Why does my child sweat profusely? Beware of calcium deficiency factors!

Parents, please pay attention. If you find your child sweating, you must pay close attention to it. This may be a sign of your child's physical weakness, or it may be due to your child's calcium deficiency. Of course, it may also be a factor of certain diseases, so don't take it lightly.

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.

4. How to treat children's sweating

1. 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.

2. Exercise in a planned way

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.

3. Diet adjustment

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.