Physical characteristics of children with recurrent illness
Clinical summary: There are two reasons for children's repeated illness.
Children with repeated colds and coughs can be roughly divided into two categories: one is particularly edible but easy to accumulate food; There is also an allergic constitution, which not only repeatedly catches a cold, but also breathes when coughing; Many things can't be eaten, which leads to retaliatory eating.
Allergic constitution is a common problem faced by children at present, and allergic diseases are also common clinical diseases.
Dietary characteristics of children with allergies: they can eat no meat and revenge food.
Frequent night breast-feeding during lactation, always eating constantly, and ultimately both mother and child are hurt, which I will talk about later. If children are not breast-fed, they are often allergic to milk protein, which is even more tormenting.
Repeated eczema and allergic diarrhea in infants can only be replaced by amino acid milk powder and deeply hydrolyzed milk powder. Because the child's body is seriously lacking in nutrition, the desire for delicious food is deeply embedded in the bones, and "retaliatory eating" will occur after adding complementary food.
So after I was 2 years old, I began to eat revenge dishes.
I don't have enough to eat every day, but the more I eat, the thinner I get. Parents are getting more and more anxious. I wanted to add some fish and shrimp meat to increase the nutrition of my child, but I didn't know it would add more burden to my child's stomach. Later, I had a fever repeatedly, sweated too much and caught a cold repeatedly.
The course of treatment can be described as long and tortuous: anti-inflammatory drugs, anti-allergic drugs, atomization, and infusion caused the child's immunity to get worse and worse, and began to seek help from Chinese medicine. After drinking for a year and a half, he found that the effect was very small, because Chinese medicine also seriously hurt the child's spleen and stomach; And turn to children's massage.
The terrible thing is that many parents don't know that their children are allergic, or the allergic symptoms are atypical.
There are two main reasons for not knowing:
(1) The symptoms of allergies have the characteristics of stages, specifically, they show different symptoms at different ages, and they change from typical allergic symptoms to atypical symptoms, which makes many parents or doctors feel confused.
For example, in infancy, skin eczema allergy is the main cause, and diarrhea caused by intestinal allergy is mostly, but after two years old, inhalation respiratory allergy is the main cause, and gastrointestinal allergy turns into atypical invisible symptoms. Note that constipation is not diarrhea at this time, and the stool is dry and thick.
After the child is 4 years old, the symptoms of allergy are still respiratory symptoms, but the focus is on rhinitis, allergic cough, Tourette's syndrome and other symptoms. Without intervention, rhinitis is the longest allergic symptom in children, and it may even develop into sinusitis.
In fact, with the increase of age, allergic symptoms return to the skin again, and symptoms such as itchy skin appear. Many elderly people actually have severe eczema.
Think carefully and be afraid! This is how allergies come and go in our bodies, vacillating and affecting the next generation. If one parent is allergic, the probability that the child is allergic will exceed 50%, if both parents are allergic, the probability that the child is allergic will exceed 70%.
(2) The symptoms of allergy are changeable, that is, when the immunity is low, people who are not allergic may be rejected.
For example, children get sick repeatedly, take drugs repeatedly, their immunity is getting lower and lower, gastrointestinal allergies and skin allergies are increasing. I was not allergic to some foods, but now I have diarrhea and my skin is red and itchy. Moreover, the airway allergy is serious and the airway reaction is high. As soon as hot and cold air is stimulated, they will cough violently.
There are also adults who suddenly get rhinitis, eczema and urticaria because of overwork and lack of exercise.
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Typical and atypical symptoms of allergic reaction
Typical symptoms of allergic constitution
The symptoms of allergic constitution are atypical: because allergies will shift with the growth of children's age, the symptoms are atypical and easy to be confused. Many parents think that their children are no longer allergic.
In fact, for experienced doctors, it is basically possible to infer whether a child is allergic by complexion. For example, when a child is crying or anxious, a red rash immediately appears on his forehead, his body skin is rough, and his lower eyelid is blue. Compared with his peers, he is generally thin and stunted. (Individual puffy children)
There is also a very interesting phenomenon, that is, clinical findings show that the more beautiful the appearance, the easier it is for children with fair skin to have allergies or asthma. This may be fair to God. Since I gave you a beautiful face, I won't give you a particularly healthy body.
However, there is another kind of child whose face is blue and black, which is called "cyanosis" in Chinese medicine. Their skin is rough, their palms are hot, and most of them are allergic.
Allergic gastrointestinal allergies have more invisible symptoms, so remind parents again.
It is the child's long-term abdominal distension, which is difficult for many parents to find. They always feel that children sweat too much, always get angry, dry stool, red throat, and swollen neck lymph nodes for a long time. '
I always feel that the child is angry, but I don't know where it came from. In fact, the root cause lies in the spleen and stomach. It may be that children are allergic or intolerant to certain foods and produce too much gas.
For example, high-protein dairy products, including biscuits, eggs and cream cakes, including drinking milk before going to bed, including adding fish and shrimp prematurely, may continuously increase the burden on the stomach and lead to bloating.
If the child often has abdominal distension, please carefully check the usual diet and kindergarten recipes, and be careful to avoid allergic things, especially fish and shrimp, egg milk and cold things.
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What is allergy?
Having said so many questions about allergies, many non-professionals may have doubts: what is allergies?
In a more popular way, allergy means that the human immune system is over-sensitive and mistook good people for bad people.
The immune system of ordinary people's symptoms is only sensitive to viruses and bacteria, while allergic patients are sensitive to many high-protein foods, such as dust mites, pollen, fluff, etc., in addition to the invasion of viruses and bacteria, and produce rejection reactions.
So allergic children are prone to catch a cold, then have a fever, then cough, and then start to gasp. It can be said that the condition developed rapidly and turned sharply, and parents began to seek medical advice in a panic.
Whether you have a fever or a cough, it has always been a rejection, and the human immune system has been self-regulating and self-protecting.
About the causes of allergies
The mechanism and cause of allergic reaction in modern medicine have not yet reached a conclusion. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is the imbalance of lung, spleen and kidney function, and the deficiency of both lung and spleen. It seems that this statement can explain any disease like this. I always thought that Chinese medicine only missed the influence of liver and viscera function on allergic reaction.
Because the liver governs the drainage, storing blood, and controlling the internal wind, the wind is changeable and easy to combine with the external wind, resulting in repeated colds, which is in line with the characteristics of allergic diseases. Moreover, the liver has a great influence on emotions, and children with allergies are more sensitive to emotions. So it is useless to treat allergies without treating the liver.
Secondly, allergy has the most direct relationship with gastrointestinal function. If the spleen and stomach function is good, the spleen and stomach are healthy and the stomach is rotten, the food you eat can be well processed, decomposed and transformed into fine substances, and then transported to the lungs, and the dregs will be handed down. After the small intestine is turbid, the large intestine dries up and is discharged in the form of stool. This is a normal cycle.
Children with allergies, if they have innate spleen and stomach functions, can't decompose high-protein things, can't effectively transform them, and can't form subtle (very subtle things like fog and gas) macromolecules. If they are not completely decomposed, they can penetrate intestinal mucosal cells and enter the immune system and blood system, causing immune abnormalities and itchy skin.
Therefore, the most common problems of allergic diseases are fever, repeated fever and high white blood cells, all of which are due to continuous antigen stimulation, leading to immune system disorder.
What is even more frightening is that what children eat is not effectively absorbed, leading to nutritional deficiency. Instinctive reaction is to take revenge, keep eating, keep hurting the spleen and stomach, a vicious circle, just like a virus in a computer.
The explanation of Chinese medicine for abdominal distension is simple: abdominal distension due to spleen deficiency is caused by constant retaliatory diet.
After reading the above, you can basically understand the causes of children's allergies and know how to care for them. How to love children?
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How to care for children with allergic constitution
Your love may be harmful to children.
First of all, children who emphasize allergic constitution are the most "empty". The more fish and shrimp are supplemented, the worse the immunity is. The more you raise, the less likely you are to get sick.
There is a simple reason. Children with allergies have poor spleen and stomach function, especially when the stool is not smooth, the gastrointestinal burden is too heavy, and high-protein foods cannot be decomposed. These gastrointestinal stagnation will produce allergens and aggravate allergic diseases. For example, children don't cough and eat fish and shrimp, because the stomach and intestines can't be decomposed, and the cough will be aggravated.
Children with allergies should give up bedtime milk. This parent can observe, summarize and reflect. Your opinion of milk before going to bed may enhance children's immunity, but it increases the frequency of children's illness.
Especially for kindergarten children, two bags of milk and yogurt are generally standard. If they drink milk at home, the children will get angry, sweat more and not eat staple food and snacks, which is the most deadly. The marketing of milk powder advertisements has brainwashed China people's dietary tradition for thousands of years, which is more harmful to the spleen and stomach of children in China.
Do children need to be tested for allergens? Can't you eat allergic food?
For allergic symptoms that are not particularly typical and serious, it is not recommended to detect allergens, because we said above that allergies are changing, and allergies to certain foods are also changing.
However, severe allergic reactions and allergic diseases, such as asthma and eczema, show that testing and avoiding allergens is the most effective treatment to prevent allergic diseases.
We say that children with allergies have passed infancy, mainly typical respiratory allergy symptoms, which are related to inhalation and food allergies.
Inhalation allergy, such as cold air, dust and smog, pollen, fluff, etc. It is difficult to avoid, so children are prone to sneezing, runny nose and high airway reaction (severe cough, choking cough).
Therefore, the key point of nursing is: when the weather is bad, we must pay attention to it in the season of alternating hot and cold, and we must wear masks to reduce going out.
Children with runny nose and rhinitis should take shelter from the wind, especially between buildings. Avoid going out in windy weather, and pay attention to wearing high-necked clothes for children to prevent wind and ward off evil spirits.
However, children with big liver fire and heavy internal heat should be careful not to wear too thick, which is easy to sweat, sweat out of the wind and catch a cold.
Children who cough repeatedly should go to public places, such as supermarkets and urban playgrounds, where the air is dirty and easy to be infected.
Children with weak immunity and repeated colds are advised to postpone sending them to kindergarten and school for one year, which can reduce the probability of illness.
In addition, children with allergies are also sensitive and irritable, and parents should pay attention to emotional counseling.