Children's hands and feet sweat

Some children often sweat a lot during sleep. Parents will find that their hands and feet are particularly sweaty. This may be related to the child's sleeping environment. If the child feels particularly hot during sleep, the parts that are most likely to sweat are the hands and feet. It may also be that the child has more sweat glands in his body. So why do children sweat a lot on their hands and feet?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that children usually sweat too much, which is related to the physiological and pathological characteristics of children's "immature yin and yang, loose pores, easy to be deficient or excessive, easy to be cold or hot". It is common in clinical practice. Although it is not a serious illness, it should not be ignored because it is mild. This is because traditional Chinese medicine believes that blood and sweat have the same origin. Excessive sweating can easily lead to imbalance of yin and yang, affecting growth and development. In addition, if children sweat too much and fail to wipe it off in time, they are easily attacked by wind and cold, which becomes a common cause of respiratory diseases, so it should be taken seriously.

Clinically, it is mostly divided into spontaneous sweating and night sweats. However, since children's spontaneous sweating includes daytime sweating, profuse sweating after activities and excessive sweating after falling asleep at night, there is no need to emphasize the distinction between spontaneous sweating and night sweats during treatment.

Several common cases of excessive sweating in children:

1Abnormal sweating on the head, neck, chest and back

These children are likely to have congenital deficiencies and weak lung defense functions. Especially after activities, the patient is usually weak, easily catches cold, and has a sallow or pale complexion;

2Sweating all over the body and feeling hot in the hands, feet and heart

Most of these children suffer from insufficient Qi and Yin, sweat a lot but their bodies are not warm, their faces are usually yellow or pale and lack luster, they have dark eye bags, and they often have cold hands and feet. Most of them come from lifestyle habits. Parents like to give their children large amounts of herbal tea to clear away heat and detoxify, or due to repeated respiratory tract infections, they use antibiotics for a long time. In addition, the air-conditioning environment is too low and they are used to drinking cold drinks, which will deplete Qi and Yin and cause imbalance in the Ying and Wei systems.

3. Sweating all over the body and sweating like oil

Most of these children have acquired spleen and stomach damage, with damp heat stagnation in the middle-jiao spleen and stomach. They are usually obese and have thick and greasy tongue coating. They prefer sweet, greasy and cool food, and are fond of eating meat and fried foods. They have an uncontrolled diet and indigestion that damages the spleen and stomach, causing damp heat.