Every mother is always concerned about whether her child is fed and clothed, and if her child has a fever, it will soon be noticed by an attentive mother, but many mothers do not pay attention to the changes in their child’s little tongue. Only when the child is not eating well or complains of tongue pain, the mother will ask him to open his mouth to see if his throat is red, but she will not pay attention to any changes in the child’s little tongue. Even if she finds a thick layer of something on her child’s tongue, she doesn’t know what is going on, what is causing it, and how to prevent and deal with the situation. In fact, there is a lot to learn about your child’s little tongue, and your mother can see some diseases through your child’s little tongue. What should a normal child’s tongue look like? A normal healthy child’s tongue should be medium in size, soft, light red and moist, stretching and moving freely, speaking clearly, and with a thin moss on the tongue surface that is moderately dry and moist, with no smell in the mouth. Once the child is ill, the tongue and tongue coating will change accordingly. In fact, the little tongue is like a “barometer” reflecting the health of the child, especially the gastrointestinal digestive function of the child is expressed in the little tongue. If a mother is aware of the changes in the little tongue, she can detect abnormalities in her child early and prevent them before they happen. This will enable your child to grow up healthier with less illness. When a child has a fever, the first thing that happens is that the tongue is shortened, the tongue is red and often sticks out of the mouth, and the tongue is less mossy, or there is tongue moss but it is less mossy and dry. If the fever is high and the tongue is reddish, it means that the child’s heat is heavy and injures the fluid, so the child will often ask for water. If it is accompanied by dry stools, there is often a foul odor in the mouth. This often happens in the early stages of some upper respiratory infections or infectious diseases, and mothers should pay attention to it. In children with severe fever, you can also see thick red mangoes on the tongue as if they were prunes in the market, and this kind of prune tongue is mostly seen in children with scarlet fever or Kawasaki disease. The child should be treated promptly for the primary disease causing the fever, and physical cooling or oral antipyretic drugs should be administered promptly. 2. Take care to give your child plenty of plain water and eat less oily food and sweeter fruits. 3, you can buy fresh rutabaga or dried rutabaga decoction for children to take. Some children are usually very good eaters and will eat a lot of their favorite foods when they see them. Mom and dad or grandparents see children eat a lot, not only do not discourage, but also very happy, and constantly encourage children to eat more. In this way, the child will eat too much, too full, digestive function disorders. Often, the next day, the child may not like to eat, and some children appear bloated, pain, and in serious cases, vomiting, vomit for the previous day to eat and not yet digested food, smell sour. Smaller children will be due to diarrhea caused by food accumulation, at this time, observe the child’s tongue, you can see a thick layer of yellow-white dirt on the tongue, tongue moss sticky thick, not easy to scrape away, while the mouth will have a sour and smelly smell of filth. This situation is mostly caused by the usual over-eating, or eating greasy food, the spleen and stomach digestive function is poor and caused. Treatment countermeasures: 1, when the child appears this tongue, the diet should be lighter. For children with a particularly good appetite, you should promptly remind each meal in moderation, so that the gastrointestinal tract can get sufficient rest. 2, if the child once the milk food stagnation, can be used as appropriate, “Baohe pill”, “stomach stomach and eliminate food tablets” or “Wang’s Bao Chi Wan” and other Chinese medicine, to eliminate food and guide stagnation, to ensure the smooth passage of stool. 3, you can use chicken neijin 15 grams, poria 10 grams, hawthorn 30 grams of decoction to take a daily dose. 4. If the child’s stool is dry and bloating is obvious, you can take a decoction of 15 grams of fried Echinacea and 15 grams of raw Astragalus with water, which can also play the role of eliminating food and inducing stagnation. Third, when the child’s tongue is like a map map tongue refers to the tongue body pale white, tongue moss has one or more peeling, peeling the side of the high protrusion like a box, shaped like a map, every time when eating hot porridge will have discomfort or slight pain. Map tongue is usually seen in digestive disorders, or children who have been ill for a long time, so that the internal qi and yin are injured. Children with map tongue, often prone to picky eating, partiality, love of cold drinks, sleep instability, kicking the blanket, flip sleep, smaller children are prone to crying, hot flashes and sweating, shriveled and lusterless, weak and thin, afraid of cold, feverish palms, etc.. Treatment countermeasures: 1, eat more fresh fruit and fresh and dark green or red vegetables, and pay attention to avoid frying, smoking, greasy and spicy food. 2, can be appropriate amount of longan meat, yam, white lentils, large red dates, with barley, millet with porridge for children to eat, if with animal liver together, the effect will be better. If the child’s face is white, irritable, sweaty, dry stool, mostly qi and yin, available lily, lotus seed, wolfberry, raw astragalus appropriate amount of soup to drink, will make the map tongue improved. Fourth, when the child’s tongue is smooth without moss Some children with frequent fever, recurrent colds, poor appetite or chronic diarrhea will have a reddish tongue like fresh meat, all the tongue moss falls off, the tongue is smooth like a mirror, medically called mirror red tongue. Children with mirror tongue often also have symptoms such as loss of appetite, dry mouth and drinking or abdominal distension like a drum. For the mirror red tongue of the child should not be considered weak, and give a big tonic or eat more fatty and oily food. Should eat more soy milk or fresh and easy to digest vegetables, such as mushrooms, cucumbers, tomatoes, white radish, etc.. 2. Watermelon, apple, pear, water chestnut juice can be squeezed for drinking, or morning and evening with yam, lotus seeds, lily porridge for children to eat, will also receive very good results. Special tips: 1, the newborn baby’s tongue red, no moss and creamy white moss of breast babies is a normal phenomenon, the mother should not be too nervous. 2, some children eat certain drugs or food, often will also make the tongue discoloration, such as eating red candy tongue can be red, eat plums, olives tongue will become black, drink orange water, eat egg yolk tongue will become yellow thick, these are not disease moss. Generally speaking, the color of dyed moss is brighter and lighter, while the disease moss does not easily recede, you can use this to distinguish, do not mistake the normal tongue moss for the disease moss and false alarm. 3, infants and young children are very weak, the discovery of abnormalities to go to the hospital in a timely manner, for older children, identify the changes in their tongue quality can be used as a reference for the child’s health, but absolutely not according to the situation completely on their own, if necessary, must go to the hospital for treatment.