Patient's question:
How to treat and prevent constipation and picky eating in a six-year-old child?Doctor's answer:
Childhood anorexia and constipation are manifestations of disharmony in the spleen and stomach. Additionally, children should avoid picky eating and a meat-deficient diet. To regulate spleen and stomach disharmony, dietary therapy is generally adopted. You can cook a lot of hawthorn rice porridge, Chinese yam and coix seed porridge, hawthorn coix seed porridge, and white bean lean meat porridge for the baby. These are all types of porridge that promote digestion and strengthen the spleen, and they are easy to digest. Due to the child's anorexia, you can appropriately give them probiotics to help adjust the balance of gut microbiota.