morning insist on using warm boiled water to rub once the baby’s mouth.  2, you can use disinfectant cotton dipped in 2% baking soda water scrubbing mouth, scrubbing when the action should be light, and then 1% gentian violet coated in the affected area, 1 – 2 times a day. You can also take a grain of mycobacterium powder, add 5 ml of glycerin and mix well, apply it on the affected area. Usually the disease disappears after a few days of medication, but thrush is particularly prone to recurrence, so parents should continue to use the medication for a few days after the disease disappears to consolidate the effect, avoid recurrence and try to cure it at once. Note that the medicine should be given to the child some time after the child has eaten, so as not to cause the child to vomit.  3, do not use antibiotics indiscriminately. The reason is that when you use broad-spectrum antibiotics for your child, the antibiotics may kill the bacteria that inhibit Candida albicans, which leads to the proliferation of Candida albicans and causes thrush, which is medically known as a dysbiosis. When treating thrush in children, antibiotics should be discontinued.  Second, the following is the answer of Chinese medicine 1, light white tongue, thin white tongue coating: mostly cold evidence, seen in the early stage of the cold; 2, white greasy tongue coating, or white thick greasy, mostly cold damp; 3, slightly yellow tongue coating, or yellow greasy, for the spleen and stomach damp heat or intestinal stagnation, seen in infection, fever or digestive disorders, often accompanied by dry mouth and tongue, irritability, dry stool and other symptoms; 4, thin little tongue coating or smooth without moss, or tongue partially peeled. Mostly due to gastrointestinal damp heat or Yin deficiency and fire.