What should a normal child's small tongue look like?
A normal and healthy child's tongue should be moderate in size, soft, reddish and moist, elastic and clear in pronunciation, with a thin and light tongue coating with moderate humidity and no peculiar smell in the mouth. Once the child is sick, the quality of the tongue coating and the tongue coating will also change. In fact, small tongue is like a "barometer" reflecting children's physical health, especially the gastrointestinal digestive function of children is vividly displayed on the small tongue. If a mother can understand the changes in small tongue, she can find the abnormality of her child as soon as possible and prevent it before it happens. In this way, children can get sick less and grow up healthier.
When the child has a fever, small tongue.
Children with a cold and fever first show a shorter tongue, red tongue, often sticking out of the mouth, less tongue coating, or dry tongue coating. If the body temperature is high and the tongue is red, it means that the child is seriously injured by heat and consumes body fluid, so the child often asks for water to drink. If accompanied by dry stool at the same time, there is often a foul smell in the mouth. This situation often occurs in the early stage of some upper respiratory tract infections or infectious diseases, so mothers should pay attention. Children with severe fever can still see thick red thorns on their tongues, just like bayberry in the market. This "bayberry tongue" is more common in children with scarlet fever or Kawasaki disease.
Therapeutic countermeasures
1, attention should be paid to timely treatment of the primary disease that causes children's fever, timely physical cooling or oral antipyretic drugs.
2, pay attention to give children more boiled water, eat less greasy food and sweet fruit.
3. You can buy fresh reed rhizome or dried reed rhizome decoction for children to take.
Every mother is always concerned about whether her children are well fed and warm. If a child has a slight fever and discomfort, it will soon be discovered by a careful mother, but many mothers don't pay attention to the changes of the child's small tongue. Only when the child has a bad meal or complains about a sore tongue will the mother let him open his mouth to see if his throat is red, but he won't notice any change in the child's small tongue. Even if a thick layer of things is found on the child's small tongue, I don't know what happened, what caused it, and how to prevent and deal with it. In fact, there are four kinds of "sunny and rainy displays" for children's small tongue.