What foods are good for children's spleen?

It is quite common for children to have symptoms of spleen deficiency. We can regulate the spleen and stomach of children through food, such as giving them red dates and millet porridge, lotus seeds and yam porridge, and Adenophora, Ophiopogon and lentil porridge. The main thing is to pay attention to a light diet, which can regulate the spleen and stomach. The following is an introduction to spleen-tonifying foods for children. It is recommended that you read the following content and adjust your child’s diet.

1. What foods can nourish the spleen of babies?

To nourish the spleen, babies can eat red dates and millet porridge, lotus seeds and yam porridge, and Adenophora, Ophiopogon and lentil porridge. The following are detailed introductions.

1. Red Date Millet Porridge

Take 10 red dates and 30 grams of millet. Wash the millet first and then fry it in a pan over low heat until it turns slightly yellow. Then add water and red dates, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat to make porridge for consumption. Suitable for babies with spleen deficiency who suffer from indigestion and anorexia.

2. Lotus seed and yam porridge

Take 30 grams of lotus seeds, 80 grams of yam, and 50 grams of japonica rice. Peel and core the lotus seeds, add yam, rice and water to cook into porridge for consumption. Suitable for babies with weak spleen and stomach who are emaciated and have poor appetite.

3. Adenophora, Ophiopogon japonicus and Lentil Porridge

Take 10 grams of Adenophora Root, 10 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, 15 grams of Lentils, and 50 grams of Japonica Rice. First, boil Adenophora Root and Ophiopogon japonicus in water for 20 minutes to extract the juice. Add the juice to rice and lentils and cook it into porridge for consumption. It is suitable for babies with spleen yin deficiency who have hot palms and soles, dry stool and poor appetite.

2. Symptoms of weak spleen and stomach in children

1. The patient has trouble sleeping and tends to cry or get frightened in the middle of the night.

2. Poor appetite, small food intake, picky eater and dislike of staple food.

3. Intestinal motility slows down, bowel movements are blocked, the stool is dry and hard at the beginning and becomes rotten at the end, which is called cold constipation.

4. Sweating easily during the day, and sweating profusely with the slightest movement.

5. Poor spirit, lack of spirit (only in children) The whole face is pale and blue (lack of spirit)

6. The face is yellow or grayish, with a faint blue vein between the eyes.

7. There is a faint blue glow around the eyes, mouth, philtrum, nose, and forehead (compared to the rosy cheeks)

8. The body is thin, cannot gain weight or grow taller, or is bloated, fat but weak.

9. Feeling sleepy easily, sleeping in class, getting tired easily, and not liking to exercise (it is better for children who have sufficient yang energy and like to move around).

10. Weak body and easy to catch colds, children's chronic diseases such as chronic cough, allergic rhinitis, etc. The spleen and stomach are the foundation of acquired constitution. There are many reasons why children's spleen and stomach become weak, worse and cold, which are mainly caused by unhealthy lifestyle and eating habits. Children's spleen and stomach deficiency and weakness can lead to a series of consequences, the most important of which is that it affects development or has various chronic diseases such as allergic rhinitis, asthma, etc. since childhood.

3. How to treat weak spleen and stomach in children

To prevent weak spleen and stomach, parents must feed their children properly, and not eat too much meat to avoid food poisoning; do not abuse some heat-clearing and fire-purging drugs, such as Isatis root granules, heat-clearing and fire-purging oral liquid, etc., so as to avoid bitter and cold food that can hurt the stomach; do not eat too much snacks, etc.

Children with weak spleen and stomach and internal coldness should develop the habit of drinking hot drinks and should not eat too much yogurt to avoid disrupting the acid-base balance in the intestine. You can eat more yam, taro, pumpkin, and coix seed, and less greasy and cold food. For home use, you can use Chinese patent medicines such as Shenling Baizhu San and Yingying Jianpi San.

Children with internal heat should eat less dry, fried, and spicy foods, drink less liquid protein foods such as milk, and eat more foods such as pumpkin, carrots, and kelp. For home medication, you can choose Xiaoer Huaji Oral Liquid to achieve the effect of clearing heat and digesting food, or take Feier Pills intermittently, which has the effects of clearing heat, digesting food and relieving constipation. Parents should remember not to overuse cold medicines just because their baby has dry stools.

I believe that through our introduction and explanation above, parents must have known what foods can nourish the baby's spleen, as well as the symptoms of weak spleen and stomach in children and how to regulate weak spleen and stomach in children. If the baby shows symptoms of weak spleen and stomach, parents must pay special attention and prepare some spleen-nourishing food for the baby. If the condition is serious, seek medical attention as soon as possible.