Ten-year-old child sweats when sleeping at night

Ten-year-old children will sweat when they sleep, so parents should pay more attention to this, because parents need to pay attention to their children's physical condition in the middle of the night. The reason why a ten-year-old child sweats at night may be due to night sweats, which is physiological night sweats. Because children's skin has more moisture and their metabolism is more active, they are prone to sweating.

What to do if your child sweats while sleeping at night

Some children often sweat while sleeping, and the sweat soaks their clothes and pillowcases. This phenomenon is called night sweats in traditional Chinese medicine. Many parents are worried about this and seek medical treatment everywhere, but to little effect.

In fact, night sweats in children are not necessarily pathological. Most of them are physiological. Because children's skin contains more moisture, has abundant capillaries, has an active metabolism, and their autonomic nervous system regulation function is not yet fully developed, they are prone to sweating when they are active. If children are too active before going to bed, it can increase the body's heat production, or shortly after eating, gastrointestinal motility increases, gastric juice secretion increases, and sweat gland secretion also increases accordingly. These can cause children to sweat more after sleeping, especially within 2 hours after sweating.

Pathological night sweats are more common in rickets, mainly in children under 3 years old, and are mainly manifested in sweating in the first half of the night, which is caused by low blood calcium. Night sweats in children with tuberculosis are characterized by sweating all night long. The children also have symptoms such as low fever, weight loss, no weight gain or weight loss, loss of appetite, and mood changes.

Once children are found to have night sweats, the first thing to do is to find out the cause in time and give appropriate treatment. Drug treatment is generally not recommended for physiological night sweats. Instead, it is recommended to adjust lifestyle and eliminate fever-causing factors in life. For example, children's activities should be appropriately restricted before going to bed, especially strenuous activities; they should not eat too much before going to bed, and should not be given large amounts of hot food and hot drinks before going to bed; the bedroom temperature should not be too high when sleeping, and children should not wear thick clothes to sleep; the amount of quilts should be increased or decreased as the temperature changes.

For children with pathological night sweats, treatment should be targeted at the cause. If night sweats are caused by calcium deficiency, appropriate supplements of calcium, vitamin D, etc. should be taken. Night sweats caused by tuberculosis should be treated with anti-tuberculosis treatment. When children have night sweats, they should dry their skin with a towel, change clothes, and bathe frequently. Children should be allowed to participate in outdoor exercise regularly to strengthen their physical fitness and improve their adaptability. Once their physical fitness improves, night sweats will stop.