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Mo Ming Hua
Pediatrics
About me
Pediatric director, currently serving as the deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Integrative Pediatrics.
Proficient in diseases
Traditional Chinese medicine is good at treating children's repeated respiratory infections, coughs, chlamydia infections, pneumonia, asthma, fever, enuresis, anorexia, multiple tic disorder, tic disorder, pediatric sweat syndrome, and others. It excels in treating children's respiratory, digestive, urinary, and difficult diseases with a combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, achieving significant clinical efficacy.
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What is the matter with children feeling unwell in the stomach when they have a cold?
In Chinese medicine, common colds in children are categorized as cold-induced, heat-induced, damp-heat, and epidemic colds. Within the context of colds, complications often arise in three forms: phlegm retention, food retention, and particularly startle retention. Colds in children that result in difficulty with food retention are caused by damage due to food retention. This is because children inherently have a weak spleen that cannot hold substances well; they lack self-restraint in eating and drinking. After being affected by external pathogenic factors, the spleen fails to transport and transform food effectively, leading to stagnation in the middle burner, impeding the flow of vital energy, and causing symptoms such as abdominal distension, pain, loss of appetite, and even vomiting.
If rickets is not treated, what will be the impact?
Rickets, if untreated, mainly involves changes in skeletal deformities and motor function in children. Rickets is primarily caused by a deficiency in vitamin D, which is essential for promoting the absorption of calcium. A deficiency in vitamin D leads to reduced calcium absorption. Lower calcium absorption results in a calcium deficiency in the body, which in turn causes changes in the bones. In the early stages of vitamin D deficiency, the main symptoms are increased neural excitability, which may manifest as startle reactions, irritability, restlessness, and excessive sweating. During the active phase, symptoms of increased nervous system excitability become more pronounced, mainly presenting as skeletal deformities. What aspects do these skeletal deformities affect? One is the softening of the skull, pigeon chest, funnel chest, and changes resembling wristbands and anklets. If the condition worsens further, it can present as X-shaped legs, O-shaped legs, and spinal deformities. Thus, if rickets progresses, it can lead to skeletal deformities and impairments in motor functions, among other issues.
The difference between rickets and pigeon chest.
The difference between rickets and pigeon chest: Pigeon chest is a symptom of rickets; rickets is mainly caused by a lack of vitamin D and calcium, leading to disorders in calcium and phosphorus metabolism. During the acute phase of rickets, when skeletal changes occur, this condition can easily cause deformities in the patient's chest. The pigeon chest deformity is one of the symptoms of rickets. That is to say, pigeon chest is a symptom of rickets, not a disease itself.