| Objective:Infantile fever caused by improper diet refers to a series of symptoms, which caused by eating too much food. The children suffer injury due to diet, and food stop in middle Jiao in the stomach, which can not be digested, then they come into being heat. Weakness of the spleen and the stomach is the onset of fundamental. Overeating, eating raw, cold food or the food that hard to digest is the direct cause. The children’s body belong to Chun Yang. If Spleen Yang transport goes wrong, they extremely seldom produce heat. This study aims at observing the effect of the eight therapeutic methods of abdominal massage which created by Shao Ying professor in treating infantile fever caused by improper diet via clinical randomized controlled trial. To verify a better therapeutic schedule by comparing the clinical effect of the eight therapeutic methods of abdominal massage with the conventional massage treatment. By comparing the temperature of two groups before treatment and the temperature of 0.5 hours,1 hour,2 hours,6 hours,12 hours and 24 hours after the first treatment respectively and by comparing the number of stool 24 hours before and after the massage, it is aim to evaluate the clinical effectiveness and practicability of the eight therapeutic methods of abdominal massage and to analyse its clinical superiority compared with conventional massage. To provide a basis for new standard of clinical massage treatment in curing infantile fever caused by improper diet.Methods:This study collected 60 outpatients from professor Shao Ying of the first affiliated hospital of Guangzhou university of traditional Chinese medicine who met the diagnostic criteria and inclusion criteria ranged from September 2014 to September 2015. The patients were divided randomly into eight therapeutic methods of abdominal massage group (30 cases) and conventional massage group (30 cases) via table of random number. The eight therapeutic methods of abdominal massage group used eight therapeutic methods of abdominal massage. It includes rubbing abdomen, abdominal Yin and Yang, swing abdomen, copy the abdomen, take abdomen, move the abdominal, push the abdomen and knead umbilical and Gui Wei. Routine massage group used the methods take from "infantile massage Science" which edited by Liao Pindong:clear the lung and flat the liver for 1-3 minutes, clear the stomach for 1-3 minutes; and clear large intestine for 1-2 minutes, pinch knead the four Heng Wen for 10 times, pinch squeeze Ban Men 10 times, transport gossip for 1-2 minutes, back of the Liu Fu for 2-3 minutes, massage take Sha, push Tian Zhu bone, chiropractic for 3-20 times, abdominal operations, push Ji Men and rub Yong Quan for 1 minute. Age, gender, course of disease, temperature before treatment, temperature of 0.5 hours,1 hour,2 hours,6 hours,12 hours and 24 hours after the first treatment and the number of stool 24 hours before and after the massage of two groups were obtained during the research process.Results:30 cases in the eight therapeutic methods of abdominal massage group and 30 cases in conventional massage group finished the clinical trial finally. No cases shed.Both the eight therapeutic methods of abdominal massage group and conventional massage group were 30 cases. Between two groups, age, gender, course of disease, temperature and the number of stool were good balanced. There’s no statistically significant difference(p>0.05). The two groups were comparable.The total effective rate of these two groups were 93.33% and 83.33% respectively. Both methods can improve the fever. In 1 hours after the massage, the conventional massage group showed better result in improve the fever. Between 1 hours and two hours, the effect of two group is the same. However, the eight therapeutic methods of abdominal massage group showed better result in curative effect and in long-term efficacy after 2 hours(P<0.05). In terms of improved indigestion, the treatment of two groups all have work, but the eight therapeutic methods of abdominal massage group was better than conventional massage group (P<0.05).Conclusion:Both the eight therapeutic methods of abdominal massage and conventional massage show certain curative effect in infantile fever caused by improper diet. Conventional massage has a better short-term efficacy, however the eight therapeutic methods of abdominal massage shows better curative effect and more stable long-term efficacy. |