The reason why children clench their teeth when sleeping at night

Children will encounter many problems as they grow up. As parents, we seem to worry every day whether our children are hungry or malnourished! In short, children before the age of 12 are always worrying. There are some children who are always restless when they sleep at night. Sometimes they move around or grind their teeth while sleeping. In short, they keep making small movements, which makes their parents anxious. So what is the reason why children clench their teeth when they sleep at night?

1) Excessive mental excitement and tension

Playing too much before going to bed, being too excited or tired, being frightened, restless and anxious, or being stressed out during studies can cause the excitation and inhibition processes of the cerebral cortex to become unbalanced, inducing temporary irregular spasms or contractions of the chewing muscles, resulting in nocturnal bruxism.

2) Intestinal parasitic diseases

Ascaris likes to move around in the intestines after the child falls asleep and secrete a variety of toxins. Toxins stimulate the intestines, speed up intestinal peristalsis, cause indigestion, pain around the navel, and restless sleep; if toxins stimulate the nerves, causing nerve excitement, it can lead to teeth grinding. Pinworms also secrete toxins and cause anal itching, affecting children's sleep and causing teeth grinding sounds.

3) Digestive dysfunction

For example, if you eat too much before going to bed, a large amount of food fills the stomach and intestines and stimulates the digestive tract. The nerves transmit these stimuli to the brain, making the brain cells that manage digestion excited, and through reflex action, causing teeth grinding.

4) Unbalanced nutrition

Some children are picky eaters, especially those who don't like to eat vegetables, which leads to nutritional imbalance and deficiency of calcium, phosphorus, various vitamins and trace elements, causing involuntary contraction of the facial chewing muscles at night, and the teeth grind back and forth.

5) Others

Poor tooth development during the tooth replacement period can cause dental occlusion disorders, chronic periodontitis, psychomotor epilepsy, hysteria, or eating in dreams, etc. can all cause nocturnal bruxism.

It is very normal for children to be active. Which child is not naughty? Therefore, parents should not worry too much. But what is the reason why children clench their teeth when they sleep at night? This can be a big or small matter. Today I will introduce these five situations. Parents must judge their children based on the circumstances. In fact, most of them are due to malnutrition in children. Therefore, parents must pay attention to their children's balanced diet.