Chinese medicine for iron deficiency anemia in children

Iron deficiency anemia is a common disease in children, especially in infants aged 6 months to 3 years old. Due to various reasons that affect the intake of iron or the absorption of iron is reduced, the iron stores in the body are insufficient, resulting in reduced synthesis of hemoglobin and causing illness. As anemia reduces blood oxygenation capacity, it has a great influence on children's respiratory, digestive, and circulatory system functions, as well as physical development and intelligence.

Iron deficiency anemia most of the onset is slow, the severity of clinical symptoms depends on the degree of anemia and the development of anemia; children often have irritability, lack of energy, decreased activity, loss of appetite, pale skin and mucous membranes, nail deformation (anti-A ) Such performance; large children can be described as fatigue, dizziness, tinnitus, palpitation, shortness of breath, severe illness can occur in limb edema. Heart failure and other symptoms.

The disease belongs to the category of "blood deficiency", "virtual yellowness" and "yellow swelling" in traditional Chinese medicine. According to traditional Chinese medicine, blood is produced in the spleen and stomach, and it is also affected by organs such as heart, liver and kidney. Therefore, the dysfunction of the spleen and stomach, heart, liver and kidney is the pathological basis of iron deficiency anemia, and is also the basis for syndrome differentiation. In addition to clinical treatment of viscera deficiency syndrome differentiation and medication, we must also pay attention to diet conditioning, so that drug treatment and diet can work together to achieve good results. Drug treatment can generally be divided into four types.

A weak spleen is manifested as pale, pale lips and tongue; fatigue, weakness, loss of appetite, stool soft pond, pulse virtual and soft. The commonly used herbs include Radix Astragali, Codonopsis, Angelica, Atractylodes Rhizome, Poria, Citrus and so on.

A blood deficiency type manifested as pale, fatigue, weakness, dry skin, heart lie shortness of breath, sleep is not true, pale and thin pulse. Common prescriptions include Angelica, Rehmannia, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Angelica, Codonopsis, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Suanzaoren, and Longan.

A qi and blood deficiency type showed the above two types of symptoms. Common prescriptions are Astragalus, Codonopsis, Atractylodes, Poria, Angelica, Rehmannia, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Millettia, Ejiao, Citrus, and Zhigancao.

A liver and kidney deficiency type more common anemia for a long time, affecting children's growth and development, its expression of sluggishness, mental retardation, hand, foot and trembling, dizziness, dry eyes, pale tongue and pulse string. Commonly used drugs are turtle shells, white peony, donkey-hide gelatin, system Shouwu, rehmannia, Chinese angelica, Achyranthes bidentata, gardenia, Placenta powder (swallow).

Dietary therapy is an important part of the comprehensive treatment of iron deficiency anemia. For children with mild disease, it is possible to treat it with diet alone. The use of diet in children with severe illness can both accelerate recovery and reduce the side effects of drug treatment. The selected foods are mostly delicious and tasty, easy to eat, and easy to accept for children.

Commonly used foods containing more iron are: animal liver, pig heart, pork belly, lean meat, black beans, spinach, rape, celery, apricot, peach, plum, raisin, red dates, oranges, grapefruit, figs and so on. Among them, oranges, broad oranges, wild jujube, kiwi fruit, tomatoes, red dates, and other fresh fruits are rich in vitamin C, which can promote the absorption of iron and should be eaten regularly.

Common recipes are:

Jujube fungus soup black fungus 15 grams, 15 red dates, warm water bubble hair wash. Put in a small bowl, add water and crystal sugar, and eat it after steaming for 1 hour.

Longan long jujube soup longan meat 30 grams, jujube 10 pieces. Wash longan and jujube into the core for a total of soup.

Pig liver spinach soup 100 grams of liver, spinach 150 to 200 grams. The fresh liver was sliced; spinach was washed and cut into sections; the pot was boiled to open a little ginger and salt, placed in liver slices and spinach, and the water boiled liver cooked, Yin Tang liver and vegetables.

Peanut jujube paste with peanuts 6 to 10 pieces, jujube 6 to 10 pieces (to core). Cook the jujube and peanuts together and pour it into the mud one day and three times with the big date soup.

Acacia roasted bean calcined acacia 30 grams, 250 grams of soybeans. Dissolve the electric cooker in water first, and add the acacia water when frying the soybeans. Serve with fry. Eat 1 each time before meals, 3 times a day.