What should I do if my child has night sweats due to physical weakness?

When people are infants, their organs are not fully developed and their constitutions are weak and they are prone to illness. Sometimes parents will find that their babies sweat a lot when they sleep, and they are particularly prone to catching colds when they wake up. Sometimes children may also have a low fever. Children's physical weakness is also reflected in their fear of cold. The body temperature of babies is lower than that of ordinary children. Let me explain to parents how to solve this situation.

Traditional Chinese medicine divides children's night sweats into deficiency syndrome and excess syndrome. If the night sweats are caused by a serious illness, you can use ginseng, Ophiopogon japonicus, Schisandra chinensis, Astragalus membranaceus, Lycium barbarum, Cornus officinalis, floating wheat, and black plum as medicine. Food therapy includes taking chicken soup stewed with white astragalus, yam, wolfberry, and supplements such as bird's nest.

If the symptoms include night sweats, excessive sweating on the head and neck, irritability, poor appetite, bad breath, thirst and preference for cold drinks, dry and hard stools, yellow urine, red tongue and greasy yellow tongue coating. This is due to poor spleen and stomach function, inability to digest food, and food stagnation and transformation into heat. In treatment, it is advisable to clear away heat, digest food and resolve stagnation first. Medicinal herbs include Magnolia officinalis, Poria cocos, costusroot, rhubarb, gypsum, forsythia, floating wheat, glutinous rice root, chicken gizzard lining, Shenqu, hawthorn, and malt. For this type of night sweats, do not take supplements.

You should pay attention to dietary adjustment, eat more vegetables and fruits, but avoid eating hot fruits such as durian, rambutan, mango, longan, lychee, and grapes. It is advisable to eat a light diet. Do not eat fried chicken, fried fish, curry, coconut milk, chili and other fried, irritating and indigestible foods. Also avoid eating ice cream, cold soda and other foods that are harmful to the spleen and stomach.

It is common in children. After the food stagnation is digested, the Chinese medicine practitioner will use methods of nourishing the spleen and stomach or strengthening the spleen and promoting digestion, and then organize it to completely cure the night sweats. At this time, the child's digestive function will improve, the nutrients in the food can be fully absorbed, and the body will naturally become stronger.

It is actually not serious for children to have night sweats due to physical weakness. As long as we adjust their diet, the child’s resistance can be enhanced because of their healthy spleen and stomach. This is very effective. Moreover, children's night sweats are not necessarily caused by physical weakness. It may be caused by other symptoms. If the child has severe night sweats, the editor recommends that parents take your baby to the hospital for examination.