How to care for children with indigestion and what foods can promote digestion

In many cases, we will let the baby's indigestion do no harm, but we don't know that baby indigestion can also cause fever. Chinese medicine believes that improper diet will lead to food accumulation, which will cause damage to the spleen and stomach function. For a long time, the internal heat cannot be eliminated in time, which will inevitably lead to external fever and fever. Generally speaking, due to the accumulation of food fever, it is mainly a low-grade fever state, but it is also accompanied by thick tongue coating, abdominal distension and abdominal pain, irritability, poor sleep and other manifestations.

Fever caused by food accumulation is more common in children, especially breastfeeding babies. This is because, on the one hand, the baby's diet cannot be controlled, and parents will let the child eat more if they are not careful; on the other hand, dairy products are not easy to digest, and the formation of lumps in the stomach is easy to cause fever. In addition, the child's digestive system itself is not sound, which makes it easier to cause food accumulation.

How to care for children with indigestion?

1. When feeding children, you must have a regular and regular amount. In this way, children can have good eating habits from an early age and better adapt to the internal organs. For some older children, they should eat by themselves.

2. Don't let them have a partial diet, increase nutrition comprehensively, and don't let them have the bad habit of eating mainly snacks. Don't let them drink strong tea, wine, coffee, etc., and don't eat anything too stimulating.

3. Protect your child's appetite, because it is best to eat when you have an appetite. To protect your child's appetite, don't make too much noise when eating, don't eat when watching TV, don't force your child to eat, and don't restrict your child strictly. Don't eat some sweets before eating, and your child's food must be delicious.

4. The child’s abdomen must be kept warm to avoid irritating the stomach and intestines and infecting the respiratory tract.

5. Pay close attention to your child’s digestive tract to ensure it is unobstructed and that he or she develops a good habit of regular bowel movements.

6. Pay attention to hygiene, wash your hands before eating, and eat clean and fresh food. Eat more easily digestible food, avoid fried food that is difficult to digest, and do not read while eating.

7. Eat less fried foods: Because this type of food is not easy to digest, it will increase the burden on the digestive tract. Eating too much will cause indigestion, but it will also increase blood lipids, which is not good for health.

8. Eat less pickled foods: These foods contain more salt and some carcinogens, so it is not advisable to eat too much.

9. Eat less raw, cold and irritating foods: Raw, cold and irritating foods are highly irritating to the gastrointestinal mucosa and can easily cause diarrhea or gastrointestinal inflammation.

10. Eat regularly: Studies have shown that eating regularly and in fixed amounts can form a conditioned reflex, which is beneficial to the secretion of digestive glands and more conducive to digestion.

11. Regular and quantitative: Eat an appropriate amount of food at each meal and eat three meals at regular times every day. At the prescribed time, whether you are hungry or not, you should take the initiative to eat to avoid being too hungry or too full.

12. Appropriate temperature: The temperature of food should be neither hot nor cold.

Foods to help babies digest food

1. Orange peel: The digestion-promoting effect of orange peel is mainly due to the volatile oil contained in it, which stimulates the digestive tract, increases gastric juice secretion, and promotes gastrointestinal motility.

How to make orange peel porridge: prepare appropriate amount of rice, white fungus, orange peel, orange pulp, wolfberry, and honey. Wash the rice, soak the white fungus, and cut into thin pieces. Take half an orange peel, remove the white part, soak it in clean water for a while, and cut into shredded pieces. After the rice is boiled, add the orange peel and white fungus, and simmer for 30-45 minutes. Finally, add the wolfberry, pulp, and honey.

2. Yogurt: In addition to all the nutrients in milk, the outstanding feature of yogurt is that it is rich in lactic acid, which can break down lactose into lactic acid and help babies promote digestion.

Strawberry honey yogurt: prepare 200g yogurt, 5 strawberries, and appropriate amount of honey. Wash the strawberries, cut them into small pieces, and mix them with yogurt. Finally, sprinkle honey on the strawberry yogurt.

3. Barley and barley malt: Barley and barley malt contain vitamins A, B, E, as well as amylase, maltose, glucose, invertase, allantoin, protease, fat and minerals, which can effectively treat indigestion symptoms.

Tangerine peel and barley drink: prepare 15g barley kernels, 30g tangerine peel, appropriate amount of oil and salt. In a clean casserole, add appropriate amount of water, add tangerine peel, and cook for 5 minutes. Add barley kernels, simmer for about 5 minutes on low heat, turn off the heat, cover and simmer for a while.

4. Tomatoes: Tomatoes are rich in organic acids such as malic acid, citric acid, and formic acid, which can protect vitamin C from damage during processing and cooking, and improve the utilization rate of vitamins. Tomatoes also contain a special ingredient that helps digestion and diuresis, and helps gastric juice digest fat. Tomatoes can also inhibit the growth of bacteria and fungi and treat angular cheilitis.

Reminder: Pay attention to preventing indigestion in children

1. Feeding quantitative feeding. Let children develop good eating habits from an early age so that their internal organs can adapt better. Older children should be encouraged to develop the habit of eating automatically.

2. Overcome partial food intake and pay attention to the comprehensiveness of nutrition. The combination of meat and vegetables should be appropriate, and overcome the bad habit of eating mainly snacks. Avoid strong irritating foods such as strong tea, coffee, wine and spices, peppers and mustard.

3. Pay attention to maintaining the child's appetite. Because eating is most beneficial only when you have an appetite. In order to maintain the child's good appetite, we must pay attention to the eating environment not being too noisy, not to mention eating while watching TV; be careful not to force eating or strictly restrict the child's diet; do not eat candy before meals; avoid the child eating too tired or nervous; the color, aroma and taste of the food should be attractive.

4. Pay attention to keeping your abdomen warm, avoid exposing your gastrointestinal tract to cold stimulation, and try to reduce respiratory tract infections.

5. Pay close attention to keeping the digestive tract unobstructed and develop the habit of regular bowel movements.

6. Pay attention to hygiene, cultivate the habit of washing hands before meals, pay attention to clean and fresh food. Eat more easily digestible food, avoid fried and other difficult to digest food, and eat while reading.