What causes sleepiness in children?

Many parents may find that their children are sleepy and think that their children are not getting enough sleep. In fact, children's sleepiness is also a sign of unhealthy health. In reality, obese children are more likely to be sleepy. Children's sleepiness is a disease, but parents do not take it seriously and think it is normal. Below we will provide parents with some information about children's sleepiness and the causes of children's sleepiness. We hope that children's sleepiness can be taken seriously by parents, and that the following content will also be helpful to parents.

1. Phlegm-dampness obstructing the spleen: often seen in obese people, with symptoms such as chest tightness, poor appetite, uncomfortable bowel movements, nausea and vomiting due to excessive phlegm, heaviness, drowsiness, greasy white tongue coating, and a weak and slow pulse.

2. Insufficient spleen: fatigue, poor appetite, drowsiness after eating, laziness to speak, easy sweating, pale tongue with thin white coating, and weak pulse.

3. Liver depression and spleen deficiency: long-term worry and anxiety, listlessness, dizziness and drowsiness, discomfort in the flanks with frequent dreams, poor appetite, difficulty in defecation, thin white or slightly greasy tongue coating, and thin or astringent pulse.

4. Blood deficiency: Pale and dull complexion, poor appetite, listlessness, palpitations, shortness of breath, laziness to speak, dizziness, pale tongue with a thin white coating, and a deep, thready and weak pulse.

5. Dampness and turbidity obscure the vision: The head feels heavy as if wrapped, the mouth is dry and sticky but no desire to drink water, the chest feels tight but no hunger, bowel movements are not smooth, and the tongue coating is thick and greasy. Drowsiness caused by high mental stress or excessive fatigue coupled with rain. The Neijing says: "Where evil gathers, the Qi must be weak; where righteous Qi exists within, evil cannot invade." The head is the meeting point of all Yang. If it is obscured by dampness and turbidity, the clear Yang will not rise and the turbid Yin will not descend, then one will feel drowsy and sleepy.

Children's sleepiness is a sign of physical health alert, not a manifestation of lack of sleep during their growth and development period as some people mistakenly believe. Insufficient Qi and blood, spleen deficiency, etc. can cause drowsiness in children. The above are some of the reasons that cause sleepiness in children. Parents should carefully check whether their children have similar sleepiness. After comparing the above reasons, you should go to the hospital to treat your child's sleepiness under the guidance of a doctor.