Sweating - natural process. However the increased perspiration signals that in an organism not everything is all right. The reasons for that can be various, dangerous and not dangerous.
Not the dangerous reasons of plentiful perspiration and ways of its elimination
The first thought which arises if your child sweats – to the kid hot. To restore normal heat exchange, remove from it superfluous. The clothes in which the child sleeps and plays have to breathe and be sewed from natural fabric.
Comfortable temperature indoors is 18 – 20 wasps.
In the period of a disease protective reaction of an organism is the increased perspiration. As at babies this process is created not up to the end, plentiful sweating remains about one third of month after a disease. In this case it is necessary just to wait when the organism returns to normal. Sweat can be reaction to emotional experiences – positive or negative. Surely find out what concerns your child. Children can sweat also because of the large constitution.
It is necessary to watch with special care a condition of skin of the baby. Sweat causes irritation of gentle skin of kids and leads to an intertrigo (potnitsa). You do not keep long the child in the clothes which got wet from sweat. Whenever possible take baths with a sage, bark of an oak and other herbs, or, as a last resort, wipe folds on a body of the baby with the cotton wool moistened with grass infusion.
Dangerous reasons of plentiful perspiration and ways of its elimination
However you should not consider strong perspiration a commonplace as it can be a signal of serious diseases. Surely tell about it to the doctor. The first that he will try to check – amount of vitamin D in an organism of the baby. If it is not enough, rickets begins to develop. In that case the doctor will appoint intake of vitamin and frequent walks on sunny day. If your child sweats at night, and sweat sticky and cold – is possible failure in work of a cardiovascular system. The kid sweats at rest, and in the room not too hot – pathology of a thyroid gland is possible. Cold can provoke excessively too sweating as the organism tries to adjust body temperature and to remove toxins.
In this case doctors will deal with the problem, and providing comfortable conditions to the kid depends on you.
Change clothes of the child more often, you watch that in damp clothes the draft did not blow him. If there are no special instructions of the doctor, it is not necessary to place the kid in excessively warm room (or more warmly to dress). It you will provoke a bigger sweating. Anyway you should not panic, the best medicine for your chest baby is quiet and careful mom.