Why does a child sweat while sleeping?

Some parents sometimes find that their children sweat while sleeping. This phenomenon may indicate that the child’s constitution is weak. Children with weak constitutions or calcium deficiency can supplement their nutrition appropriately and do some exercise in their daily life, which will help their physical constitution.

1. Caused by weak constitution

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.

2. 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.

3. 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.