Why do children grind their teeth when sleeping at night?

In our lives, the baby's physical health is an issue that parents are very concerned about. Many parents find that their children have symptoms of teeth grinding when sleeping at night. What is going on? What causes it and does it affect the baby's healthy growth? Today, the editor will introduce in detail some of the reasons and relief methods for babies’ teeth grinding during sleep at night. Come and find out!

In life, many children have the habit of grinding their teeth. In fact, teeth grinding is a manifestation of a disease. Many parents are worried that teeth grinding will affect their children's teeth. Therefore, we must find ways to avoid the occurrence of children's teeth grinding. To prevent the occurrence of children's teeth grinding, we must first understand why children grind their teeth. Once the cause is found, prevention will be much easier. What causes teeth grinding? The editor will introduce the specific content in detail below.

Methods/Steps

Unbalanced nutrition.

Children may grind their teeth because they have a picky eating habit, especially a dislike for vegetables, which leads to nutritional imbalance and thus vitamin D deficiency. Lack of vitamin D can cause calcium deficiency, leading to phosphorus metabolism disorders, causing involuntary contraction of the facial chewing muscles at night, and the teeth will grind back and forth. Some are caused by rickets, so parents should supplement their children with vitamin D in time, and often take their children outdoors to bask in the sun to promote calcium absorption, which will alleviate the bruxism.

Intestinal parasitic diseases.

If there are roundworms in the child's stomach, it will also cause teeth grinding, because the roundworms will crawl to the child's anus and bite after the child falls asleep. This will make the child very restless when sleeping and cause teeth grinding. At this time, you should help the child expel the roundworms in time. You can buy roundworm medicine to take, which can also improve the teeth grinding situation. Excessive mental excitement and tension.

The sleeping posture is not right when sleeping.

Children's teeth grinding may be related to their own mental factors. Maybe they watched a movie before going to bed and made the child unusually excited, or they were extremely angry because of something, which would also cause teeth grinding while sleeping. Therefore, before the child goes to bed, you should let the child calm down before going to bed, which can prevent teeth grinding. The sleeping posture is not right when sleeping. Some children often cover their heads with quilts when they sleep, which can also cause teeth grinding. Therefore, parents should help their children adjust their sleeping position when they sleep. This will not only prevent children from grinding their teeth, but also allow them to get a better sleep.

Digestive dysfunction.

Don't let your children eat too much at dinner, and don't give them midnight snacks. Not only will this not allow your children to get good nutrition, it will also increase their burden, excite the brain cells that manage digestion, and cause teeth grinding through reflex action. So give your children less dinner.

After reading the detailed introduction above, everyone should now understand the real reason why babies grind their teeth. If parents understand the original intention, we can help babies improve such symptoms and let them sleep more healthily and happily at night and grow up.