Why are the baby's palms and soles hot and sweaty?

Recently, many parents have discussed that their babies always sweat for no reason, especially on the palms and soles of their feet. Many parents think that this is because the babies are dressed too much and are too hot, but is this true? In order to improve this symptom of their baby, many parents do not let their baby dress in so many clothes, but the result is that their baby still sweats. Some even catch a cold due to the cold. It can be seen that sweating on the palms and soles of the feet is not caused by wearing too much hot clothes. So why do babies' palms and soles of the feet become hot and sweaty?

Infants have a high metabolism and are active, so some of them cannot rest even after going to bed at night, so they may sweat on their heads after falling asleep. The so-called physiological hyperhidrosis refers to sweating during sleep when the child is well-developed, healthy, and has no disease. Parents are often accustomed to deciding the most suitable environmental temperature for their children based on their subjective feelings, and like to cover their babies with more blankets and keep them tightly covered. Because children's brain and nervous system are not yet fully developed and they are in the growth and development period, their body metabolism is very active. Coupled with the stimulation of overheating, they can only adjust their normal body temperature by sweating to evaporate the heat in the body.

Pathological sweating occurs when the child is in a quiet state, such as sweating caused by rickets, which manifests as obvious sweating on the child's head in the first half of the night after falling asleep. Because the pillow is stimulated by sweat, babies always shake their heads and rub against the pillow when they sleep, resulting in sparse hair on the pillow and falling out, forming a typical ring-shaped hair loss on the pillow, which is medically called "baldness on the pillow". It is an early manifestation of rickets in infants. As long as vitamin D and calcium are supplemented in time, rickets can be controlled and sweating will stop by itself.

The above article introduces why the baby's palms and soles are hot and sweaty. We can see from it that this situation may be a physiological disease or a pathological disease. Therefore, once this situation occurs, parents should take the baby to the hospital for diagnosis in time to avoid unnecessary trouble. Another thing is to take your baby to sunny places often to play and improve his or her immunity.