What to do if your child is sweating in bed at night



Depending on the cause, children’s night sweating can be treated by adjusting clothing and room temperature, supplementing with vitamin D and calcium, and other medications.

Sweating at night can be physiologic or pathologic.

Physiological causes such as too thick cover, high room temperature, this situation needs to give the child a suitable cover, do not wear too thick clothes or airtight clothes to sleep, can be appropriate to open the air conditioning and air humidifier to regulate. In addition, the child’s metabolism is more vigorous, so it is also easy to sweat while sleeping, generally with the growth and development will slowly disappear, the precautions are the same as above.

If the child is not only sweating, but also sleep disturbance, easy to wake up, occipital baldness and other manifestations, then it may be pathologic, such as lack of vitamin D and calcium, need to be supplemented with vitamin D and calcium under the guidance of the doctor, usually pay attention to take the baby for outdoor exercise, more sunshine. Ensure balanced nutritional intake, eat more food with high calcium content, such as milk.

Sweating at night may also have other causes, 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. All of the above medications should be used under the guidance of a doctor.