Baby's normal tongue picture
The baby's tongue symptoms are normal. The child's tongue coating is thin, white and moist.
White and thick tongue coating: mostly cold and wet. Due to cold and dampness, it is common in colds, tracheitis and diarrhea. , manifested as loss of appetite, bloating, loose stools, dizziness, etc.
Diet conditioning: You can choose foods that strengthen the spleen, warm the stomach and eliminate dampness, such as beef soup, mutton soup, onion, coix seed, orange, toon, coriander and carrot. You should not eat fried and sweet food.
Yellow and greasy tongue coating: mostly damp-heat in the spleen and stomach, which is found in various infectious diseases and digestive tract dysfunction. It is characterized by fever, thirst, dry stool, loss of appetite, short and red urine, abdominal distension and nausea.
Diet conditioning: You can choose foods that clear away heat and promote diuresis, such as white radish, tomato, mung bean, towel gourd, hawthorn, pear, lotus root starch, kiwi fruit, coix seed and so on.
Dry tongue coating: mostly body fluid, seen in dehydration and high fever. It is characterized by thirst, dry throat, dry nose, chapped lips and skin loss of elasticity.
Diet conditioning: You can choose foods that moisten dryness and promote fluid production, such as watermelon, carrot, sugarcane, grape, pear, water chestnut, hawthorn and kumquat.
Stripping the tongue coating: the tongue coating falls off in many places, mostly caused by the injury of both qi and yin, which is found in eczema, allergic asthma, chronic diarrhea and so on. It is characterized by pale face, night sweats, loss of appetite, asthma, dry stool and irritability.
Diet: You can choose foods that nourish yin and strengthen the spleen, such as lotus seeds, lilies, cucumbers, mushrooms, soybean milk, apples, tremella, yam and so on. Avoid spicy food, such as curry, pepper, mutton, onion, ginger, etc.
Normal children's tongues are moist and reddish.
Pale tongue: mostly blood deficiency, seen in nutritional anemia, iron deficiency anemia, chronic nephritis, leukemia and so on. Manifested as pale face, lips, nails, fatigue, dizziness, loss of appetite and so on.
Diet conditioning: you can choose foods that strengthen the spleen and nourish blood, such as red beans, red dates, longan, chicken and duck blood, pig liver, dairy products, green leafy vegetables and so on.
Red tongue with thorns: mostly heat toxin, which is found in septicemia, high fever and severe pneumonia. It is characterized by shortness of breath, coma and convulsions.
Diet conditioning: optional food for clearing heat and nourishing stomach, such as pear, sugarcane juice, rice soup, apple juice, etc.
Purple tongue: mostly caused by qi deficiency and blood stasis, it is seen in congenital heart disease, neonatal asphyxia and atelectasis. It is characterized by blue face and lips, shortness of breath after exercise and thickening of sublingual collaterals.
Diet conditioning: foods with high protein, high calorie and rich vitamins can be given. Eat a small amount of food and drink plenty of water to avoid dehydration leading to thrombosis. You can choose milk, steamed eggs, apples, chicken and duck soup, cauliflower, spinach and so on.
The baby's tongue coating reflects that the tongue coating is not healthy: red tongue.
A normal and healthy baby's tongue should be of moderate size, soft, reddish and moist, flexible and articulate, with thin tongue coating, moderate humidity and no peculiar smell in the mouth. Once the baby is sick, the tongue quality and tongue coating will change accordingly.
If the baby has a cold and fever, the first manifestation is that the tongue is red and the tongue coating is slightly yellow and white. If the fever is high, the tongue is crimson and the tongue coating is dry, it means that the baby consumes body fluid by heat.
Fever is often accompanied by dry stool, and the baby often has a strong smell in his mouth. This situation usually shows that the baby is angry and the mother should pay attention. A baby with a severe fever can sometimes see thick red thorns on his tongue.
Yellow and white tongue coating: thick and sticky.
If the baby's small tongue is covered with thick yellow and white scales, the tongue coating is sticky and thick, and it is not easy to scrape off. At the same time, there will be a sour and smelly fishy smell in the mouth. This situation is probably caused by overeating, eating too much greasy food and poor digestive function of the spleen and stomach. People call it food accumulation.
If the baby has the above situation, it is likely to be eating too much, too full, and digestive dysfunction. At this time, it should be noted that when the baby has this tongue coating, the diet should be relatively light. If the baby has accumulated food, he can take some food such as Xiaoshi medicine or hawthorn according to the specific situation, or take Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli 15g and hawthorn 30g, one dose a day. If the baby's stool is dry and abdominal distension is obvious, you can take it with 6g of radish, 6g of cassia seed and 0/0g of Fructus Trichosanthis/kloc-0, which can also help digestion and lead to stagnation.
Pale white tongue: map tongue
Sometimes when a mother looks at the baby's small tongue, she will find that the baby's uvula looks like a map: the tongue is pale, with one or more parts of the tongue coating falling off, and the edge of the falling off is as high as a picture frame, which looks like a map. When the baby eats hot food, there may even be tongue discomfort or slight pain.
Most of the baby's map tongue is due to digestive dysfunction, or the baby's long illness, which makes the body hurt both qi and yin. Babies with map tongues tend to be picky eaters, partial eclipse, cold drinks, unstable sleep, kicking quilts and rolling their eyes. Younger babies are prone to crying, hot flashes and sweating, sallow complexion, emaciation, fear of cold, hot palms and so on. Li Jian suggested that at this time, the baby should eat more fresh fruits and green or red vegetables, and pay attention to avoid fried, smoked, greasy and spicy food. You can use a proper amount of yam, white lentils and red dates to cook porridge with coix seed and millet for your baby. If you eat it with animal liver, the effect will be better. If the baby's face is pale, tired, dry mouth and dry stool are mostly caused by both qi and yin injuries, you can use lily, lotus seeds, medlar and raw astragalus to cook soup, which will improve the tongue.