1, tongue less tongue red normal healthy baby’s tongue should be moderate in size, soft tongue, light red moist, stretching activities freely, speak clearly, and the tongue has a dry wet moderate light thin moss, no smell in the mouth. Once the baby is sick, the tongue texture and tongue coating will change accordingly. If the baby has a cold and fever, the first manifestation is a reddish tongue and a slightly thick yellowish white tongue coating. If the body temperature is high, the tongue is reddish and the tongue coating is dry, it means that the baby’s heat is heavy and consumes fluid. Fever is often accompanied by dry stools, and the baby’s mouth often has a heavy odor. This situation usually indicates that the baby has a heavy internal heat and the mother should pay attention to it. In babies with severe fever, you can sometimes see thick red mangoes on the tongue. The response: physical cooling more boiled water At this time, if you find that your baby has a fever, you should promptly carry out physical cooling. If the temperature is too high or the fever does not go down, you should seek medical attention. In addition, you should also pay attention to give your baby more boiled water and eat less or no greasy food. At this time, you can buy fresh rutabaga or dried rutabaga, chrysanthemum, honeysuckle decoction for baby to drink. 2, yellow and white tongue moss sticky thick If the baby’s little tongue, you can see a thick layer of yellow and white dirt, tongue moss sticky thick, not easy to scrape away, while the mouth will have a sour and smelly smell of filth, this situation is likely due to the usual over-eating, or eating too much fatty food, the spleen and stomach digestive function is poor and caused, the people call it “accumulation of food “. Countermeasures: Eat a light diet, healthy stomach and eliminate food The baby appears as above, is likely to eat too much, too full, digestive function disorders. At this time, pay attention to when the baby appears this tongue, the diet should be relatively light. Once the baby has accumulated food, you can take some anti-eating drugs or hawthorn and other foods according to the specific situation, you can also use chicken naijin and hawthorn decoction to take a daily dose. If the baby’s stool is dry and bloating is obvious, you can take a decoction of lycopodium, cassia seeds and guavas with water, which can also play a role in eliminating food and guiding stagnation. 3, the tongue body pale white map tongue Sometimes, mothers look at the baby’s little tongue, will find the baby’s little tongue like a map: tongue body pale white, tongue moss has one or more exfoliation, exfoliation of the side of high protrusion like a box, shaped like a map. The baby may even have discomfort or slight pain in the tongue when eating hot things. The baby’s map tongue is mostly due to digestive disorders, or the baby has been sick for a long time, so that the body’s qi and yin are injured. Babies with map tongue are often prone to picky eating, partial eating, cold drinks, unstable sleep, kicking the blanket, turning over to sleep, smaller babies are prone to crying, hot flashes and sweating, yellow and lusterless, weak and thin, afraid of cold, hot palms and so on. At this time the baby should eat more fresh fruit and green or red vegetables, while paying attention to avoid frying, smoking, greasy and spicy food. The right amount of yam, white lentils, red dates, and barley, millet with porridge to baby, if with animal liver to eat together, the effect will be better. If the baby pale, tired, dry mouth and tongue, dry stool, mostly for the qi and yin, available lily, lotus seeds, wolfberry, raw astragalus appropriate amount of soup to drink, will make the map tongue to improve. 4, smooth tongue mirror red tongue Some often fever, recurrent colds, poor appetite or chronic diarrhea baby, will appear tongue vivid red like fresh meat, tongue moss all off, tongue smooth as a mirror, medically called mirror red tongue. The appearance of mirror tongue babies, often accompanied by loss of appetite, dry mouth and drink or abdominal distension such as drum symptoms. Countermeasures: drink more soy milk and eat more vegetables For the mirror red tongue of the baby should not be considered weak, give a lot of tonic or give fatty and oily food. This is mostly due to the spleen and stomach Yin deficiency, should eat more soy milk or fresh and easy to digest vegetables, such as cucumber, tomatoes, white radish, etc. You can also squeeze watermelon, apple, pear, water chestnut juice to drink, or morning and evening with yam, lotus seeds, lily porridge to baby to eat.