What should I do if my four-month-old baby sweats a lot?

Taking care of a baby is a meticulous job, especially when it comes to temperature control, because most babies cannot experience extreme cold or extreme heat. This situation will cause great damage to the baby's body, easily induce various diseases, and hinder the baby's growth and development to a certain extent. For example, what should I do if my four-month-old baby sweats a lot? Let’s take a look at the explanation below.

Children with heat accumulation in the spleen and stomach may have a brisk or reduced appetite, good spirits, constipation, and frequent bowel movements. Although they are thin, they do not feel tired and they play all day long. The principle of treatment is to clear away heat and promote bowel movements to expel the heat.

The most common type is Yin deficiency and internal heat. Due to long-term night sweats, the body fluid is consumed excessively, resulting in a Yin deficiency phenomenon. The children have red and dry lips and tongue, hot hands and feet, dry mouth, and bowel movements every few days with dry and granular feces. The treatment should be to clear away heat and nourish yin so that the heat can be eliminated internally and the sweat can be eliminated quickly.

Children with night sweats are often prone to catching colds, and very few of them are truly physically weak. Most of them kick off their quilts in their dreams due to sweating and catch colds, which should be distinguished from colds caused by physical weakness. Among children with night sweats, some do not suffer from internal heat accumulation. They sweat a lot, are prone to colds and coughs, and are afraid of colds. They also sweat easily after a little exercise. For such children, it is not advisable to blindly use supplements during treatment, but to harmonize the spleen and stomach.

Children with weak constitutions often sweat in patches on their head, chest, and back when they are active during the day or after falling asleep at night. It is often caused by malnutrition due to improper feeding or poor digestion and absorption. In terms of nursing, attention should be paid to adjusting feeding methods, promoting children's appetite, and increasing the intake of protein, fat and sugar. If necessary, traditional Chinese medicine can be used to regulate spleen and stomach disharmony.

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. In addition to excessive sweating at night, there are also symptoms such as irritability, restless sleep, easy awakening, square head, baldness on the occipital bone, 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.