Why is the baby's tongue coating white?

A baby's physique and immune ability are not as good as those of an adult, and during the period immediately after birth, the baby's body is not well developed in all aspects. Including the body's digestive system and organs are immature. At this time, some parents find that their children's tongue coating is white, while the normal tongue coating is pink. Parents are more worried about whether the baby is sick, so let’s find out what’s going on when the baby’s tongue coating is white?

The thick white coating on the baby's tongue means that the digestive system is still immature, the secretion of gastric acid and digestive enzymes is less, and the activity of digestive enzymes is low, making it difficult for them to adapt to large changes in the quality and quantity of food. In addition, the nervous system's regulatory function on the gastrointestinal tract is poor, and the immune function is poor, making it very easy for them to suffer from indigestion. The child's tongue coating is thick and white, and he has indigestion, which is what Chinese medicine calls weak spleen and stomach. Give your child more boiled water, observe whether the child's stool is dry, give the baby some medicine to help digestion, and it will be fine after some conditioning.

Physical discomfort will also be directly reflected in the tongue coating, such as some diseases of the digestive system, or the child's bad eating habits, often eating too much before going to bed, these will affect the child's digestion. At this time, you can help the child massage the abdomen and pat his back, which will also help the child's digestion. Many children have thick white tongue coating due to indigestion. Their intestinal function is not very good, but they eat too much food, which leads to poor digestion. If the baby's tongue coating is thick white due to indigestion, it is best to control the child's diet on a daily basis and pay more attention to letting him eat easily digestible food.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that there are many factors that cause children's tongue coating to become thick and white. For example, getting a fever is also an important cause of the thick and white tongue coating. Therefore, we should be in a good mood every day to avoid children getting angry. Children can be given more heat-clearing and detoxifying foods, such as white radish, lotus root, mung bean, hawthorn, etc. Children should be given more vegetables and fruits every day, and they must be given enough water. If the problem of thick white tongue coating is still very serious, then the following can be used:

Job's tears: It has the effect of clearing away heat and removing dampness. It can be cooked into porridge with rock sugar and given to children as a snack.

Light bamboo leaves: Refresh the mind and promote urination. They can relieve the discomfort of urination caused by getting angry. At the same time, light bamboo leaves do not only clear away internal heat, but can also regulate the spleen, stomach and intestines of the baby. You can use light bamboo leaves to make water for your child to drink on a daily basis.

Rice sprouts: They can help digestion, relieve children’s problems with food accumulation and fever caused by indigestion, and help children defecate easily and excrete toxins from the body.

In short, if the child's tongue coating is thick and greasy, or is relatively thick but also has a white problem, then under normal circumstances it means that the baby's body is "hot". Most babies with thick tongue coating will also have bad breath, constipation, excessive eye discharge, indigestion, irritability, crying at night and other problems. At this time, mothers need targeted conditioning.

You should prepare some health care products with the function of reducing heat at home. If your child has a fever or a thick white tongue coating, you can take them in time. In addition, lack of sleep can also cause thick white tongue coating. Therefore, you should also adjust your child’s sleep time on a daily basis, especially now is the hottest season of the year, and you should pay more attention to letting your child have a good sleeping environment.

What’s the matter with baby’s white tongue coating? I have given you a detailed introduction above. I hope that some parents will understand after seeing this that this situation may be because the child’s digestive system is not very good. Parents should pay attention to taking good care of their children’s diet and choose foods that are beneficial to their healthy growth.