Why do some children have heavy dampness and poor appetite, and always eat a little and say that they are full and can't eat?Why are there also children who are also damp, but have a very good appetite, eat a lot of food, and are easily hungry?Today, Dr. Jin will talk to you about the impact of moisture on children's appetite.
Generally speaking, dampness is a kind of "evil", and it can easily invade the child's body, especially the spleen and stomach. The spleen and stomach are important organs for digestion and absorption in the human body.
Heavy dampness can easily hurt the spleen, and dampness will hurt the stomach when it enters the stomach. After the dampness evil invades the spleen and stomach, it will cause the spleen and stomach qi to be abnormal, and slowly the stomach will no longer digest food, and the spleen will no longer deliver nutrients, which will lead to the child's indigestion, poor appetite, bloating, abdominal pain, and other symptoms.
Children with heavy dampness will slowly have problems with the spleen and stomach, and the food will not be digested, and the body will automatically send out adjustment signals, and the child will not feel hungry very much, and he will feel full when he eats very little when he is hungry, and he will often have abdominal distension and abdominal pain, and his appetite will naturally decrease.
Moreover, the tongue coating of the damp child is white and sticky, and the thick tongue coating covers the taste buds, and the taste of the delicious meal in the mouth is greatly reduced, and the child naturally has no appetite.
So why do some children also have a very good appetite when they are also damp?Isn't a good appetite a good spleen and stomach?In this case, it does not affect the child's eating, so does it not require intervention?I believe that these are also the inner questions of many parents and friends, and I will answer them for you one by one.
Children with dampness and good appetite are not just damp, in addition to dampness, there will also be internal heat in the child's body, internal heat likes dampness, the two are entangled together to form damp heat, children with damp and hot spleen and stomach generally have a yellow tongue coating, but the tongue is very red.
And children with dampness and heat in the spleen and stomach will have a strong function of rotting water grains, so they will eliminate grain and hunger, digest food quickly, and easily feel hungry.
The spleen and stomach are like a fermentation tank, the child has cold and dampness, the spleen and stomach are like a fermentation tank with a very low temperature, and the digestion and absorption capacity is not good, while the spleen and stomach of a damp and hot child are like a fermentation tank with a higher temperature, which digests quickly, but cannot be absorbed.
If the cold and dampness become more and more severe, there will be spleen and stomach yin deficiency, and the child will be particularly afraid of cold, and the hands, feet and stomach will always be warm or notIf the dampness and heat become more and more severe, there will be spleen and stomach yang deficiency, and the child will always be thirsty, lack of fluid, and the hands and feet will always be very hot.
Once the two qi of yin and yang are damaged, the child will be listless, listless, unable to concentrate, will become more prone to fatigue, and the immunity will also be reduced.
Therefore, children have dampness, even if the appetite is very good, we can not let it go, we must eat lightly, eat more vegetables and fruits, avoid spicy, sweet, greasy and other foods, exercise moderately, and adjust work and rest. You can also choose some Chinese herbal teas, such as barley water, hawthorn water, red bean soup, etc.
If the child's problem is already very serious, and there is a situation of yin deficiency and yang deficiency, you must take the child to the doctor in time.