What causes children to sweat?

Children are an important part of a family. Their health and safety are always on the minds of their parents. When a child feels unwell, parents feel very anxious and worried. Since children's physical development is not yet complete, in many cases some phenomena that occur in children are normal. Parents do not need to worry too much, as long as they treat them correctly.

What causes children to sweat?

Due to physical weakness

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that children's excessive sweating is related to weak constitution. When a child is weak, the autonomic nervous function is unstable, which causes the opening and closing of the skin sweat pores to become disordered, making it impossible to retain sweat, so sweat easily flows out. It often manifests as sweating in patches on the head, chest, and back during daytime activities or after falling asleep at night. Parents should pay attention to adjusting their diet, promoting children's appetite, and increasing their intake of protein, fat and sugar. If necessary, traditional Chinese medicine can be used to regulate spleen and stomach disharmony.

Caused by calcium deficiency

Children's sweating may also be caused by calcium deficiency. Calcium deficiency usually manifests itself in children crying, night sweats, bald spots on the back of the head, square head, etc. Parents can take their children to the hospital to test trace elements to see if the children are calcium deficient and correct it as soon as possible to avoid affecting their growth and development.

Certain diseases can also cause sweating

Certain diseases can also cause children to sweat, and parents need to learn to distinguish them. For example, if a child suffers from tuberculosis, rickets, infectious diseases, etc., he or she will have severe night sweats. If you observe carefully, you will find that children with tuberculosis will also have symptoms such as fever, cough, general fatigue, and weight loss; infectious diseases can also cause poisoning reactions such as fever, poor spirits, and poor appetite.

In addition, judging from the time of sweating, sweating all night is common in tuberculosis and other chronic wasting diseases; abnormal sweating in the first half of the night is more common in active rickets; sweating on an empty stomach in the morning is mostly caused by sympathetic nerve excitement caused by hypoglycemia.

Tips:

Children usually sweat the most when they first fall asleep. Parents can wait until their children fall asleep and then remove the blankets from them. If you notice your child sweating a lot, use a soft towel to wipe the sweat off the hair, face, and body, and help your child turn sideways to prevent sweat from accumulating under the body. Close the windows to prevent convection wind from blowing directly on your child and catching a cold.

In addition, in order to enhance children's physical fitness on a daily basis, in addition to supplementing nutrition, children should also be encouraged to do more outdoor sports, such as running, playing ball, climbing, etc. As the amount of exercise increases, the body's internal regulatory ability will be fully exerted, so that various functions can return to normal and change the symptoms of children's sweating.

How to treat children's sweating

Replenish water and salt

When children sweat a lot, they lose a lot of water and salt. They must replenish water in time and drink more warm water to avoid dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. Parents can also give their children some light salt water on a daily basis to replenish the salt lost in the body. They can also drink more freshly squeezed fruit juices and vegetable soups to supplement vitamins.

Have a plan to exercise

Children who often suffer from night sweats should undergo planned physical exercise and ensure more than half an hour of outdoor exercise every day, such as playing football, running, swimming, cycling, climbing, etc. As the amount of exercise increases, the body's internal regulatory ability will be fully exerted, so that various functions can return to normal and the symptoms of night sweats in children can be changed. You can also take more sunbaths, cold water baths, etc. to strengthen your physical fitness and improve your adaptability.

Diet

When children have spontaneous sweating, it is necessary to strengthen their nutrition, eat a balanced diet, combine meat and vegetables, and eat both coarse and fine foods. It is also necessary to correct the child's picky eating and anorexia habits in order to strengthen his or her physical fitness. The following dietary treatments may also be used as reference:

1. Mutton, Astragalus and Longan Soup

Ingredients: 90 grams of mutton, 15 grams of astragalus, 10 grams of longan meat, 15 grams of yam, and appropriate amounts of salt and sesame oil.

Preparation method: Put mutton, yam, longan meat and astragalus into a pot, add water and bring to a boil, then simmer over low heat until the mutton is cooked and the soup is thick. Pick out the astragalus, add salt and sesame oil to season. Take once a day, for 15 days as a course of treatment.

Efficacy: Nourishes the spleen and kidneys, replenishes qi and raises yang, consolidates the exterior and stops sweating, calms the mind and soothes the nerves. Suitable for children with spontaneous sweating.

2. Wheat, Dates and Glutinous Rice Porridge

Ingredients: 60 grams of wheat, 15 grams of red dates, and 15 grams of glutinous rice.

Method: Wash the wheat, red dates and glutinous rice separately, put them into the pot together, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until it becomes porridge. Take once a day for 5 to 7 days.

Efficacy: Nourishes the spleen and stomach, reduces sweating and calms the mind. Suitable for symptoms such as physical weakness and spontaneous sweating.