What are the dangers of children sleeping late?

Everyone should go to bed before 11 o'clock at night, because staying up late can cause great harm to the human body. Especially for the kidneys, children are in the stage of growth and development. If the baby goes to bed late, it is easy to have developmental delay. And the child going to bed late will also affect the secretion of hormones, so parents must control their children's sleep. So what are the dangers of having children sleep late?

1. Height: A child’s height depends not only on the genes of his parents, but also on factors such as sleep, exercise, and diet. Sleep is one of the key factors because growth hormone can be secreted during sleep.

I won’t explain much here, as I believe parents are well aware of the mechanism. In short, it is best to put your children to bed before 8:30 p.m. Get up around 7am.

2. Good sleeping habits can help the brain run smoothly, improve memory, and make reading twice as effective with half the effort. On the contrary, if children do not sleep well, the harm is obvious.

3. Harm to the heart: If children do not get enough sleep, they will have excessive stress reactions, feel irritable and easily angered; their emotions will become excited, and their heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing will all accelerate. Over time, this will sow the seeds of cardiovascular disease in children.

4. Obesity and lack of sleep increase the secretion of ghrelin, which inhibits the secretion of leptin. Children lack sleep, feel listless during the day, doze off, and have reduced activity, which leads to obesity.

1. The harm of children going to bed late affects their height

Pediatric experts point out that the period from 10 pm to 1 am is the stage when growth hormone secretion is most active, and children should be in deep sleep at this time. It takes about 50 minutes to transition from light sleep to deep sleep, so you should go to sleep from 9 o'clock. Going to bed too late means staying awake for too long, which will stimulate the secretion of a large amount of adrenaline in the body, thereby inhibiting the pituitary gland from secreting growth hormone. This is another major reason why children do not grow tall.

2. The harm of children going to bed late is heart damage

We tend to think that the liver is the most harmed part of our body by staying up late. In fact, for young children, the heart is the most seriously damaged. Studies have shown that children who go to bed late are more likely to be irritable because lack of sleep or inability to fall asleep can make them more easily excited. When one is emotionally excited, breathing becomes uneven, blood pressure rises, and heart rate accelerates. If this continues for a long time, it will sow the seeds of cardiovascular disease in children.

3. The harm of children going to bed late affects their weight

Children who go to bed late often have the habit of getting up late the next day. This makes it easy for them to skip breakfast and eat too much at lunch or have a poor appetite. Overeating and irregular work and rest schedules can easily cause a child's weight to diverge. Either too fat, malnourished, or too thin.

4. The harm of children going to bed late affects liver function

The liver assimilates and stores glycogen from 3 p.m. to the early morning of the next day. After 3 a.m., the gallbladder decomposes the glycogen and converts it into glucose to supply the child's body with what it needs the next day. If the child goes to bed late, the liver's original assimilation function will be reversed, and the liver glycogen that was originally to be stored will be converted into glucose and consumed to supply the child's needs for staying up late. By the next day, the child's body will have insufficient glucose, and if this continues, the child's liver function will inevitably weaken.

5. The harm of children going to bed late is early puberty

Going to bed late will also stimulate the secretion of stress hormones, inhibit the activity of growth hormone, and affect the normal regulation of sex hormones by the pituitary gland, so children will not grow tall and will experience precocious puberty.