Babies scratching their ears and cheeks while sleeping are considered to be due to environmental factors, eczema, calcium deficiency and other factors.
1. Environmental factors: If the baby wears too much clothing while sleeping, it will lead to discomfort, thus triggering the symptom of scratching ears and cheeks while sleeping. This is a normal physiological phenomenon, which will be relieved after replacing the baby with thinner clothes.
2. eczema: if the baby belongs to the allergic body, local in contact with pollen, dust and other allergic substances, will make the local vascular permeability enhancement, thus triggering local skin itching symptoms, so that the baby sleep scratching the ears and cheeks.
3. Calcium deficiency: when the baby’s body lacks calcium, it will make the sympathetic nervous excitability increase, thus causing the symptoms of sleeping and scratching, accompanied by shaking, night sweating (sweating abnormally after falling asleep, waking up sweating stops), sleep is not solid and other symptoms.
There may be other reasons for babies to scratch their ears and cheeks in their sleep, so they should go to the hospital for a complete examination and targeted treatment.