Why does my baby sweat at night?

Some children always sweat when they sleep at night, and the sweat drops are as big as beans. This may be because the child has a weak constitution and poor resistance, and the yang energy in the body cannot be well stored on the body surface, resulting in leakage. It may also be because the child lacks yin blood, resulting in yin deficiency and internal heat. In addition, disharmony between the spleen and stomach can also cause children to sweat while sleeping. When such a phenomenon occurs, you should pay attention to prescribing the right medicine.

Some children often sweat while sleeping, and the sweat soaks their clothes and pillowcases. This phenomenon is called night sweats in traditional Chinese medicine. Many parents are worried about this and seek medical treatment everywhere, but to little effect. In fact, night sweats in children are not necessarily pathological. Most of them are physiological. Because children's skin contains more moisture, has abundant capillaries, has an active metabolism, and their autonomic nervous system regulation function is not yet fully developed, they are prone to sweating when they are active. If children are too active before going to bed, it can increase the body's heat production, or shortly after eating, gastrointestinal motility increases, gastric juice secretion increases, and sweat gland secretion also increases accordingly. These can cause children to sweat more after sleeping, especially within 2 hours after sweating.

Pathological night sweats are more common in rickets, mainly in children under 3 years old, and are mainly manifested in sweating in the first half of the night, which is caused by low blood calcium. Night sweats in children with tuberculosis are characterized by sweating all night long. The children also have symptoms such as low fever, weight loss, no weight gain or weight loss, loss of appetite, and mood changes.

If you find that your child sweats a lot when sleeping at night, parents should find out the cause of sweating in time and give appropriate treatment. If sweating is normal, it is best not to use medication, but to adjust the child's life routine and diet. For example, don't let the child play too much before going to bed, don't let the child eat too much high-calorie food, and the indoor temperature should not be too high when sleeping. These methods can eliminate sweating. If the sweating is pathological, you should go to the hospital for treatment in time.