What causes children to sweat easily?

In daily life, many children are prone to sweating. Whether they are sleeping or running or exercising, they are always found sweating profusely. Many mothers are very worried that their children sweat too much. What does it mean? In fact, as children's metabolism develops faster and faster, it is normal for children to sweat. In the following article, let's learn how to judge whether children are prone to sweating?

There are approximately 2 to 5 million sweat glands in human skin, which form a developed sweat system. When the human body is in a high temperature environment, it sweats a lot through physiological regulation, and the evaporation of sweat takes away the heat from the body surface, so that the body temperature does not rise due to the high temperature outside, thus maintaining a constant body temperature. Therefore, sweating is a protective reaction of the human body to adapt to the high temperature environment.

Compared with adults, infants and young children have higher water content in their skin, more microvessels on the surface of their skin, and they are more active and have a high metabolism, so more water evaporates from their skin. Furthermore, the secretion of sweat glands is regulated by the autonomic nervous system. The baby's neuroendocrine regulation function is relatively poor, and the cerebral cortex has poor inhibitory function on the autonomic nervous system. Even when sleeping at night, the autonomic nervous system is still in an excited state, so the baby is prone to sweating when he just falls asleep.

What is normal sweating for babies?

Generally speaking, children have an active metabolism and are active, so they sweat more than adults. They are particularly prone to sweating when they are active, feeding too quickly, or playing excitedly.

Normal sweating in children is physiological sweating, and there are often obvious reasons for sweating, such as wearing too many clothes, strenuous exercise, eating spicy and irritating foods, etc. Once the cause of sweating is eliminated, the sweating phenomenon will disappear. There is no standard to measure the amount of sweating. It mainly depends on whether the baby has other accompanying symptoms and discomfort while sweating.

It’s so hot in summer, why don’t some babies sweat?

Generally speaking, a baby who doesn’t like to sweat is a special baby. However, any situation must be viewed from a comprehensive perspective. If the baby does not sweat, but the baby does not have any abnormal symptoms, then it is still normal. However, from the perspective of Western medicine, it is possible that the baby's sweat gland secretion system is diseased, which is called ahidrosis.

Infrequent sweating is harmful to the baby's health. If the sweat glands are blocked, an important detoxification channel will be lost, and an important line of defense against immune disease will be lost. Therefore, in order to conform to the rhythms of the four seasons and the laws of life, we should sweat when we should. Therefore, for babies who do not sweat, parents should take them to the hospital for examination.

In the article, we learned the main reasons why children sweat easily. In fact, why do babies always sweat? Generally speaking, this phenomenon is called physiological sweating. Sometimes, if the baby does not like to sweat, it is very likely that there is an endocrine disorder, which should attract the mother's attention.