Several major hazards of sleeping with the light on for babies

Many babies are afraid of the dark, so many young parents often leave the lights on for their babies to sleep. In fact, this is a very bad thing to do. Sleeping with the lights on for a long time will reduce the baby's sleep quality and affect the baby's growth and development. In particular, the light will stimulate the baby's undeveloped eyes, posing a great threat to the baby's future eye health. Therefore, parents should try to avoid letting their babies sleep with the lights on.

First, doctors say that letting infants and young children sleep under the light for a long time will shorten their sleep time each time, make their sleep shallower, and make them easily awakened.

Second, everyone knows that ensuring children get enough sleep is very helpful for their height growth. Because the baby's growth continues during sleep, the baby's sleep is very important. Good sleep can promote the child's growth and development, enhance intelligence and disease resistance. Sleeping with the lights on will not only cause children to have poor sleep, but also, children will secrete growth hormone during sleep. Once the lights are on, the growth hormone level will drop, thereby slowing down the development rate. Keeping the lights on in the bedroom all night will change the body's natural ability to adapt to the brightness of day and darkness of night, thus affecting the baby's normal metabolism and harming growth and development.

Third, sleeping under the light for a long time will affect the child’s ocular reticular activation system, which is not good for the child’s vision development. Because continuous light stimulation is very harmful to the eyes, the eyeball and ciliary muscles cannot get enough rest. This can easily cause retinal damage to infants and young children, affecting the normal development of their vision.

Therefore, parents should actively cultivate the baby's good habit of turning off the lights before going to bed, or they can set up a night light far away from the baby to make it easier to take care of the baby at night. For the healthy growth of the baby, young parents should never let the baby sleep under the light for a long time just to save trouble. Good sleep can lay a solid foundation for the baby's healthy growth.