Young mothers often worry that a child sweats at night, during sleep, or a child sweats at night. This is a fairly common phenomenon, and the reasons for it can be very different.
Why does the child sweat in a dream?
External factors:
- High temperature and lack of humidity in the room. For normal sleep, the temperature in the children's bedroom should not exceed 22 ° C, and the humidity should be 60-70%. Unfortunately, for some apartments this is an unattainable ideal. Well, if you live in a hot and stuffy apartment, take care at least that in the nursery there was an air humidifier (during the heating season - mandatory) and every night a good airing room.
- Too thick a blanket and a hot pillow. There is no need to put the child in a warm blanket, if you hide yourself with one blanket. Thermoregulation in infants and preschool children is imperfect, many mothers are aware of this and therefore think that a child needs warmer clothing and a blanket than adults. In fact, overheating for infants is as unfavorable as overcooling. Make sure that the child is comfortable. Perhaps a flannel or even a thin cotton diaper will be enough. And some children who like to open themselves in a dream, it is better to simply put on pajamas with a long sleeve and not hide at all.
Internal factors
- Let's start with the most harmless: lack of physical activity during the day . The sweat glands work and must work daily. An active healthy baby who ran well, jumped and sweated during the day, is unlikely to sweat at night.
- Hyperactivity - refers to the disruption of the central nervous system, often found in modern children.
- Sweating can be accompanied by teething , because during this period, the defenses of the body decrease.
- Infectious or catarrhal disease . Increased sweating is one of the first signs that an inflammatory process begins in the body. This symptom may appear 2-3 days before the onset of the main symptoms of the disease (runny nose, sore throat, fever, etc.). Increased sweating can occur within a month after the transferred infectious diseases.
- Vegeto-vascular dystonia (a more accurate name - the syndrome of vegetative dystonia - SVD) - can lead to the fact that the child sweats heavily in a dream. In the period of intensive growth, this is possible, since there is an imbalance in the work of different parts of the autonomic nervous system.
- Genetic predisposition.
- Problems with the thyroid gland.
- Predrachitnoe condition , a lack of vitamin D - this factor can be the main, if in addition to night sweats you observe a delay in teething, increased nervous excitability of the child.
As you can see, many different reasons, from completely innocuous to very serious ones, can lead to a child's night sweats. Therefore it is very important to understand as soon as possible why the child sweats at night, and if there is a suspicion of the development of any diseases, call the doctor in time.