What are the reasons for children's head sweating when sleeping?

As we all know, sweating mostly occurs in hot weather, but children often sweat on their heads while sleeping. Since a large amount of sweat will affect the baby's sleep, parents need to find out the cause of sweating on the heads of children while sleeping and solve it as soon as possible when they find this symptom in their children. I will explain it to you below, and I hope you all benefit from it.

Sweating is one of the physiological functions of human skin and a form of metabolism. Excessive secretion of sweat glands in babies is called hyperhidrosis. There are two main reasons for baby's excessive sweating: physiological excessive sweating and pathological excessive sweating. Physiological hyperhidrosis means that a child has good growth and development, is in good health, and has no diseases, but often sweats during sleep. Physiological hyperhidrosis is more common in the head and neck, often occurring within half an hour after falling asleep, and sweating stops in about an hour.

Reason 1: Physical reasons

Infants and young children have active metabolism, their skin contains more water, and there are more microvessels on the surface of their skin, so more water evaporates from their skin. Because the baby's brain and nervous system is not yet fully developed and is in the growth and development period, the body's metabolism is very active. Coupled with the stimulation of overheating, the baby can only regulate normal body temperature by sweating to evaporate the heat in the body. Moreover, children are lively and active, and many of them like to play with their parents for a while after going to bed at night, so they often sweat a lot after falling asleep.

Reason 2 for baby's head sweating when sleeping: nursing reasons

Parents are often accustomed to deciding the best environmental temperature for their children based on their own subjective feelings. They like to cover their babies with more quilts and cover them tightly. This is also the reason why the baby's head sweats when sleeping.

Reason 3 for baby's head sweating when sleeping: Nutritional reasons

Many parents are always worried that their children are not getting enough nutrition and try every means to get their children to eat more supplements. Some parents will give their children milk, malted milk, etc. before the baby goes to sleep. After the baby falls asleep, the body produces a large amount of heat, which is mainly dissipated through sweating through the skin.

When the baby's head sweats while sleeping, parents should carefully observe whether the baby's sweating is physiological sweating or pathological sweating. If the baby's head sweats due to the above reasons, parents do not need to be too nervous.

What are the reasons for children's sweating on the head when sleeping? As mentioned above, the three factors of physique, care and nutrition are currently the main causes of babies' sweating on the head when sleeping. Therefore, when parents notice that their children have symptoms of sweating on the head when sleeping, they need to look for the above three causes to solve the problem of the baby's head always sweating.