What to do if your child has a fever and accumulation of food

Stagnant food is a condition in traditional Chinese medicine, mainly referring to the gastrointestinal disorders formed when children eat too much milk and damage the spleen and stomach, causing milk food to stagnate in the middle jiao. It occurs mostly in infants and young children, mainly manifesting as abdominal fullness, dry or sour stools, and accompanied by obvious fever symptoms, with body temperature generally maintained at about 38℃. Diet must be small and frequent, do not eat meat and fish and shrimp and other foods, light diet, eat more vegetables and fruits, and with the elimination of food drugs, such as four mill soup or Wang’s Bao Chi Wan. Pediatric tui na is also a way to relieve gastrointestinal discomfort without side effects and can relieve the child’s abdominal distension and fever caused by food accumulation. Regardless of the cause of the fever, when the body temperature exceeds 38.5℃, the baby’s mental state is also in need of timely administration of ibuprofen and acetaminophen to reduce fever. “The reason for this is that parents overfeed their children, who do not have a strong sense of self satiety, so the food is good or in the process of playing constantly feed, it is easy to accumulate food, must develop good feeding habits to prevent accumulation of food.