What causes swollen eyelids in children?

Whether a child has adequate nutrition can be shown from the child's condition, and it can also be seen that some children have irregular schedules. Some children will have swollen eyes after getting up the next day. What is the reason for the swollen eyelids of children? There are many reasons for this situation. It is not only kidney disease that can cause this condition in children. Parents can read the following content to find out more.

Swollen eyelids are one of the early signs of kidney disease in children, but parents do not need to panic when their children have swollen eyes, because kidney disease is not the only reason for children's swollen eyelids.

1. Let's take a look at the specific reasons for children's swollen eyelids:

1. Poor sleep. For example, if you stay up late at night (watching TV, etc.), you will have less sleep time, and your eyes will be swollen when you get up in the morning. Some people will also have painful and swollen eyes. For another example, some people are nervous and can't sleep well at night, and they may also have swollen eyelids when they get up in the morning.

2. It is related to the sleeping posture. For example, some children occasionally do not use pillows, and their eyelids may swell after sleeping for a night. However, some children never use pillows when sleeping, and their eyes will not swell. This may be related to personal habits.

3. It is related to drinking water. Some children drink a lot of water before going to bed, so they will have swollen eyes in the morning, which will disappear during the day.

The above eyelid swelling is normal, so if it is clearly caused by these reasons, don't worry. Eyelid swelling related to diseases mainly includes: skin disease, heart and kidney dysfunction, and angioedema.

5. Children's kidney disease causes swollen eyelids.

After excluding other causes of eyelid swelling other than childhood kidney disease, the edema may be caused by childhood kidney disease. Since childhood kidney disease is a chronic disease (except acute nephritis), there may be no obvious symptoms that make the patient very uncomfortable at the beginning of the disease. Therefore, after getting up in the morning, different degrees of eyelid edema is often an early symptom of kidney disease.

If the child has a good night's rest and none of the non-renal reasons mentioned above cause the swollen eyelids, then parents should take the child to the hospital for relevant examinations to confirm whether it is pediatric kidney disease.