When asked why the child sweats, most often pediatricians answer: "This is a matter of individual metabolism in your child. But if you are very worried, no matter how rickets happen, give the baby vitamin D3. "
As you know, vitamin D3 is extremely useful for babies. It is he, along with calcium, is responsible for the formation of the musculoskeletal system of the child. Naturally, the baby gets this vitamin on walks when the sun is shining. Of course, they are "fed" the child not only direct, but also reflected light.
But vitamin D3 can be dangerous, especially for children with atopic dermatitis. In these cases, many pediatricians question the need for vitamin D3.
Therefore, we strongly recommend not to influence the sweating of the child's head in order to prevent rickets. Since most often the child sweats heavily not because of rickets, but because of non-observance of the temperature regime in the room where he is.
Why does the head of a baby sweat?
If the child's head sweats during feeding, this means that with a lot of physical stress (and for babies feeding is exactly work), the child does not have the opportunity to drain excess heat. The room can be so hot that the only opportunity for him not to overheat is to throw out excess heat together with sweat.
A similar situation happens when the child sweats at night. In the evening, before going to bed, the parents of the baby, with the already formed wrong metabolism, can be very cold. Therefore, at night they close the windows tightly, warm the room with a heater, tightly wrap the baby so that he does not "catch a cold" at all. As a result, on the morning of wet it turns out not only the head of the child, but all the things that his relatives so carefully wrapped up.
Another reason for excessive sweating of the head may be banal heredity.
What should I do if my head sweats?
The main method to combat sweating of the head is the humidification of the room, regular wet cleaning, frequent airing of the room.
In addition, you need to look closely, bed linen from what materials is used in your nursery. If it is present, even in a minimal amount, an artificial thread - immediately change it to linen made from natural fabrics - cotton, linen. Excess sweat such linen should absorb, and not leave on the baby's skin, thereby creating a "greenhouse effect."
Pay attention also to the length of the child's hair. If the room is hot and lower the temperature there is no possibility (for example, in the summer hot days and nights), your handsome or beautiful woman will be much easier not with the long locks laid by the mother in a wonderful hairstyle, but with a short haircut. Sometimes practicality is more important than beauty.
And can still rickets?
But if all of the above conditions you have fulfilled, and sweating has remained
- The head becomes more like a square, not an oval,
- on the bones of the hands and feet, bone growths are formed,
- legs are bent and take the form of "O" or "X"
- hair falls out on the head,
- the child acquires a "frog stomach" (becomes flattened as a result of abnormal development of the abdominal bones).
If these symptoms are not yours and your child receives a variety of food in sufficient quantities, do not risk the health of the child, introducing into his diet vitamin D "for prophylaxis."