Parents need to detect symptoms of baby's sleepiness early!

Experts say that there are certain standards for the baby's sleep time. If it exceeds this range, the baby may suffer from a certain disease. If the baby is sleepy under non-specific circumstances, he or she is very likely to suffer from narcolepsy, which will affect the baby's digestive function, reduce immunity, and make the baby more susceptible to respiratory diseases.

1. Symptoms of baby's sleepiness

Generally, a one-month-old newborn baby sleeps 20-22 hours a day; a two-month-old baby sleeps about 18 hours a day; a three-month-old baby usually sleeps about 16 hours; after six months old, babies usually sleep 12-14 hours; and the sleep time will gradually decrease after that. If a baby's sleep time exceeds the above standards, he or she is more likely to suffer from drowsiness. In addition to sleeping too long, there are other symptoms of sleepiness in babies:

Of course, if a baby has symptoms of drowsiness, it does not necessarily mean that he is suffering from drowsiness. It may also be caused by other diseases. For example, babies with visual problems may have sleep problems. Many babies with colds and fevers will also experience drowsiness. In addition, it is not surprising that they experience drowsiness when taking cold and allergy medicines (which have side effects). Babies may also have symptoms of drowsiness because they have serious diseases, such as viral encephalitis or Japanese encephalitis.

2. Harm of baby's sleepiness

1. Affect digestive function

If a young child sleeps too much and does not eat or drink for a long time, it can easily cause excessive contraction of the stomach and intestines, hunger-related peristalsis of the stomach and intestines, disrupting the secretion of gastric juice and affecting digestive function.

2. Reduced immune function

If young children sleep too long, it will reverse their normal biological clock and cause biological clock confusion. The human physiological structure determines that one should go to bed early and get up early. Therefore, sleeping too much every day for a long time will disrupt the physiological functions, causing the child's body resistance to weaken and immunity to decrease.

3. Susceptible to respiratory diseases

Keeping the doors and windows of the bedroom closed for a long time will cause the air to become polluted. Even if the windows are half-open, some air will not circulate. The unclean air contains a large amount of bacteria, viruses, carbon dioxide and dust, which will affect the respiratory disease resistance of young children. Young children who are chronically sleepy usually exercise less, and coupled with the polluted air in the bedroom, they are prone to catching colds frequently, with symptoms such as headaches, fever, coughs and runny noses.