Infants’ head shaking from side to side during sleep may be related to environmental discomfort, vitamin D deficiency, convulsions, and so on.
1. Environmental discomfort: when the indoor environmental temperature is high, too many clothes, the baby will sweat when sleeping, resulting in head, neck itchy, will be through the left and right head shake to relieve the itch.
2. Vitamin D deficiency: Vitamin D affects the absorption and utilization of calcium and phosphorus, and the lack of which can cause nerve excitation, manifesting itself as easy to startle at night, excessive sweating, head shaking, and occipital baldness.
3. Convulsions: when infants have neurological lesions, such as cerebral developmental malformation, various encephalitis, meningitis, intracranial hemorrhage, etc., it can cause convulsions, which will be mistaken by parents as head shaking.
Infants sleep head shaking from side to side, there may also be other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, give targeted treatment or treatment.