Nasal discharge: white (like egg white)

Tongue coating: thin, white in color, and the entire tongue is light red

Face: Pale, bloodless, lips a bit white

Sweat: Little or no sweating

Fingerprint color: red

Babies with cold and fever will be particularly afraid of the cold and like to curl up.

Nose: yellow (like the color of thick phlegm)

Tongue coating: yellow, thick layer on the tongue

Face: Small cheeks slightly red

Sweat: Slightly sweating

Fingerprint color: purple

Babies with wind-heat fever will have a dry and sore throat, constantly asking for water, and a high fever, usually above 39°C.

Nose: Not very runny

Tongue coating: The entire tongue is red and the tongue coating is thin

Face: red, cheeks like apples

Sweat: Night sweats, that is, sweating a lot after falling asleep

Fingerprint color: lavender

Babies with yin deficiency and internal heat have a flushed face and lips that are redder than normal babies, and they always have a fever in the middle of the night.

Nose: Not very runny

Tongue coating: yellow with signs of dryness and cracks

Face: red, but it is different from the flush caused by yin deficiency and internal heat, but the redness caused by high fever

Sweat: normal sweating

Fingerprint color: reddish purple

Babies with excessive heat in the lungs and stomach and fever will have bad breath due to the accumulation of food, and they especially don’t like to eat.

Ingredients: 10g ginger, 4 red dates, 30g brown sugar.

Method: Wash, remove the cores of the red dates, and tear them into pieces; put the ginger and red dates in a pot under cold water, cook over high heat for 10 minutes, then turn to low heat and add brown sugar. Once the brown sugar melts, serve out.

Function: expel cold and warm stomach

Applicable syndrome types: wind chill and fever

Ingredients: 150g black beans, 150g mung beans, 150g adzuki beans, 60g licorice, appropriate amount of sugar.

Method: Soak the beans in cold water for 10-15 minutes and rinse. Pour mung beans, black beans and red beans into the pot respectively, bring to a boil over high heat, add licorice after boiling, reduce to low heat and continue to cook into porridge. The other method is to wash the three types of beans and soak them until they swell, then mix and grind them into a slurry, add an appropriate amount of water to boil, and season with sugar.

Function: Promoting blood circulation and detoxifying

Applicable syndrome type: wind-heat fever

Note: Babies without obvious fever, sore throat and other symptoms and babies with spleen and stomach deficiency should not drink it often (it is recommended to consult a traditional Chinese medicine doctor)

Ingredients: 15g wolfberry, 400g lotus seeds, 100g japonica rice.

Method: Soak wolfberry seeds and lotus seeds in 2L of water for 20 minutes, then boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat for 20 minutes, remove the residue and get the soup. Boil the soup and japonica rice together to make porridge.

Function: nourishing yin and reducing fire

Applicable syndrome type: Fever caused by yin deficiency and internal heat

Ingredients: 1 bitter melon, 400g pork bones, 150g soybeans, 3-4 jujubes.

Method: Soak the soybeans in cold water for 20 minutes, wash and cut the bitter melon into pieces and set aside, wash and remove the cores of the jujubes and set aside, blanch the pork bones and set aside; add 1L of water to the pot and bring to a boil, add the pork bones and soybeans, simmer over high heat for 30 minutes, turn Add bitter melon and red dates over low heat and simmer for 15 minutes.

Function: cooling, clearing heat and laxative

Applicable syndrome type: Fever caused by excess heat in the lungs and stomach