Baby sweating while feeding rickets

Many mothers will find that when they are feeding their babies, their children’s heads are covered in sweat. They don’t know why. This needs to be looked at from several aspects. The situation of babies sweating and suffering from rickets while breastfeeding should not be ignored. It is caused by vitamin D deficiency. This is a chronic nutritional disease and children need to be supplemented with vitamin D every day. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that it is a physiological phenomenon. Some children may sweat when they breastfeed harder.

1. Does the baby always sweat have rickets?

The full name of rickets is vitamin D deficiency rickets, which is a common disease in children. It is a chronic nutritional disease mainly caused by insufficient vitamin D in the body, leading to abnormal calcium and phosphorus metabolism. Calcium deficiency is secondary to vitamin D deficiency. Of course, a small number of cases are caused simply by insufficient calcium intake, or both, which can lead to rickets. If a child has symptoms such as excessive sweating, irritability, crying at night, occipital hair loss, rib valgus, square head, pigeon chest, and funnel chest, these are important bases for doctors to judge whether the child is calcium deficient. It is also an important syndrome for diagnosing rickets. It is recommended to supplement your baby with calcium and vitamin D in time, take your baby out to bask in the sun more often, and ensure a reasonable nutritional balance.

2. Treatment of rickets

1. The Chinese Nutrition Society recommends that the daily dietary calcium intake for children aged 0 to 6 months is 300 mg, for children aged 7 to 12 months is 400 mg, and for children aged 1 to 3 years is 600 mg. As long as there is enough breast milk or enough formula milk, infants and young children can meet their calcium nutrition needs. Calcium supplementation is generally not required for the treatment of rickets unless it is complicated by hypocalcemia such as tetany.

2. In addition to vitamin D treatment, attention should be paid to strengthening nutrition, ensuring sufficient milk supply, adding weaning food in time, and insisting on daily outdoor activities.

3. Prevention of rickets

1. Full-term infants who are breastfed or partially breastfed should start supplementing with vitamin D 400 IU/day 2 weeks after birth. Premature infants, low birth weight infants, and twins should start supplementing with vitamin D 800 IU/day 1 week after birth. Supplementation should be continued until the age of 2 years. If the growth rate is fast, it is not advisable to reduce or stop taking vitamin D even when there is plenty of sunshine in the summer. Generally, calcium supplements are not needed, but when milk intake is insufficient and nutrition is poor, appropriate supplementation of micronutrients and calcium supplements can be used.

2. Infants who are not breastfed and children who consume less than 1000 ml of milk per day should supplement with vitamin D 400 IU/day.

3. Adolescents who do not consume 400 IU/day of vitamin D, such as insufficient intake of dairy products, eggs or foods fortified with vitamin D, should supplement with 400 IU/day of vitamin D.