How to treat and prevent indigestion in children?

Children's indigestion is a headache for parents. This time, some parents will ask, is there a better way to treat children's food accumulation problem? It is best to follow Xiaobian to see how Chinese medicine treats food accumulation.

Chinese medicine for treating indigestion in children

massage

Because food accumulation is the basis of colds, children who often have food accumulation can use the push spleen earth point and rub the Banmen point to adjust. The spleen earth point is located on the radial side of the thumb. Use the flat push method to push along the radial edge of the thumb to the base of the palm. 100~200 can strengthen the spleen and aid digestion.

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.

How to prevent 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 children being too tired or nervous when eating; the color, aroma and taste of 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.

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