Massage therapy Clinical analysis of 74 cases of anorexia in children.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 10 Massage therapy Clinical analysis of 74 cases of anorexia in children Abstract infantile anorexia is a common chronic pediatric disorders of appetite. In order to see the children eat, not too long, loss of appetite, and even refuse to eat as the main performance. More common in urban children. With China’s one-child increase in the number, in recent years, the disease on the rise. And the difficulties in pediatric medicine, fear of injections, Chinese medicine uses massage, massage treatments, results were satisfactory. Keywords: anorexia / TCM therapy; manipulation; medicine, Chinese traditional; children Anorexia is defined as children see food not too long period of time, loss of appetite, and even refuse to eat of the disease. Chinese medicine called “torpid intake.” Anorexia is often often occurred in the course of other diseases, or after, but this article refers to the theory of anorexia in children without exogenous, internal injuries and other diseases, the emergence of do not want to diet. The author since 2004, using massage therapy for 74 cases of this disease and achieved better effect. Are reported below. A clinical data 1.1 General information on 74 patients in this group were hospital outpatients, 24 patients were male and female 50 cases; aged 6 months to 1 year of age in 10 cases, 2 ~ 3 years old in 12 cases, 4 to 7 years old in 52 cases; duration “1 weeks in 12 cases, “half of 38 cases,” 3 months in 13 cases, “half of 11 cases. Laboratory tests: Hb 100 g / L following 11 cases, 34 cases of zinc deficiency, calcium deficiency in 19 cases, 17 cases with low IgA immunoglobulins, IgM low in 6 cases. During treatment, out of all Chinese and Western medicine. 1.2 TCM diagnostic criteria (1) Long-term loss of appetite and no other diseases; (2) looking Shaohua, emaciation, but the spirit is still good, no ventral expansion; (3) improper feeding history, such as the consumption o