Can indigestion in children cause diarrhea? How does traditional Chinese medicine improve indigestion?

Nowadays, some babies usually suffer from indigestion due to their weak bodies, poor body resistance, and some abnormal living habits. Therefore, parents should usually use certain traditional Chinese medicine treatments to reduce and prevent indigestion in children. So, how to treat indigestion in children through traditional Chinese medicine?

Indigestion in infants can cause harm

Diarrhea: Since the intestinal balance is disrupted, diarrhea is actually a protective system that excretes toxins from the body. Taking antidiarrheal drugs too early is often not advisable and can cause obstruction.

Constipation: Eating too much food, spicy, fried, raw and cold food... these foods piled together can cause constipation in children. Constipation in children can cause toxins to accumulate and endanger children's health.

Abdominal pain: Excessive accumulation in the stomach and abnormal intestinal motility directly lead to vomiting and abdominal pain in children. In severe cases, medication at home generally cannot relieve the pain, but it is also necessary to go to the hospital for examination, which is also a more serious consequence.

TCM treatment of indigestion in children

Abdominal massage

Abdominal rubbing is also a good method. If the child is constipated and dry, gently place the abdomen of the palm or the abdomen of four fingers close to the abdomen, with the umbilical cord as the center, and make circular movements along the direction of the large intestine to relieve diarrhea, 100~200 times each time. It has the function of strengthening the spleen and stomach, digesting food and relieving constipation. If the child has diarrhea, the method is the same, but rub counterclockwise.

Fruit Tea Yam

Diet therapy can be used to supplement the child's body. If the child is anorexic, you might as well make a kind of fruit tea yam.

The raw materials are 250g yam, 50g raw hawthorn or 50g fruit tea sauce. The method is to peel the yam, remove the beard, wash it, cut it into oblique pieces, put it in a plate according to the height, and steam it in a pot; boil the raw hawthorn into hawthorn sauce, remove the residue and keep the juice, or pour the fruit tea sauce directly on the steamed yam for consumption.

Diet therapy

Hawthorn Chicken's Gizzard

Chicken gizzard 3g, hawthorn, malt, Shenqu, licorice 3g. Decoction, 3g each time, 3 times a day. Mainly used to treat indigestion in children.

Atractylodes macrocephala, charred hawthorn

60g of Atractylodes macrocephala, 30g of chicken gizzard lining, 30g of charred hawthorn. 1.5g, 3 times a day, with boiled water. Indications: Indigestion in children.

How to prevent indigestion in children

Babies should be breastfed as much as possible, and do not let them wean in summer. Feed regularly, do not feed too much at one time, and let the child drink some boiled water after two feedings. If the milk is not enough, you can feed some easily digestible food, such as rice soup, noodle soup, and egg cake.

After weaning, children should be carefully maintained in food hygiene, and should not be allowed to eat leftovers, leftovers, or unclean food. Cover the child's stomach on summer nights to prevent colds. Once a child has symptoms of indigestion, first prepare the diet, limit the amount of food, and drink plenty of boiled water. If the condition is serious, consult a doctor as soon as possible.