Question

What foods can help prevent children’s diarrhea during the autumn and winter season?

Answer

Children’s diarrhea is usually caused by extraintestinal infections, a group of symptoms characterized primarily by diarrhea caused by various pathogens and factors. According to clinical statistics in Chinese medicine, childhood diarrhea is the second most common disease after respiratory infections. To prevent children’s diarrhea during the autumn and winter, parents can prepare some soups or porridge with hawthorn, malt, sprouted grains, adzuki beans, yam, duck kidney, and other foods that help regulate the spleen and stomach. Additionally, based on the pediatrician’s diagnosis, parents can add materials such as tangerine peel, astragalus, codonopsis, or miltose and Job’s tears to make soups or porridge to strengthen children’s spleen and stomach function and immunity, thereby effectively preventing the occurrence of diarrhea.