Tongue coating during early pregnancy

Many women will prepare for pregnancy before they get pregnant, usually for three to six months, in order to conceive a healthy and smart baby. After becoming pregnant, pregnant women should also pay attention to maintenance, especially in the early stages of pregnancy when the fetus is unstable, and pregnant women should take good care of themselves. Some pregnant women have white or abnormal tongue coating in the early stages of pregnancy. If you feel any discomfort, it is best to consult a doctor or seek treatment through traditional Chinese medicine.

What is the reason for a thick white tongue coating during pregnancy?

Thick tongue coating that is hair-like is called "hairy tongue coating". It means that the external evil is more severe. There is stagnation in the body. The thickness, dryness and moistness of the tongue coating are closely related to digestive system diseases. Thick and greasy tongue coating may be seen when people suffer from constipation, chronic diarrhea, or indigestion. In case of intestinal obstruction, the tongue coating is dry, thick and greasy. Also, people who usually have very little tongue coating, if they wake up in the morning and find that their tongue coating has become particularly thick and greasy, as if it was covered with a layer of grease, and at the same time find that they have no taste for food, and may also have abdominal bloating and loose stools, this means that you may have eaten too much in the past two days and the excessive greasy food made your stomach and intestines unable to adapt, resulting in dysfunction. Chinese medicine calls this food accumulation. This requires timely adjustment of diet, dietary restriction, and adequate rest for the gastrointestinal tract. A thick white tongue coating during pregnancy may be a symptom caused by spleen and stomach deficiency. Generally, you can strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, such as the commonly used Bupi Yichang Pills, and there will be improvement. Pay attention to eating easily digestible food and try to eat liquid food to help nourish the stomach.

Yellow tongue coating: It is usually seen in the course of febrile diseases, indicating that the struggle between evil and righteousness is very fierce, the disease has entered the interior, and the evil has turned into heat.

First, inflammatory infection: acute infectious diseases in various clinical departments, such as meningitis, Japanese encephalitis, leptospirosis, severe pneumonia, severe hepatitis, intestinal infection, acute pyelonephritis, etc. Because the tongue mucosa of patients with inflammatory infection is prone to inflammatory cell infiltration similar to that of focal infection, the tongue itself also has inflammatory infection, and a large number of bacteria and inflammatory exudates accumulate on the surface of the tongue.

Second, fever: Someone counted 100 patients with yellow tongue coating, among which 63 had fever symptoms. Therefore, fever is closely related to yellow tongue coating. Because the human body consumes more body fluids when the temperature rises, saliva secretion decreases, and the mouth becomes dry, inflammatory exudates and microorganisms are more likely to stay and multiply on the tongue, causing the tongue coating to turn yellow.

Third, digestive tract dysfunction: patients with digestive system diseases such as chronic gastritis, ulcer disease, chronic hepatitis, colitis, habitual constipation, indigestion and other gastrointestinal dysfunction may produce sulfur dioxide and other sulfides that overflow along the digestive tract, are adsorbed and deposited by the filiform papillae of the tongue, and make the tongue coating turn yellow.

How to treat a white tongue

A white tongue is not necessarily a sign of disease. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, if the tongue coating appears thick or white, and there are no other discomfort symptoms in the body, it is generally considered to be a manifestation of "getting angry". This condition often leads to an unpleasant odor in the mouth or even bad breath. Therefore, it is recommended that you use a toothbrush to gently brush your tongue coating when brushing your teeth to take good care of your tongue. It is best to eat a light diet. In addition, if this situation persists for a long time, you should go to the oral department of the hospital, because white tongue coating may also be a symptom of gastrointestinal disease.

1. Eat a light diet

Thick tongue coating indicates poor digestive function. At this time, you should reduce the intake of meat and fatty foods and eat more easily digestible foods. If it is difficult to reduce the intake of meat, you can replace red meat such as beef, mutton and pork with white meat such as fish and chicken. White meat is easier to digest. In addition, you should eat more vegetables and consume enough vegetables every day, such as celery, rapeseed, etc., to increase gastrointestinal motility and promote digestion.

2. Eat more foods that strengthen the spleen and stomach

If the spleen and stomach are not in harmony, the tongue coating will easily become thick. You should eat more foods that strengthen the spleen and stomach, such as apples, which can strengthen the spleen, replenish qi and benefit the stomach, promote fluid production and moisten dryness; eat more cabbage, spinach, pumpkin, carrots, etc., which are good for nourishing the spleen and stomach. If you want to increase the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach, you can mix ginseng, poria, astragalus, white atractylodes, licorice, etc. with food to make medicated diet, which will have better effects.

3. Drink more health porridge

Porridge is the best for nourishing the spleen and stomach, mainly because porridge is easy to digest, especially Eight Treasure Porridge, Four Black Porridge (black beans, black rice, black sesame seeds, coix seeds), etc. Drinking it after the various beans are fully cooked is good for the stomach. Among them, fresh peanuts are rich in protein and fat, which can effectively protect the spleen and stomach. If you persist, the tongue coating will slowly recover.

4. Keep exercising

If you can persist in exercising for half an hour every day, you can enhance your body's resistance, accelerate blood circulation, and be of great benefit to strengthening the spleen and stomach function. Exercise requires a proper method and a combination of work and rest. Don't overdo it, otherwise it will hurt your body.

5. Keep a happy mood

When you are in a good mood, your body will naturally feel light during diet and work, and your spleen and stomach will function normally, which is very beneficial for relieving the symptoms of thick white tongue coating. If you are often depressed, or experience extreme joy or sorrow, it will cause great harm to your internal organs. Therefore, we should pay attention to relieving stress and not be a workaholic. After all, our health is the capital of revolution.