What are the methods to judge whether a baby has indigestion? What are the symptoms of indigestion in a baby?

A baby's poor appetite and indigestion will have a great impact on their physical development. Once indigestion occurs, the baby will find it difficult to be interested in any food. Over time, the child's growth and development will be affected. Therefore, timely detection and timely resolution of the baby's indigestion problem will help the child's physical development.

How to judge baby's indigestion, look at these and you will know

"Three Looks" to Catch Baby's Problems

1. Learn to read the tongue coating

The tongue coating can reflect the child's spleen and stomach function. If the child's tongue coating is thick and greasy, and the color is yellow-white, it means that the child may have indigestion problems. The longer the food is accumulated, the greasier the tongue coating, and severe babies may also have geographic tongue.

2. Look at the stool

Stool can intuitively and clearly judge the baby's recent digestion. Many people may feel disgusted, but for the sake of the child's health, they should also be patient. If a child has indigestion, the following symptoms will appear: stool with milk curds, foam, dry and hard nodules, and watery stool.

3. Look at the bridge of the nose

Observe the bridge of the child's nose, which is what we call the root of the nose. Generally speaking, if the baby has indigestion, the bridge of the nose will turn green. Obviously, there may be a green pulse explosion. Chinese medicine believes that this is a manifestation of spleen deficiency, which is actually indigestion.

"Three Smells" to Identify Health

1. Smell the baby's mouth to see if there is any peculiar smell. Babies with indigestion will burp, and the expelled gas will have a distinct sour smell.

2. Ask your baby if his stool has a strange smell. If your baby's stool is different from usual stool and has a distinct smell, it may be indigestion.

3. In general, babies don't fart too often. If they have indigestion, they will fart more often, and the smell of their farts will be more unpleasant than normal farts.

Touch it

Touch: Touch your baby's belly: Warm your hands first (avoid cold hands and let the child catch a cold), then gently touch your baby's abdomen to see if there is any bloating or lumps.

Second touch: Touch the palms and soles of the baby to see if they have a fever. Chinese pediatrics believes that baby's food accumulation is mostly caused by internal heat, so the palms and soles will have a fever.

Think about it

Carefully review the child's diet in the past week or three days to see if there are some foods that he doesn't like to eat vegetables, only likes to eat meat, or if the baby doesn't drink water for a long time. These factors can cause indigestion in the baby. If the problems are improved one by one, the problem will be solved.

The above is summarized based on the experience of mothers taking care of babies. I hope it can bring some help to some novice parents.