Baby's hands and feet are cold

The fair and clean babies spend most of the winter in their mothers' arms. The more the mothers look at their children, the more they like them. However, some mothers frown when they touch their babies' hands. The indoor temperature was obviously not low, but the baby's hands and feet were indeed cold, so the parents wrapped him in layers, which caused the baby to cry in dissatisfaction, and the parents were still confused.

So what exactly causes babies to have cold hands and feet? What are the different types of cold hands and feet in babies? Every parent who touches their child's cold hands will have all kinds of doubts. The following is an introduction from several aspects.

Children's cold hands and feet are mostly caused by poor blood circulation, which is a phenomenon of false cold and real heat. It is especially common in infants and young children under 3 years old. This is mainly because babies (especially infants) have less blood in their limbs than in their internal organs. Due to insufficient blood supply to their limbs, they are more likely to feel cold than adults. In addition, the baby's nervous system is not yet fully developed, and the autonomic nerves responsible for managing vasodilation and contraction are prone to disorder, causing the small blood vessels at the ends of the limbs to be in a spasmodic contraction state and become cold when the high fever first occurs.

Poor blood circulation in the human body will lead to insufficient blood supply to the extremities, resulting in cold hands and feet. According to TCM theory, children with frequently cold hands and feet have a yang deficiency, which is caused by insufficient qi, blood, yin and yang. Children with cold hands and feet due to Yang Qi deficiency have weak resistance and are prone to repeated illnesses. Especially in winter, cold evil may enter the body, causing children to suffer from upper respiratory tract infections, pneumonia and other respiratory diseases, and they may also suffer from infectious and immune diseases.

In addition, if the baby's hands are frozen in winter, he may develop frostbite and other skin problems. Parents can do some hand rubbing exercises to promote blood circulation for their children, or they can go to the hospital for pediatric massage, or they can take some medicines to dredge the meridians and warm up the yang energy.

From the above introduction, we can understand that there are many reasons why babies have cold hands and feet, the main reason is poor blood circulation. It may also be due to weak Yang Qi, so parents do not need to worry too much about the problem of cold hands and feet of their baby. At the same time, they cannot completely ignore it, because babies with weak Yang Qi are likely to suffer from many diseases such as pneumonia.