Why does a six-month-old baby sweat while sleeping?

We all know that babies are lively and active by nature, and they tend to sweat easily. However, once the baby is quiet, he will still sweat, which always makes parents very worried. They don’t know if there is something wrong with the baby’s body or if the baby is uncomfortable somewhere. This is also the most anxious thing for parents, especially when the baby is six months old and the baby cannot express his emotions. Let’s understand why a six-month-old baby sweats while sleeping.

Why does a six-month-old baby sweat while sleeping?

In fact, sweating is a normal physiological phenomenon of the human body. Sweat can take away excess heat and some metabolic products such as uric acid and fatty acids in the body. Because children grow and develop rapidly, their metabolism is more vigorous than that of adults, and they generate relatively more heat and metabolic products. At the same time, children's autonomic nervous system is not fully developed. When they fall asleep, the sympathetic nerves in charge of the sweat glands will be temporarily excited due to the loss of control by the brain, resulting in excessive sweating. This is completely normal. As long as the child has no other symptoms, such as irritability, crying, easy waking, etc., there is no need to worry about him. This type of sweating often occurs within half an hour after falling asleep, and is mainly on the forehead. It usually stops slowly within 2 hours after falling asleep. It is more common in children aged 3 to 7 years old and gradually disappears with age. Some people call it physiological hyperhidrosis.

However, if the child is usually weak and sweats profusely when falling asleep at night, as if he is being drenched in water, or even sweats all night long, wetting the pillow and clothes, and is accompanied by symptoms such as irritability, crying, and weight loss, then it is pathological hyperhidrosis. A common cause is vitamin D deficiency rickets. In addition to excessive sweating at night, there are also symptoms such as irritability, restless sleep, easy awakening, square head, baldness, and pigeon chest. If you have the above symptoms, you can supplement vitamin D and calcium in appropriate amounts under the guidance of a doctor. When eating, you should also pay attention to eating more foods rich in calcium, such as fish, shrimp skin, etc. With aggressive treatment, excessive sweating can be corrected quickly.

If children often sweat before dawn and have pale complexion and a weak and rapid pulse, they may have hypoglycemia. This can be corrected by giving them some sugar water or eating some cakes.

For physiological hyperhidrosis, you can use homemade floating wheat glutinous rice porridge, which can effectively stop sweating. That is, take 50 grams of glutinous rice and floating wheat every day, add appropriate amount of water, cook porridge over low heat, and drink frequently. Or use 15 grams of Astragalus, 20 jujubes, add appropriate amount of water, simmer the soup, drink the soup and eat the jujubes, 1 dose per day.

In addition, children suffering from tuberculosis, anemia, rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases may also cause excessive sweating. Therefore, when children sweat excessively, they should go to the hospital for treatment in time to rule out certain diseases causing the excessive sweating.

Night sweats

Children have a purely yang body, their physique is delicate and weak, their muscles and skin are very thin, and they are particularly prone to sweating compared to adults. It is normal for children to sweat only a small amount. On the contrary, if the child does not sweat at all, you should consider that there is a problem with sweat excretion. If the amount of sweating is excessive and accompanied by other symptoms, you should consider whether the child is sick. Children's sweating may manifest as sweating on the hands and feet, sweating in the chest and heart, sweating on half of the body, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, etc.

Spontaneous sweating refers to spontaneous sweating with the slightest movement during the day or night without the use of diaphoretic drugs or the elimination of other stimuli such as hot weather, thick clothing, strenuous activity, etc. Most of these children have weak Yang Qi and lose body fluids.

The above is an introduction to why a six-month-old baby sweats while sleeping. After understanding it, we know that there are many reasons for this phenomenon. We must find the cause and then make adjustments. If it is caused by illness, we must take the baby to the hospital for examination and treatment in time. If it is because the baby is calcium deficient, do not blindly give the baby medicine. Be sure to go to the hospital for examination in time, listen to the doctor's advice and take nourishing measures under the doctor's guidance.