It is well known that a third of a person's life is spent in sleep. The quality of sleep will greatly affect people's physical health, experts pointed out: many mental illnesses and sleep quality are related.
In life, many adults have a very serious insomnia problem because of poor sleep, so you know that insomnia is not only the patent of adults, even children will have insomnia problems.
How the baby does not sleep, it is not disobedience, it is likely that he is "insomnia"
Late at night, The mother Zhao Sister zhao who was tired for a day was already sleepy, but the baby was full of energy and did not sleep. In fact, when The children of Sister Zhao's family are 3 months old, they can sleep independently.
But I didn't expect that at 8 months, the once well-behaved baby suddenly became "sticky and irritable", and he didn't sleep. Sister Zhao was worried about the child's physical problems, so she went to consult a doctor.
After the doctor's examination, he found that the child's body was normal, and the reason why the child did not sleep was likely to be "insomnia". The doctor said: You see him crying and crying, crying for your hug, looking very disobedient, in fact, the baby is insomnia, he himself is also very anxious.
Sister Zhao felt very incredible about this, a small child, there is no worries, how can you still have insomnia? In fact, not only Sister Zhao, but even Kojima listened to such words and completely subverted the traditional cognition.
Infants and young children will also have insomnia, what is the harm of long-term insomnia to the baby?
Compared with larger people, children sleep for a long time, especially infants and young children, in addition to feeding, the rest of the day is almost all sleeping. But some babies are unusual, not only do not sleep enough, but even reach the point of "insomnia".
Insomnia is a social problem that seriously affects people's quality of life and health, and is widespread among young and middle-aged people, the elderly and even primary and secondary school students. Insomnia occurs even in infants and young children, and it is very common, and about 20%-30% of infants and young children have serious problems falling asleep or waking up at night.
Sleep is one of the prerequisites for ensuring the healthy growth of children, growth hormone in the body, only when sleeping, can be secreted vigorously, promote the growth of children's body tissues, especially bones.
If the child is not sleep-deprived, then during the day it will be mentally weak, depressed, and more likely to lose temper, which is the reason for not resting well at night.
In addition, staying up late also violates the normal metabolism of the human body, and also affects the child's absorption of nutrients, resulting in poor appetite and low immunity, which greatly affects growth and development.
What are the causes of insomnia for stress-free babies?
Physiological causes
When your child can sleep well before, and suddenly appears in a "sleep" situation at a certain stage, in the exclusion of disease factors, then it is likely to be caused by cognitive growth.
As children grow and unlock new skills, the brain makes huge changes, but these changes can make children very anxious, become irritable, not good, and even not sleep.
External environmental disturbances
Sleep is a nasty thing: when the child has resistance to sleep, or feels "very annoying", then the child's sleep quality is naturally not high, only let sleep and pleasant memories are closely linked, is the best way to sleep. Parents' wrong way of coaxing sleep: "shoot as soon as there is movement", "turn on the headlights when the child just wakes up", which seems to care for the child, will actually affect the baby's sleep.
What should I do if I have a "insomnia baby" at home? Let's start with the following three aspects
1) Reasonably arrange the time of daytime sleep
If you want your baby to sleep well at night, you must reasonably arrange your baby's daytime activities, during the day, let the baby have fun, when the daytime activities consume a lot of physical strength, the baby will naturally sleep well at night.
2) Create a suitable sleeping environment
In the room where the baby sleeps, it is necessary to nourish the environment suitable for sleeping, such as playing some soft music, which can soothe the baby's nervous mood and help the baby enter a state of sleep.
3) Start with the diet
Want to help the baby's sleep, you can also start from the diet, before going to bed you can give the baby a glass of milk, it is also helpful for sleep, but be careful that the baby can not eat too much before going to bed.
It is worth noting that insomnia in infants and young children cannot be treated with drugs
First, the drug can become dependent
Taking a drug for a long time will form a dependence, that is, "drug addiction", once addicted, it is difficult to leave, and then if you do not continue to take it, it is difficult for the child to fall asleep and stay up all night.
Second, the drug will also make the child's memory loss
Long-term use of sleeping drugs will reduce people's cognitive ability, memory and intelligence will be affected, especially in children whose brains are still developing, and nerve interference will cause irreparable consequences.
Today's topic: Has your child ever had "insomnia"?