Children crying in their sleep may be caused by physiological factors such as hunger and overheating of the environment, as well as other causes such as intussusception, nutritional vitamin D deficiency rickets, and night terrors.
1. Physiological factors: if the child sleeps too hungry or in a long time in the overheated environment, may appear to sleep up and cry. These are normal physiological phenomena, generally in the child before going to bed to feed, or transfer the child to the temperature and humidity of the environment, can improve the child’s discomfort.
2. Intussusception: Intussusception is considered to be caused by intestinal tumors, intestinal polyps and other factors. Patients will show crying and restlessness, paroxysmal abdominal pain, vomiting, jam-like blood stools and so on. If a child has intussusception, he or she will cry when sleeping.
3. Nutritional vitamin D deficiency rickets: Nutritional vitamin D deficiency rickets may be caused by insufficient intake of vitamin D, insufficient sun exposure, and excessive loss of vitamin D. The patient will have soft skull, rib crosstalk and other symptoms. Patients will be soft skull, rib beading, funnel chest, irritability, agitation, sweating and other manifestations. Therefore, children with nutritional vitamin D deficiency rickets will have the symptom of sleeping up and crying.
4. Other: children crying in their sleep may be caused by night terrors, prickly heat, eczema, indigestion and other reasons.
Children cry in their sleep, there may be other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital, complete the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor to give targeted treatment or treatment.