Does your child's hands and feet often shake when sleeping?

Hand tremors are a very common disease in life. If a child's hands and feet tremble when sleeping, parents must pay attention to it. The cause of the child's trembling hands and feet may be damage to the brain nerves or calcium deficiency. It is best to take the baby to the hospital for examination. Usually, you must pay attention to keeping the child warm, and the nutrition must be comprehensive. Give the baby some calcium supplements appropriately, and the diet must be diversified.

1. Difficulty falling asleep and restless sleep

Night terrors and crying at night are signs of calcium deficiency in babies. Newborns who are calcium deficient often wake up suddenly at night and cry incessantly.

2. Night sweats

The head sweats profusely after falling asleep, and the sweating is more obvious after crying.

3. Abnormal temperament

Babies who lack calcium will have strange tempers and often show symptoms such as irritability, crying, and restlessness, making them difficult to look after.

4. Late eruption and uneven tooth arrangement

Some babies still have no teeth when they are one and a half years old, or their teeth are underdeveloped, malocclusion is incorrect, the teeth are uneven, loose, or fall out prematurely.

5. Baldness circle on the pillow

Babies who are calcium deficient are prone to sweating, and usually the hair on the back of their head is worn away, forming baldness on the back of their head. Baldness on the occipital area may partially reflect calcium deficiency, but it is not an absolute condition.

The anterior fontanelle usually closes at the age of 1 to 1.5 years. Babies with calcium deficiency often still do not close after 1 and a half years old, resulting in a square head.

7. Growth retardation, late learning to walk, bone and joint deformities

Most children who are calcium deficient learn to walk at around one year old, or they may have "X" shaped legs or "O" shaped legs due to soft bones, loose and weak muscles, and leg bone pain.

8. Muscle and tendon relaxation

If calcium deficiency is severe, the abdominal wall muscles will lead to relaxation of the intestinal wall muscles, which may cause gas accumulation in the intestinal cavity and form a swollen abdomen like a frog's belly. If the tendons of the spine are loose, hunchback, pigeon chest, and sternum pain may occur.

9. Beaded rib cartilage hyperplasia

When newborns lack calcium, the cartilage of each rib proliferates and connects like beads, often compressing the lungs, making it difficult for the newborns to breathe and making them prone to bronchitis and pneumonia.

10. Poor mental state

Calcium deficiency in babies may also manifest as poor mental state, loss of appetite, lack of interest in the surrounding environment, convulsions, mental retardation, decreased immune function, etc.

1. Rickets can even cause various bone deformities, such as pigeon chest or funnel chest, O-shaped legs or X-shaped legs, square head, rib valgus, etc.

2. Low muscle tone and delayed motor function development.

3. Abnormal cerebral cortex function, dull expression, and delayed language development.

4. Baldness on the back of the head. Calcium deficiency can cause the baby to sweat at night. The stimulation of sweat will make the baby habitually shake his head and rub the pillow while sleeping. Over time, the hair on the back of the baby's head will be worn out and cause baldness on the back of the head.

5. Decreased immunity. Long-term calcium deficiency will lead to low immunity in babies and even affect their intellectual development.

6. Deformities. Babies with severe calcium deficiency are also prone to convulsions, bone deformities and other symptoms.

What to do if your baby is calcium deficient

First, it is best to supplement calcium through food. Parents can choose some calcium-rich foods for their babies. Such as milk, cheese, bean products, green leafy vegetables, dried shrimps, orange juice, etc.

Second, milk calcium products are extracted from pure natural cow's milk, are harmless to the stomach and intestines, and are especially suitable for absorption by infants and young children. Milk calcium is in liquid and oily form. For infants under 1 year old, you can cut the tail of the capsule and squeeze it directly onto a spoon or the mouth of the baby bottle for the baby to lick. Babies over 3 years old can chew and eat it directly. Or it can be added to milk, juice or other complementary foods. It is also convenient to feed and is especially suitable for infants and young children.

Third, there are many calcium preparations. Parents can choose inorganic calcium products with rich calcium content, such as calcium carbonate and calcium lactate, which melt in the mouth. There are calcium supplement kits specifically for babies, which can be given to children in a fixed amount every day. It is usually taken from half a month to one month after birth and continued until 2 and a half or 3 years old.

Fourth, proper sun exposure helps the baby absorb calcium supplements, and the baby should expose the skin as much as possible to increase the skin's synthesis of VD. In autumn, parents can let their babies sunbathe directly in the sun, and in summer they can let their babies stay in the shade of trees, so that their babies' skin is frequently exposed to ultraviolet rays, which will also help better calcium absorption.