10. Pediatrics

Question 1

What patterns in children would cause abdominal pain?

Answer 1

Cold retention in ST/LI, Qi Stag in LI

Question 2

What patterns in children would cause vomiting of milk and colic?

Answer 2

Food retention (Accumulation Disorder/GAN Syndrome)

Question 3

What patterns in children would cause chronic earache?

Answer 3

Exterior Wind residual leading to Damp-Heat in the GB channel

Question 4

What patterns in children would cause chronic catarrh, runny/blocked nose, glue ear?

Answer 4

Exterior Wind residual leading to SP def. and Phlegm

Question 5

What patterns in children would cause disturbed sleep with loud crying babies?

Answer 5

Food retention and ST Heat

Question 6

What patterns in children would cause relatively quiet crying at night?

Answer 6

Possibly prenatal shock

Question 7

What patterns in older children would cause disturbed sleep?

Answer 7

LV Fire, ST Heat, Food retention

Question 8

What patterns in children after immunizations would cause skin rash, insomnia, temporary character change?

Answer 8

Latent Heat