What to do if your child grinds his teeth while sleeping at night

In fact, families with children will have discovered this problem, that is, children often suddenly grind their teeth when they are sleeping at night, and sometimes the sound of teeth grinding is so loud that it can disturb people's sleep. So have parents ever thought about why children grind their teeth like this? What is the reason? How to treat it? What should you do when your child grinds his teeth while sleeping in the middle of the night?

For bruxism at night, prevention and treatment can be carried out according to the cause. If you have roundworms or pinworms, you should deworm them in time. The diet should be adjusted reasonably, with a combination of coarse and fine grains, meat and vegetables to prevent malnutrition in children. Children should also be taught not to be partial or picky eaters, and not to eat too much at dinner to avoid gastrointestinal discomfort. Children with rickets should be treated with vitamin D and calcium supplements.

At the same time, let children get appropriate sunbathing. Parents should create a comfortable, harmonious and happy family environment for their children, eliminate various adverse psychological factors, and cooperate with psychological treatment. If you have malocclusion, please ask a dentist to treat it. In addition, acupuncture treatment also has a certain effect. You can also take sedatives before going to bed to reduce or eliminate the excitability of the nervous system and reduce or prevent the occurrence of nocturnal bruxism.

If a child grinds his teeth in the middle of the night, it is actually an indirect manifestation of certain physical problems. In fact, many large and small diseases in our body are like this. For example, some people will have a sore throat before a cold since childhood, and some people will have diarrhea before a stomachache. These are all causally related and cannot be ignored.