Why do children sweat a lot?

  During the clinic, parents may ask what is wrong with excessive sweating in children.  Excessive sweating in children is a medical condition known as pediatric sweating, which is characterized by excessive sweating of the whole body or localized sweating in a quiet state. It can be physiological or pathological. In Chinese medicine, there is a difference between night sweating and spontaneous sweating. Sweating at night after going to sleep, and sweating after waking up is night sweating; during the day in a quiet state, or a little activity, more sweating is self sweating.  Physiological sweating is a normal physiological phenomenon, not pathological, and generally does not require special treatment, because of the hot climate, thick clothing, strenuous activity, eating too quickly, etc. Physiological sweating can play a role in regulating body temperature and water electrolytes. It is related to the fact that children have young skin, which contains more water, rich capillaries, high metabolism, and incomplete phyto-neural regulation.  Pathological hyperhidrosis is seen in cases such as pediatric rickets and tuberculosis. It often occurs when the room temperature is not high, quiet state such as sleep, but still sweating profusely, but also accompanied by irritability, crying, wasting, poor appetite, poor mental state and other symptoms, then you should promptly ask the doctor for consultation and treatment. If the rickets is caused by calcium deficiency, vitamin D and calcium supplements can be appropriately supplemented under the guidance of the doctor and more exposure to sunlight. Other diseases are treated accordingly.  The treatment of sweating disease in Chinese medicine requires a combination of disease identification and evidence identification to avoid misunderstanding the condition.  According to TCM, sweating in children is a result of the imbalance of yin and yang, and the common types of symptoms include surface deficiency, disharmony of Ying and Wei, deficiency of Qi and Yin, and heat in the spleen and stomach. For example, internal Chinese medicine, acupressure and external Chinese medicine.  1. Dissonance of Ying and Wei. The manifestation is sweating when moving, often easy to catch a cold, the face is not flashy, the tongue is light white, the tongue coating is thin white, and the pulse is thin. Treatment can be with Gui Zhi plus Huang Qi Tang. The whole formula consists of cinnamon stick, white peony, licorice, ginger, jujube and astragalus; 2. Deficiency of the surface. You can use Yu Ping Feng San, which is now available in the market; 3. The spleen and stomach contain heat. It can be treated with Angelica Six Yellow Soup, or other heat-clearing treatments such as Gentian and Liver Diarrhea Soup; 4, Qi and Yin deficiency. It can be treated with Shengve San.  The above medications need to be used after a doctor’s visit.  If there are no other entrapment symptoms, the following methods can be used for treatment. The most important thing is safety, on the basis of safety, to obtain curative effect.  1, acupuncture point compress, you can take appropriate amount of five times seed powder, mix it with warm water or vinegar to make a paste, compress Shen Que point (in the umbilicus) every night before going to bed and fix it, it is more effective for regulating all kinds of pediatric sweating evidence, especially night sweating. This method comes from a simple formula introduced in Gong Xin’s “Ancient and Modern Medical Guide” of Ming Dynasty. It is “five times the seeds of the end, Jin tuning filled with umbilical cord, bound with silk, a night will stop; or add alum powder is particularly good”. Five times the seeds powdered and applied to the navel. This formula is used to treat all kinds of sweating, whether it is night sweating, spontaneous sweating, or sweating in the heart of the hands and feet. Especially for children who have difficulty in taking medicine, it is more convenient to use this method. In addition, this formula can treat prolonged diarrhea in children. This method has been used repeatedly for children who have had diarrhea for a long time and whose anus is not red.  It is also useful to use five times the seeds, dragon bones, tulip according to 2: l: 1 grinding powder spare. Randomly use the medicine, wipe the child’s Shenqu and Tanzhong points before going to bed, then mix the powder with vinegar into a clay ball such as bean size and put it on the Shenqu and Tanzhong points, then use a 4 cm x 4 cm piece of tape on the Shenqu and Tanzhong points where the medicine is put, the middle point of the tape is aligned with the umbilicus and double breast points, each time 6-12 hours, once a day, 5 times for a course of treatment. Zhao Xuemin’s “Compendium of Materia Medica” has: “Yujin, more than spontaneous sweating, Yujin end of bedtime transfer coated on the breast” the discussion. It has been tested clinically and is effective in treating spontaneous sweating and night sweating. This clinical observation in the Yin deficiency internal heat type has the best efficacy, Qi and Yin deficiency type is the second, the spleen and stomach heat type effect is not good.  2, to develop a reasonable diet, control the excessive intake of meat and sweets, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits.  3, dried peach, glutinous rice root is also commonly used to stop sweating herbs, many people like to boil water to stop sweating, the efficacy is reliable, no side effects, easy to take the material, economical, water decoction solution gas fragrance sweet, children easily accepted.  4, you can use good quality American ginseng 1~2 pieces of water, some children can be relieved, princeton ginseng appropriate amount can also be. It is effective for children with Qi-Yin deficiency, manifesting as dry mouth and red tongue.  5, Longmu strong bone particles, now pharmacies do not know if there is no more, previously used with good results.  If the above 5 easy methods do not work, or to the hospital to see.