Baby thin, don't like to eat, pale complexion, often in poor spirits, often make parents worry, alert, this is actually pediatric iron deficiency anemia. What should we do about pediatric iron deficiency anemia? It often makes parents very worried. Iron supplements, as a routine therapy, can cause a decrease in appetite in children due to gastrointestinal stimulation, which makes many parents reluctant to choose. Today, let's take a look at a non-injection and non-medication spinal manipulation therapy together!
Pediatric iron deficiency anemia has a high incidence of nutritional onset, and it is most common in children under two years old because infants and young children in this stage are prone to illness due to improper feeding, resulting in poor appetite and inadequate intake of hematopoietic nutrients, which is an important cause of anemia. In clinical practice, mild to moderate anemia is more common, so improving diet and nutrition can prevent and treat this disease.
Pediatric nutritional iron deficiency anemia belongs to the traditional Chinese medicine "Gan syndrome", which refers to a disease characterized by emaciation and insufficient qi, blood, body fluids. It is mainly caused by factors such as unreasonable diet structure, poor eating habits, overeating, picky eating, aversion to food, and excessive nutrition, which damage the spleen and stomach. Children's organs are tender, and their spleens are often deficient and vulnerable to injury. If the spleen and stomach are damaged, the gastrointestinal digestion and absorption function will be hindered, leading to the dysfunction of the middle energizer, deficiency of qi and blood, inability to transport water and grains to the whole body, and inability to maintain normal growth and development of children. The pathology is in the spleen and stomach, with weak qi and blood deficiency, resulting in symptoms of pale complexion, loss of appetite, fatigue, pale lips and tongue, weak pulse, and other symptoms of blood deficiency.
Iron preparations have always been the first choice for the treatment of pediatric nutritional iron deficiency anemia. However, due to improper use by children and the stimulation of the gastrointestinal tract resulting in decreased appetite, they are not suitable for long-term use and cannot be widely used in clinical practice. Therefore, simply improving diet and supplementing iron preparations cannot control the problem of relapse after discontinuation of medication.
Traditional Chinese medicine has long recorded the theories of "the spleen is the source of blood production" and "blood nourishes the five zang organs and six fu organs". The treatment of nutritional iron deficiency anemia generally uses blood-tonifying methods, such as Angelica Blood-Tonifying Decoction (Angelica, Astragalus), Four Substances Decoction (Angelica, Paeonia, Rehmannia, Chuanxiong), etc. If there is spleen deficiency with diarrhea, Sijunzi Decoction (Ginseng, Poria, Atractylodes, Licorice) is used to invigorate the spleen.
Spinal manipulation therapy is one of the unique therapies in traditional Chinese medicine and is part of massage. It is traditionally used to treat pediatric malnutrition, so it is also called "pinching malnutrition". The method involves using techniques such as pushing, grasping, lifting, pressing, kneading, rubbing, shaking, and twisting on the patient's back along the Du meridian and its bilateral points, which are connected to the Conception and Governor vessels. Therefore, it can regulate qi and blood, harmonize yin and yang, promote meridian circulation, and coordinate the five zang organs and six fu organs. This method is an important complementary therapy for various internal injuries.
The treatment of nutritional anemia and other nutritional diseases by spinal manipulation therapy lies in its ability to improve the spleen's function in qi, blood, and biochemical production. Spinal manipulation therapy is used to invigorate the spleen and blood. It has certain effects on children with anemia, rickets, aversion to food, and susceptibility to digestive tract infections.
Spinal manipulation therapy does not directly supplement iron, but promotes the supply of hematopoietic nutrients and the establishment of good eating habits. Its advantages are simple technique, easy promotion, non-invasive therapy, no side effects, and can be applied for a long time in clinical and home settings. It plays an early preventive and therapeutic role in mild to moderate nutritional iron deficiency anemia, which is commonly seen in clinical practice.
According to a large amount of practical evidence, spinal manipulation therapy is effective in treating pediatric nutritional iron deficiency anemia. The combination of spleen-invigorating and qi-tonifying methods with spinal manipulation therapy can achieve better results. Parents who are afraid of drug side effects should try this safe and effective method as soon as possible!
