Guangzhou Daily News (all-media reporter Wu Wanhong correspondent Ye Qina, Li Wen) During the spring rains and uncertain times, some special "small patients" will report to the pediatric clinic.

Recently, a mother went to the outpatient clinic for help, "The child is 8 years old, why is it easy to wet the bed in the rainy season?" Deng Jian, director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pediatrics at the Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, and Ye Qina, the attending physician, explained their doubts and shared their coup.

  Why is it easy to wet the bed on rainy days?

  "In the rainy season in spring, there will be a little more children going to the doctor for enuresis than usual." Ye Qina, an attending physician in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pediatrics at the Municipal Women's and Children's Medical Center, said that the peak of enuresis visits is also in winter.

  Ye Qina explained that the frequency of enuresis increases in cold winters and wet and rainy days. First, it may be because the weather is cold, and the child does not want to get up, so he wets the bed. Second, listening to the sound of rain when sleeping, like the sound of urination, also has a psychological suggestion.

In addition, drinking too much water before going to bed, being frightened, playing too tired before going to bed, resulting in too deep sleep, not easy to wake up, etc., may lead to enuresis.

In cloudy and rainy days, due to the reduction of activities, sweating is also less, the frequency of urination increases, and the probability of enuresis also increases; but from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, children are "deficiency-cold". , Xiayuan deficient cold, bladder loss, and enuresis may also occur.

  Ye Qina introduced that from the perspective of Western medicine, infantile enuresis refers to that children over 5 years old cannot wake up from sleep, but have repeated unconscious urination behavior, more than a certain number of times a week, and lasted for at least 3 months.

  There are many causes of enuresis in children, mainly including: genetic factors; sleep-wake-related factors: clinically, enuresis children are not easily awakened after falling asleep, and enuresis is also related to immature brain function development and incomplete cortical central control function; Disruption of the circadian rhythm of antidiuretic hormone (ADH) secretion, resulting in increased nocturnal urine output that exceeds capacity and enuresis; poor bladder function, but can be relieved with age.

In addition, diseases such as recessive spina bifida, zinc deficiency, tonsil or adenoid hypertrophy, urethral malformation, urinary tract infection, diabetes and epilepsy can also cause secondary enuresis.

  Western medicine treats enuresis, mostly using desmopressin, anticholinergic drugs, enuresis alarms and behavioral therapy.

  How does Chinese medicine regulate baby's bedwetting?

  According to Deng Jian, director of the Pediatric Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the center, from the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, enuresis in children is mostly due to congenital deficiency of kidney qi and deficiency of the lower yuan, which leads to bladder closure and loss of function, and can not restrain the waterway; Inability to transport and transform water and dampness, bladder missed appointment, resulting in enuresis; some children due to inflammation of the heart, injuring the kidney water, resulting in more night dreams, difficult to wake up, so urination is self-sufficient; there are also rare cases, due to the liver meridian damp-heat , under the pressure of the bladder, due to unfavorable bladder restraint.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidney is in the heart of fear. When some children are frightened, they are most likely to injure the kidney qi. When the function of holding urine is insufficient, they will also easily wet the bed.

  Daily conditioning of children's bedwetting

  In daily life, you should go to bed early and get up early to ensure adequate sleep, try not to drink water before going to bed, and develop the habit of urinating before going to bed; insist on moderate-intensity exercise for about 20 to 30 minutes every day, and choose to skip rope indoors, jump rope, or jump on rainy days. Broadcast gymnastics, etc.

Dietary conditioning can also be properly carried out under the guidance of a Chinese physician:

  Children with cold weather who like to wet the bed, weak physical constitution, easy fatigue, dull complexion, and chills should eat more kidney-tonifying foods, such as walnuts, chestnuts, longan, gorgon, lotus seeds, black beans, pork loin, scallops, oysters, Shrimp, leeks, tea tree mushrooms, etc.

  Recommendation: Tea Tree Mushroom Pork Ribs Soup

  100 grams of pork ribs, 10 grams of dried tea tree mushrooms.

Ribs cut into pieces, flying water.

Wash the tea tree mushrooms, add an appropriate amount of water to the ingredients and boil over high heat, simmer for 1.5 hours, and season with salt.

  Children who wet the bed at night, if they still have frequent urination during the day, less food intake and poor appetite, and sweating more easily when they move, they can eat more foods that strengthen the spleen and lungs, such as poria, yam, white lentils, pumpkin, mushrooms, and cordyceps. Flowers, pigeons, partridges, crocodile meat, cherries, red dates, etc.

  Recommendation: Cordyceps Flower Soup

  80 grams of lean meat, 10 grams of Cordyceps flower, 1 candied date.

Wash the lean meat and cut it into pieces; wash the cordyceps flowers and candied dates, soak in water for 30 minutes, add an appropriate amount of water to the ingredients, boil over high heat, simmer for 1 hour, and season with salt.

  Nocturnal enuresis with restless sleep, frequent dreams, irritability, hyperactivity, poor memory, fear of heat, and thin body should eat more foods that are soothing, such as raw ground, cooked ground, light bamboo leaves, mangosteen, sugar cane, Rambutan, fenugreek, lotus root, lily, black-bone chicken, duck, water fish, etc.

  Recommended: lily ginseng lean meat soup

  10 grams of ginseng, 10 grams of lily, 80 grams of lean meat, 1 candied date.

After washing the ingredients, put them into a pot together, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer for 1 hour, then add an appropriate amount of salt.

  Enuresis during sleep, small and yellow urine, smelly fishy, ​​usually irritable and irritable, disturbed sleep at night, accompanied by dream language or grinding teeth Kiwi fruit, water chestnuts, watercress, bitter wheat vegetables, pork, jellyfish, squid, etc.

  Recommendation: Chicken Bone Grass Lean Meat Soup

  80 grams of lean meat, 5 grams of chicken bone grass, 1 piece of ginger, 1 candied date.

After washing all the ingredients, put them in a pot together, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer for 1 hour, add salt to taste.