Patient's question:
Tianjing symptom description: Diarrhea for about 8 days, yellow stools with curds, occasional foam, with an acidic odor. Spirit, eating, and sleeping are normal.Treatment history and effectiveness: Took medication including Maimi Ai, Compound Jijin Powder for Children, Gentamicin Granules, and Dingui Ertie. None were effective.
Help needed: Is this considered physiological diarrhea? Was not breastfed directly at birth, but breastfeeding started five days later.
Doctor's answer:
Analysis of the condition: Based on the symptoms you described, from a traditional Chinese medicine perspective, it is likely due to the child's weak spleen and stomach.Suggestions: Given that the child is very young, it is best to avoid medication. Here is a very simple yet highly effective method: moxibustion on the navel to regulate the condition. Moisten the navel with a bit of alcohol and place a cone of moxa on it, ensuring the distance is comfortable for the child. Each session should last about 15 minutes, but it is best to perform it under the guidance of a moxibustion therapist. Alternatively, you can have a pediatric massage therapist perform pediatric massage to regulate the child's condition.
For the child's illness, pediatric massage is the preferred treatment. Traditional Chinese pediatric massage techniques, when applied correctly and with proper technique, can be far more effective than any drug therapy (especially Western medicine) and cause almost no harm to the child.