Many children sleep at night tossing and turning, their hair and clothes soaked with sweat. For such a situation, most parents will first wonder: is the child too hot? So, today I will talk about the child's sweating from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine.
As we all know, children are "pure yang bodies", their growth and development are fast, and their metabolism is vigorous, so they are more likely to sweat than adults.
However, sweating can be normal and abnormal. If your child sweats excessively, often sweats profusely, or sweats profusely in a quiet state, has severe night sweats, or has abnormal sweating symptoms in the hands and feet, then parents should pay enough attention!
Because sweat and blood are of the same origin, every drop of sweat that children shed is the nutrition they have worked hard to absorb to help them grow and develop better. Now that these nutrients have been lost, how can children grow taller.
That's why, although your child eats no less than others, other people's children can grow tall and strong, while your own children are always thin and short and prone to illness.
The main cause of sweating in children is internal heat
In addition to sweating while sleeping, if there are any of the following manifestations, then your child's sweating is likely to be caused by food accumulation.
1. Tossing and turning while sleeping, unstable sleep, and even sudden awakening and crying;
2. Flushed complexion, hot palms and feet;
3. The color of the lips is reddish, and there is always a peculiar smell of food in the mouth, especially when you get up in the morning;
4. Bloating in the abdomen, looking like a small leather ball, loss of appetite, and not liking to eat;
5. The stool is dry and difficult to pass, similar to sheep feces and eggs, and usually takes three or four days to defecate once;
6. Mood swings, change face when you say you change your face, get angry when you say you are angry, and cry and make trouble at every turn;
7. The tongue is bright red in color and has a thick coating.
1 dietary prescription to eliminate food accumulation and remove internal heat
What should we do as parents to prevent our children from sweating excessively? Actually, the solution to this problem is very simple, you only need to do two things.
1. Try to be light and easy to digest at dinner, don't eat high-fat, high-calorie food, and eat seven or eight minutes full.
2. Once the child is found to have signs of food accumulation, use Jiao Sanxian (Jiao Hawthorn, Jiao Malt, Jiao Shenqu) and other ingredients to cook soup for the child to drink, so as to achieve the purpose of strengthening the spleen and eliminating accumulation.
If the child also has constipation problems, you can add an appropriate amount of radish seeds on this basis, and if the child has more obvious fever, you can also add a little light bamboo leaves.
Children love to sweat, and excessive sweating is not a trivial matter, and parents must pay full attention to it. Because on the one hand, internal heat can easily induce a variety of diseases, making children susceptible to diseases, and on the other hand, excessive sweating will also consume a lot of energy, thus affecting the growth and development of children.
In addition, if the child has frequent food problems, his height development has been affected, or his physical fitness is extremely poor, and he often suffers from diseases, it may be difficult to achieve results with dietary therapy alone.
At this time, we need to start from the root cause, on the one hand, repair the damage to the spleen and stomach so that the function of the spleen and stomach can be restored, and on the other hand, use traditional Chinese medicine to remove the waste products generated during the damage to the spleen and stomach to ensure timely discharge from the body.
Only by organically combining the above two methods can the child's spleen and stomach function be restored to the best state and the occurrence of internal heat accumulation can be reduced.