What should I do if my child has indigestion and has trouble falling asleep? Use these acupoints quickly

Inappropriate diet, irregular work and rest, travel fatigue, and lack of emotional care are often the causes of illness in children. How can we quickly detect the signs of children's illness and prevent it before it happens?

Eating and drinking too much can cause indigestion in children

Children often have "deficient spleen" and do not know how to control their milk and food intake. If they are not properly cared for and fed, they are easily harmed by milk and food, which leads to stagnation. "Medical Biography" says: "The initial cause of illness is mostly due to indulgence in food and drink."

Therefore, when providing food to children, we should be more careful, avoid excessive raw, cold, spicy, greasy and other irritating foods, and pay attention to restrictions, so as not to let children with poor self-control overeat, and pay attention to food hygiene to prevent food poisoning and infectious enteritis. If the child has already shown signs of indigestion and the parents do not discover and deal with it in time, the child will be very likely to get sick next, and exogenous infection, cough, fever, etc. are very common.

Common symptoms of food accumulation in children include loss of appetite, thick tongue coating, bad breath, bloating or stomach pain, abnormal bowel movements, belching, restless sleep, etc. Parents can perform massage in time to treat the signs of food accumulation. The specific methods are as follows:

1. Rub the door

Specific operation: Banmen is located on the thenar plane of the palm or the midpoint of the thenar plane of the palm. You can press and rub Banmen for 2 minutes.

2. Clear the stomach meridian

Specific operation: The operator uses the thumb or index finger to push the radial edge of the second knuckle of the thumb from the palm to the fingertip for 1 minute.

3. Chiropractic

Specific operation: Place the thumbs on both sides of the spine, with the fingertips facing upward against the skin and flesh. Use the thumbs and index and middle fingers of both hands to pinch the skin and flesh of the back. Push the thumbs forward, and twist the index and middle fingers of both hands back alternately at the same time. The two cooperate with each other. After lifting and pinching three times, squeeze and pinch once in the direction of the Du channel. Pinch and release at the same time, alternately, and twist and pinch the skin forward, from the coccyx to the Dazhui. Perform 3-9 times daily.

Irregular weekend schedule, hard to sleep after the holidays

During the weekends, children's daily routines will also change. Staying up late and getting up late are common. If their biological clocks are not adjusted in time, they will easily be energetic at night and drowsy during the day after the holidays.

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine says: "The heart is the organ of the monarch, and the spirit comes out of it." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sleep is closely related to the mind, and children's restless sleep is mostly related to the heart.

Autumn dryness is rampant, and dry evil damages body fluid, which can easily lead to yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire. Children already have "always excess heart", yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire, and insufficient heart fluid. Children's heart fire becomes more and more vigorous, making it difficult for them to fall asleep and sleep restlessly.

1. Qingtian River Water

Specific operation: Use your left hand to hold the child's forearm and wrist, with his palm facing up. Then put the index finger and middle finger of your right hand together, and push straight in one direction from the midpoint of the wrist transverse line to the midpoint of the elbow transverse line, 100-300 times.

2. Press and rub Yongquan acupoint

Specific operation: Yongquan point is located on the sole of the foot, in the front third of the sole. It is the depression when the toes are flexed. Use your thumb or index finger to press and rub it back and forth. It is advisable to rub each sole 100 times.

The holiday is too exciting, and it is difficult to focus after the holiday

There are many gatherings and entertainment activities during the holidays, and some families will go out for travel, which will make children very excited. The liver stores the soul and dominates consciousness and thinking activities. If children are overly active and excited, it will lead to hyperactivity of liver fire.

Emotional problems are prone to occur after the holidays, such as bad temper, irritability, and lack of concentration, while older children may show signs of low spirits and depression.

1. Clear the liver meridian

Specific operation: Push the threaded surface of the distal segment of the index finger straight from the base to the fingertip, 100-300 times.

2. Massage the small Tianxin

Specific operation: Xiaotianxin is located at the base of the palm, where the thenar and hypothenar intersect. Press and rub with the thumb for 3-5 minutes.

How to be more effective

Pediatric massage has certain requirements for the manipulation skills. Parents can only perform massage on their own as a daily health care measure. If the baby's problem is more serious, it is recommended that parents take the baby to the hospital for treatment in time.

Attention! Children's skin is delicate, so parents must pay attention to the medium (baby oil, lotion, etc.) used when giving massage to their babies.

Source: Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital

Audit expert: Li Quntang

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