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How much sleep should a child get? 10 hours. But why do children need 10 hours of sleep for adults, who usually sleep only 8 hours?
Because children are in the period of growth and development, the organ tissue is not yet mature, the physiological function is not perfect, and it is easy to fatigue. You should get more sleep every day than adults to meet the needs of good health.
First, the importance of adequate sleep for children
- Lack of sleep in children can affect intellectual development.
- Lack of sleep will also appear easy to lose temper, to change the child's bad temper, first ensure that the child has enough sleep.
- Lack of sleep in children reduces resistance. To ensure good health, you must ensure sleep time.
- Children often lack sleep, which can affect the secretion of growth hormone and affect growth and height.
Second, the sleeping position is not recommended
Sleep on your tummy
It is easy to wrinkle and can also cause neck and back pain.
Curl up and sleep
Sleeping like this for a long time is not good for the spine, and it is easy to hunchback.
Sleep with your head covered
Sleeping under a quilt and sleeping on a pillow is easy to damage the respiratory system and easy to acne.
Pillow hand sleep
The sleeping posture is prone to large and small faces, and it is not good for some organs of the body.
Sleep with your mouth open
When the mouth is open, the teeth will bulge outward, and the face will become ugly.
Third, a good way to help sleep
(1) Auricle pressure method is an external treatment, which can also play a good effect on insomnia. The principle is to use adhesive tape to accurately stick the beans on the ear points, knead, press, produce acid, numbness, swelling, pain and other stimuli, so as to promote blood circulation, accelerate the role of metabolism in the body, and achieve the effect of regulating the yin and yang of the internal organs and calming the mind. Insomnia often selects acupuncture points of the divine gate, liver, heart, sympathetic, and pituitary gland. During the operation, first local routine disinfection, then take ear point bean tablets to apply, and then press with your fingers, 3-5 times a day, each time for about 1-2 minutes, once for 3 days.
(2) Tuina method
Children's sleep disturbed and adult insomnia is not the same, children's sleep disturbed from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine is more related to the function of the spleen and stomach, in Chinese medicine there is a saying called "stomach discord is restless", that is, gastrointestinal discord, discomfort, children sleep is not good, this time can be through pediatric massage to strengthen the spleen and stomach, promote sleep. Specifically, there are the following steps of manipulation:
(1) Replenish the spleen meridian, because the spleen is the foundation of the day after tomorrow, it is an organ that promotes digestion, and it is quickly rotated and pushed on the spleen meridian point on the thread surface of the thumb;
(2) There is a stripe at the root of the palm called big fish, small fish, that is, the two muscles bulge in the middle of the depression, the acupuncture point is called Xiaotianxin point, Xiaotianxin acupoint has a calming effect, if the child's temper is relatively poor, you can also press Xiaotianxin, generally pinch 10 times, and then knead 10 times after pinching, so that you can do it 10 times back and forth repeatedly, first pinch and then knead, not continuously, continuous pinch is easy to be uncomfortable, and may even break the skin;
By replenishing the spleen and kneading Xiaotianxin, you can achieve the effect of promoting sleep. Of course, it can also be combined with the child's tongue pulse to make the overall dialectical treatment to develop appropriate massage techniques.
Tips:
The general public in need can go to the TCM pediatric or TCM nursing outpatient clinic on the third floor of the outpatient building of our hospital for consultation!
Authors: Chen Huixian, Luo Baoling, Ye Wanshan of the Emergency Party Branch
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