Every summer, many parents ask doctors: children often fever, crying, sweating, reluctant to eat, what is going on? Song Guihua, chief physician of the Department of Pediatrics at the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that children have poor thermoregulatory centers and poor spleen and stomach functions, and when the heat continues, if parents do not pay attention to giving children reasonable summer heat, heat accumulates in the body and does not go away, it is easy to get sick. Expert advice–
Song Guihua, Department of Pediatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
A few days ago, Yao Yao’s asthma, which had been under control for 3 years, suddenly flared up. “It’s my fault, because the weather was hot, so I ordered some ice cream for the whole family to relieve the heat. I didn’t expect that the child would eat three of them in one sitting and then start to have chest congestion and wheezing.” Yoyo’s mother said that over the years, she has helped her child inhale hormone therapy in strict accordance with medical advice, and the child has not had an asthma attack for three years.
Song Guihua said that in the summer, many parents will wholesale a lot of cold drinks and sorbets into the refrigerator to cool their children down. The child is originally weak in the spleen and stomach, especially in the summer heat, sweating, loss of appetite, it is more likely to have reduced digestive function and other problems. Although drinking cold drinks and eating ice-cream can help them distribute body heat to a certain extent, but children are often a meal on the mouth, excessive food cold will stimulate the gastric mucosa, so that the weak spleen and stomach add to the problem.
Air conditioning cooling is also one of the ways parents can give their children to clear the heat. “Before the age of half a small baby, the use of air conditioning cooling can not be too low, more than 28 ℃ is appropriate, and can not let him face the air conditioning vents; older children also can not stay in the air-conditioned room for a long time.” Song Guihua explained that a long time to stay in the air-conditioned room, the surface cooled, but drink water, sweat less, resulting in the body heat is difficult to dissipate, and over time, the child will also be physically weak spleen and stomach poor.
Despite the heat, it is still important to let children take advantage of the sunlight is not strong (before 10 a.m., after 16 p.m.), more to go outside to run, turn around, so that children properly sweat and drink more water.
”Patients with asthma are overly greedy for cold, and cold stimulation of the respiratory mucosa is likely to induce and aggravate the condition.”
Green bean water, chrysanthemum tea, lily porridge more soup soup to clear the summer heat and strengthen the spleen
How should parents give their children to clear the summer heat and eliminate heat? Song Guihua suggests.
One, a light diet, easy to digest. Eat less greasy, spicy, stimulating food.
Second, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits. Cucumber, bitter melon, winter melon, etc. can clear the summer heat. But children with weak spleen and stomach (manifested as yellow face, dry or thin stools, easy to sweat) eat too much watermelon is easy to belly distension, but also hurt the spleen and stomach, it is recommended to eat 1 to 2 pieces of watermelon a day is enough. In addition, these children can not eat chilled watermelon.
Third, drink more soup and water. Green bean water, chrysanthemum tea, lotus seed lily porridge, yam porridge, etc., not only can clear the heat and dispel the summer heat, but also can strengthen the spleen and stomach.
Four, diligent bathing, more warm water bath, to relieve the summer heat is very good. However, remember not to use cool water to wipe your child’s body.
Fifth, when the day is hot, do not dress your baby too much or cover too thick. Otherwise, it will also affect their body heat dissipation.
Summer heat and dampness type of cold can be used Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Shui
”The heat is unbearable, but also often brings on fire, colds and other problems, for these children, diet regimen is more important.” Song Guihua said.
For children with “fire”, it is important to distinguish between real fire and false fire. The actual fire, skin red spots (rash), mouth and tongue sores, dry stools, available Wang’s Bao Chi Wan and other drugs to clear the heat and relieve the summer heat; deficiency fire, that is, sweating, loss of appetite, diarrhea and other children with a weak spleen and stomach, can be given to them to cook lotus seed soup, yam porridge, etc..
The child’s body heat accumulation, and then blowing cold air conditioning, it is easy to catch a cold, and most of them are summer damp type cold, the affected children will appear dizziness, nausea, do not want to eat, low fever, diarrhea and other symptoms. At this time, parents can let him eat some patchouli water or capsules.
Although there are air conditioners and fans in every home nowadays, children have little chance of getting heatstroke, but when you go on a trip, you should prepare some medicine for your child to prevent heatstroke because of the long time high temperature and sweating. Commonly used anti-coldness medications include anthrax, Ren Dan, Huo Xiang Zheng Qi water or capsules, ten drops of water and so on. It is necessary to pay attention to the use of children: when sweating a lot, it is not advisable to wipe the wind oil essence, because the mint and other ingredients contained in it will be absorbed through the sweat glands, easy to cause allergies; ten drops of water is mainly for the treatment of heatstroke, the effect of heatstroke prevention in general.