Question
A 13-month-old girl vomited after eating yesterday and had watery stool. She had a fever of 38.8 degrees Celsius in the early morning today, which dropped to 37.8 degrees Celsius at noon. How should she be treated? Thank you!
Answer
Hello, here are the Chinese medicine prescriptions for treating vomiting and diarrhea in children: The diarrhea prescription consists of the following ingredients:
- Qiang Xue (Atractylodes macrocephala)
- Chen Pi (Citrus reticulata)
- Sha She (Atractylodes lancea)
- Fa Hua (Pinellia ternata)
- Bo Jing (Zingiber officinale)
- Gui Pi (Punica granatum peel)
- Shan Zha (Crataegus pinnatifida)
- Che Qian Zi (Acorus gramineus)
- Sha Mi (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) The dosage needs to be adjusted according to age. Symptoms can be adjusted as follows:
- With fever: add Ho Xiang (Agastache rugosa) and Fan Wen (Saposhnikovia divaricata)
- With abdominal distension: add Xiang Fu (Cyperus rotundus) and Shen Qu (Fructus jujubae)
- With diarrhea upon eating, undigested food, and prolonged illness: add Rou Gui (Cinnamomum cassia)
- With vomiting: add Ho Xiang (Agastache rugosa), Shan Ren (Zingiber officinale), and Sheng Jiang (Zingiber officinale rhizome). One dose per day, boiled in water, and taken in small amounts several times. If dehydration symptoms occur, oral rehydration solutions should be given to correct fluid, electrolyte imbalance, and acidosis should be corrected as necessary. Chinese medicine believes that children’s spleen is often insufficient, and their digestive function is weak. Eating too much cold fruit is easy to damage the stomach and intestines, leading to improper transmission and diarrhea. It is more common in the autumn and winter seasons, with cold dampness being more prevalent. Treatment should focus on regulating the digestive system, dispelling cold and transforming dampness. The combination of various herbs in the diarrhea prescription aims to strengthen the spleen, dry dampness, warm the middle energizer, dispel coldness, and stop diarrhea.