What’s wrong with baby’s sweaty hands and feet?

Baby sweaty hands and feet, the first thing to rule out infectious fever. If infectious fever can be excluded, it may be caused by excessive body warmth, excessive exercise, or unbalanced nutritional intake, in addition to pay attention to what Chinese medicine calls qi deficiency. Infectious fevers are usually associated with respiratory tract infections, and children may have symptoms of respiratory catarrh and respiratory irritation, including coughing, runny nose, and sneezing. In the absence of these symptoms it is important to actively search for the primary focus of the infection, especially central fevers and intracranial infections. Repeatedly crying children are noted for severe abdominal infections, especially acute suppurative appendicitis. Overdressing the child, strenuous exercise, eating spicy and irritating foods, etc., are conditions that often lead to sweating of the hands and feet. After eliminating the causes of excessive sweating, the symptoms of sweaty hands and feet will naturally disappear. These children are generally healthy and do not need special examination or treatment. If the child often sleeps at night with sweaty hands and feet, accompanied by obvious occipital baldness, it is possible to consider the lack of calcium and vitamin D deficiency, some may be the early state of rickets. If the child’s hands and feet are sweaty and accompanied by abdominal distension, abdominal pain, eructation and other symptoms, it is considered that there is the possibility of food accumulation. In short, if the child in the exclusion of a variety of easy to cause sweating in addition to physiological factors, or repeated sweating, it is recommended that we must go to the hospital in time, clear diagnosis and symptomatic treatment.