In normal people, there is a thin white and moist layer of moss on the back of the tongue, called tongue moss. It is mainly composed of shed keratinized epithelium, saliva, bacteria, food debris and exuded white blood cells. Abnormalities in the color, shape and texture of the tongue indicate various degrees of disease in the body. In young children, a lack of tongue coating, no tongue coating, and a reddish tongue texture are often signs of poor resistance and weakness. Sometimes, when mothers look at their baby’s tongue, they will find that the baby’s tongue looks like a map: the tongue is pale white, the tongue is flaking in one or more places, and the flaking side is high and protruding like a box, shaped like a map. The baby may even experience discomfort or slight pain in the tongue when eating hot food. The unexplained loss of tongue coating and the uneven color of the tongue surface is known as “map tongue” in medical science. Allergic people are most likely to have this condition, especially in the spring and autumn. The appearance of the “map tongue” indicates that your resistance is declining. Babies with map tongue are mostly due to digestive disorders, or babies who have been sick for a long time, so that the body’s qi and yin are injured. Most babies with map tongue are weak, malnourished, poor appetite, poor digestion, thin stools or low resistance, so they are prone to picky eating, paranoid eating, unstable sleep, kicking the blanket, turning over to sleep and other phenomena. In addition, they are also prone to diseases such as colds, bronchitis and diarrhea. Suggestions: At this time, babies should eat more fresh fruits and green or red vegetables, and pay attention to avoid fried, smoked, greasy and spicy food. You can use the right amount of yam, white lentils, large red dates, and barley, millet with porridge for baby, if with animal liver together, the effect will be better. If the baby is pale, tired, dry mouth and tongue, dry stool, mostly qi and yin, can be used lily, lotus seeds, wolfberry, raw astragalus appropriate amount of soup to drink, will make the map tongue improved. In addition, it is also important to stay away from pollen, seafood, small insects and other allergens during this period. Smooth tongue “mirror red tongue” Some babies with frequent fevers, recurrent colds, poor appetite or chronic diarrhea will have a reddish tongue like fresh meat, with all the tongue coating falling off and a smooth tongue like a mirror, medically known as mirror red tongue. Babies with mirror tongue are often accompanied by loss of appetite, dry mouth and drinking or abdominal distension like a drum. Reminder: For the mirror red tongue of the baby should not think it is weak, so give a lot of tonic or give fatty and oily food. This is mostly due to spleen and stomach Yin deficiency, should eat more soy milk or fresh easy-to-digest vegetables, such as cucumber, tomatoes, white radish, etc. You can also squeeze watermelon, apple, pear, water chestnut juice for drinking, or use yam, lotus seeds, lily of the valley to cook porridge for baby in the morning and evening. In addition, parents are advised to take their children to outdoor activities more often and pay attention to scientific and reasonable feeding to improve the nutritional status in order to strengthen the resistance. If there is originally moss on the tongue, but if it is partially or completely gone, it is called peeling moss in medical science, and according to traditional medicine, it belongs to Yin deficiency. This is mainly caused by atrophy of the papillae on the tongue mucosa. If all the moss falls off, it indicates that the stomach yin is depleted and the stomach qi is greatly injured. If the tongue moss is not completely peeled off and the peeled area is smooth without moss, it indicates that the stomach’s qi and yin are both injured. If the tongue moss is not smooth at the flaking area and there are newborn-like particles, it indicates that the baby’s blood qi is not continuous. If most of the tongue moss peels off, leaving only a small patch, it is evidence of gas and yin deficiency of the stomach. In addition, if the tongue moss goes from present to absent, it is a deficiency of gas and yin of the stomach and the positive energy is gradually declining; if the tongue moss goes from absent and gradually becomes thin and white, it indicates an improvement. A healthy tongue should be pink or light red, long and oval in shape, moderately fat and thin, thin and white, glossy and lubricated, and free to stretch, whether straight or bent, it should be soft and strong. However, parents should also be reminded that the newborn’s red tongue without moss is a normal phenomenon, and parents should not check their baby’s health by matching this special condition with the tongue standard, thinking it is due to disease. The color, shape and thickness of the tongue is a mirror of the baby’s health, so parents should also learn to observe the changes in the baby’s tongue. If your baby’s tongue is lacking, it is a hint that you should pay attention to improving your baby’s resistance.