If parents find baby seems to be ill, may first selection of measuring body temperature thermometer for measuring Pulse Rate or to confirm, but it was under the influence of several factors in two ways, larger changes, poor reliability. Here, we recommend a simple and easy way for parents--see the tongue.
Close relationship between tongue and offal, when visceral lesions occur, will be from the tongue, tongue, tongue forms of these three aspects appear.
See coverings
Normal baby\'s tongue is a thin white and moist.
· When indigestion caused stomach, indigestion, coughing sputum, tongue becomes thick greasy;
· Children caught cold, especially in the beginning of the cold, appears on the surface of the tongue a thick layer of White Moss. After the development of cold, sticky tongue coating will turn yellow, indicating that thermal imaging more obvious;
· When dehydration due to diarrhoea or fever does not return the children, there will be dry tongue;
· Some allergic diseases appear pattern tongue or the peeling of the coating of the tongue;
· Found babies have white spots on the surface of the tongue, has even lips may children stomach bug;
· Black Moss and dry like a split at the end of the River, often in long-term high fever of seriously ill children.
However, the tongue sometimes is \"false\", as had just eaten milk, fur is white; eat oranges, color yellow; eat olives, tongue of a terrible black sth So, to discover baby tongue there are exceptions, parents also need to exclude these conditions.
Tongue
Normal baby\'s tongue moist and pink.
· Anemia and leukemia in babies, because the hemoglobin significantly reduced, qualitative changes of tongue very pale; severe diarrhea accompanied by dehydration of high fever or illness, qualitative changes of tongue Cheng Hongjiang color with mount thrust;
· After illness, some children injuring yin essence, tongue surface becomes dry red, feels like a pig kidney surface, called the mirror of traditional Chinese medicine tongue;
· Tongue purple or purple plaque, which is due to blood circulation problems, body induced by anoxia, seen in neonatal asphyxia, congenital cyanotic heart disease.
Tongue shape
Flexible normal baby tongue activity.
· When tongue tough, movement restriction, indicates a turbid-phlegm blockade, seen in viral encephalitis sequela;
· Tongue jitter expansion, many seen in brain development is incomplete;
· Wind evil tongue for an external oblique violations thread, see cerebral vascular accident;
· Tongue extended, not for a long time back, seen in hypothyroidism causes cretinism;
· Repeatedly out of the tongue licking lips, immediately back, known as the tongue, common in mongolism.
Dynamic changes of tongue
In the course of illness, due to the baby\'s frail condition susceptible to repeated or aggravated, then if the parents can understand your baby\'s \"language of the tongue\", stresses the baby soon has a very big help.
· Tongue from light red to red-purple, is heat easy-to-digest;
· Tongue from white into yellow is cold to heat;
· Tongue transferred from yellow go gray suggests that the illness;
· Tongue from without to have, that gradually restore digestive function;
· Tongue transferred from thin-thick, explains dyspepsia increased;
· Tongue transferred from thick and thin, explains gastrointestinal digestion reduces recovery or expectoration.
