9-year-old child sweats while sleeping at night

It is quite common for 9-year-old children to sweat while sleeping at night, but it is also an aspect that worries many parents. They wonder if the child is sweating so much because he is sick. It is understood that children of this age have active sweat glands, so do not cover them with too thick quilts at night. In addition, the moisture content in children's skin is high, so sweating a lot is a normal physiological phenomenon.

1. 9-year-old children sweat on their heads when sleeping at night

Excessive secretion of sweat glands is called hyperhidrosis. Children have a high metabolism, high water content in their skin, more capillaries, and are active and lively, so they generally sweat more than adults. Excessive sweating caused by reasons such as high ambient temperature, thick clothing, strenuous exercise, etc. is a necessary process for the body to regulate body temperature and is called physiological hyperhidrosis. If the above factors do not exist, excessive sweating when the body is in a quiet state is called pathological hyperhidrosis.

2. What should I do if my baby sweats a lot while sleeping?

1. If a mother finds that her baby sweats a lot, she should first look for the cause of the sweating. If it is physiological excessive sweating, the mother does not need to worry too much. Just eliminate the external factors that cause the baby's excessive sweating.

2. Pay attention to your baby’s clothing and blanket. We recommend that babies wear one more piece of clothing than adults so as to train their resistance from an early age. Some mothers feel that their children's hands are cold in winter, so they try to add more clothes for their children. They wear several sweaters, cotton jackets and cotton pants, and cover their children with several quilts at night. You should know that if you dress or cover your baby too much, the baby will sweat a lot and his clothes will get wet with sweat. If you don't change them in time, the baby will use his body temperature to dry the wet clothes, which will make him catch cold easily and cause cold, fever and cough. Babies who sweat excessively may become dehydrated due to excessive water loss in their bodies.

3. Parents need to replenish their babies with water in time. It is best to feed them light salt water, because babies sweat just like adults. In addition to losing water, they also lose a certain amount of electrolytes such as sodium, chloride, and potassium. Feeding your baby with light salt water can replenish water and salts such as sodium and chloride, maintain the electrolyte balance in the body, and avoid dehydration and collapse.

4. Parents should dry the baby’s body in time if he/she is sweating. Families that have the conditions should give their babies a sponge bath or a bath, and change their underwear in time. The baby's skin is delicate. Excessive sweat accumulates in skin folds such as the neck, armpits, groin, etc., which can cause skin ulcers and cause skin infections.

5. If you find your baby sweating excessively, the mother should carefully observe whether there are other complications and go to the hospital in time to treat the disease that causes excessive sweating.