Infantile food retention

　　According to traditional Chinese medicine, it is mainly due to overeating of greasy and thick foods, accumulation without digestion, and Qi stagnation. The main cause of this disease is internal retention of milk and food, which damages the spleen and stomach. The pathological mechanism is that milk and food are not digested, retained in the gastrointestinal tract, the spleen fails to transport, and Qi stagnates. Food retention can be divided into retention of milk and retention of food. Retention of milk is often due to unregulated breastfeeding, excessive milk intake, or milk spoilage, with cold and hot imbalances, all leading to retention in the spleen and stomach, causing congestion and not digestion, forming milk retention. Retention of food is often due to improper feeding, partial eating, overeating, mixed eating, and irregular intake of cold and greasy foods; food not digested; or overeating of foods that are difficult to digest, such as persimmons, jujubes, and other sweet and greasy foods, which accumulate in the middle energizer and cause disease. As the saying goes, 'Overeating of food and drink injures the intestines and stomach.'

　　Anxiety and restlessness, crying at night, or fever and other symptoms. A few children with prolonged food retention may be neglected and not treated in time, leading to severe damage to the spleen and stomach function, causing malnutrition and developmental disorders in children, the body becoming increasingly emaciated, which may transform into malnutrition. Therefore, there is the saying of the ancients: 'Retention is the mother of malnutrition, and without retention, there can be no malnutrition.' Symptoms such as epigastric and abdominal pain, constipation, and foul-smelling stools may occur; or retention may cause congestion, leading to不通 of the viscera, with symptoms of abdominal distension and pain, and constipation.

　　1. Food Retention

　　Loss of appetite, irritability, restless sleep, vomiting milk clots or sour food, acid-smelling or loose stools, white or yellow thick and greasy coating, wiry and slippery pulse.

　　2. Weak Spleen and Stomach

　　Yellowish face, fatigue, loss of appetite, restless sleep, abdominal fullness, desire to press, vomiting sour milk food, loose stools with sour smell, or with residues of milk and food, white and thick coating, thin and weak pulse.

　　Firstly, moderate diet should be eaten, avoid overeating and drinking, eat fresh and clean food, and do not overeat fried and greasy indigestible food. It is necessary to pay attention to 'milk should be eaten at the right time, and food should be eaten in moderation' in daily life. Secondly, feeding should not be too urgent to prevent swallowing air. After breastfeeding, the child should be held upright and gently pat the back to expel the inhaled air.

　　The symptoms of children with food retention are not typical. Combined with the child's medical history, diagnosis can be made based on the results of examinations such as electrogastrography, gastrointestinal motility, urinalysis, blood routine, stool routine, and temperature measurement.

　　Children should develop good eating habits from a young age, ensure a reasonable diet structure, avoid overeating and drinking, and eat fresh and clean food. Do not overeat fried and greasy indigestible food. Should not overeat cold and greasy foods..

　　1. Boil congee with 50g of rice, 100g of white radish, and 100g of carrot.

　　2. Grind equal parts of sprouted grains, hawthorn, areca nuts, and枳壳 into powder and take it with water, 1-2g each time, three times a day.

　　3. Burnt Steamed Bread Congee or Burnt Rice Congee. Cut the steamed bread into pieces, fry and add water to cook into congee, or fry the rice yellow and cook into congee, or use a certain amount of rice crust in the pot to make water to drink.

　　4. Jinjin Congee. Grind 15 grams of chicken gizzard and 15 grams of rice into powder, mix with congee. Take 2 grams of powder each time, twice a day.