Dark circles under the eyes of a child - what is the reason?

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  • Obsessive neuroses
  • Hyperactive child and restless child. Increased excitability in a child
  • Child rolling his eyes: psychological or medical problem?
  • Increased anxiety in a child
  • Increased fatigue. The child gets tired quickly
  • Chin tremor in a newborn: the child's chin trembles
  • The child does not sleep well at night, the child grinds his teeth (bruxism): a behavioral feature or a disease?
  • Where to start and who to contact?

Obsessive neuroses

In most cases, the problem of obsessive-compulsive neurosis and tics is solved by play psychotherapy or a course of medical treatment, and most often by a combination of drug treatment and psychological work with suppressed nervous tension in the child.

Obsessive neuroses in children manifest themselves in the form of obsessive movements and thoughts. Obsessive states (obsessions) manifest themselves as irresistible and involuntarily arising thoughts, fears, and, as a result, obsessive movements.

Intrusive thoughts

  • when a child fears for the health and safety of himself and his family
  • constantly thinks or imagines that something bad might happen to them
  • always remembers negative events that happened to him or his family in the past

Typical obsessive mental actions

  • reading license plates, signs, operations with numbers and letters from license plates and signs
  • counting lamp posts, houses, lawn fences, etc.
  • constant search for “favorite” and “unfavorite” letters and numbers

Obsessive movements and actions.

The scope of their manifestations is very extensive. This could be a nervous tic in a child, or obsessive movements. The most typical obsessive movements and actions in children:

  • biting nails and lips
  • hair pulling
  • thumb sucking, sucking or biting a pencil, pen, button, edge of clothing
  • coughing, grunting, or making noises
  • twitching of limbs
  • blinking and/or stereotypic eye movements
  • circling
  • tapping, clapping
  • rocking
  • squatting, limping when walking
  • rubbing the body or objects
  • shaking and shaking hands and objects
  • jumping and skipping for no reason
  • muscle contractions of the arms and legs, as well as the face.

Typical complex ritual actions

  • Children can walk on certain floor tiles
  • walk around, twist, stroke the object a certain number of times
  • jump up and clap your hands, pronounce phrases, etc.

Also, neuroses can have a different course:

  • episodic
  • chronic
  • progressive

Neurosis in a child can have different causes

. The most common is the presence of any mental trauma in the child, as well as the presence of emotional factors. Such as: a tense and conflictual situation in the family, incorrect and too harsh and authoritarian upbringing of children.

Often this list also includes physiological reasons: heredity and genetics, previous diseases, physical overload of the child, lack of sleep.

One way or another, all this is due to the fact that the child has increased arousal in certain areas of the brain. Basically we are talking about dysfunction of the subcortical nuclei of the brain, which are responsible for posture and facial expressions, muscle tone and global motor acts. The child is forced to somehow relieve this excitement. Thus, this discharge occurs precisely through actions.

These may be: tics (the child twitches or jerks with some part of the body), fast stereotypical movements, there may be obsessive postures, obsessive movements; the child may sit down, jump, make some sounds, pronounce words or even swear words (with Tourette syndrome). Very often such manifestations are not taken seriously in the initial stages.

Tourette's syndrome is a genetically determined condition associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder and tics, or stereotypical tic-like movements.

Also, neurosis-like obsessive states are largely provoked by chronic streptococcal infection with an increase in antistreptolysin O (ASLO) in chronic tonsillitis, the so-called PANDAS syndrome, ongoing neuroinflammation with an increase in markers such as NSE and S100 protein. We also often see such manifestations in children who are carriers of neuroinfections, that is, infections that have a toxic effect on the nervous system.


EEG (electroencephalography) for children at the Echinacea clinic

We advise you to contact a child neurologist, child psychiatrist and allergist-immunologist. For convenience and coordination of assistance to the child, we practice a consultation of all three specialists. Thanks to this, the appointments are more informative, and the effect of the prescribed therapy occurs faster.

Obsessive neurosis responds well to treatment in the early stages, especially in preschool age.

As for Tourette's syndrome, even if there is a genetic predisposition, this syndrome can become silent. After all, until the debut of Tourette syndrome, the child lives with the same genetic makeup, but there are no tics or vocalisms. This is not only a matter of genetic predisposition to Tourette's syndrome, but also related problems and the current state of the child's health. Working with provoking factors (obsessive-compulsive disorder, infections, concomitant inflammatory diseases, sleep disturbances, high levels of anxiety, etc.) usually leads to gradual improvement, often until the complete cessation of tics and vocalisms.


We widely practice play therapy for the treatment of obsessive neuroses in children

Hyperactive child and restless child. Increased excitability in a child

Symptoms and causes.

A hyperactive child cannot sit for a long time and do work associated with a static body position, often screams loudly and violently expresses emotions, has an attention deficit that does not allow him to concentrate on one thing, and is forced to discharge accumulated tension through physical activity.
That is, in the child’s nervous system, excitation significantly dominates over inhibition. The danger of increased excitability is a decrease in learning ability and, as a result, a child falling behind his peers in development.
It is important to understand the source of increased excitability and restlessness.

Therefore, the first thing we will offer you is to find out the reason for what is happening. There are three main options:

  1. This is your child’s normal natural temperament
    and the intervention of a psychiatrist or doctor is not required. The child is mentally healthy and psychologically well-being. In this case, we will give you some recommendations, and you and your child will become noticeably more comfortable.
  2. There is some psychological problem
    that increases the child’s level of emotions, anxiety or aggression, for example.
    Emotion requires release (discharge, realization), hence increased excitability and restlessness. The child is mentally healthy and does not need any medical treatment.
    These kinds of psychological problems are quite easily diagnosed during a conversation with the child and parents, and then gently corrected.
  3. Increased excitability and restlessness are a consequence of a medical problem.
    We can talk about, for example, increased intracranial pressure, chronic inflammation somewhere (adenoids, tonsils), neuroinflammation, the consequences of birth hypoxia or trauma, childhood neurosis, a latent form of epilepsy. We also encounter more serious problems in our practice, such as autistic disorder and childhood schizophrenia. In this case, it is very important to find the true cause of what is happening, and only then will the treatment work effectively and safely.

Hyperexcitability, restlessness and hyperactivity as character traits

. If we talk about increased excitability and restlessness as characterological characteristics, this is possible if the child is extroverted and temperamental by nature. Or the child may copy this style of behavior from one of the family members. But we can talk about the norm only if this type of hyperactivity does not lead to health problems and if the child is not so excited that he stops sleeping normally, begins to get sick often, or lags behind in general development. Having severe disinhibition and excitability, the child cannot concentrate and master the skills that he is supposed to master by age.

Hyperactivity test

Active attention deficit:

1.Cannot concentrate on one thing, it is difficult to maintain attention;2.May forget what he was assigned or asked for;3.Likes to start a new activity, but cannot finish it;4.Cannot organize clearly his activities and maintain a routine; 5. It is difficult to maintain order, he may lose all his things; 6. Does not like monotonous tasks that require mental effort and attention; 7. May forget what he was assigned or asked for; 6. Doesn't respond immediately when approached.

Motor disinhibition:

1. Often moves restlessly (runs, jumps, climbs somewhere, fidgets in a chair and at the table); 2. Takes a long time to fall asleep and sleeps poorly, may wake up often4. Likes to talk a lot and uncontrollably.

Impulsiveness:

1. Poor control of one’s behavior; 2. Can’t regulate one’s actions and most often does not follow rules; 3. Poorly concentrates attention; 4. Can’t wait for something to finish or reward; 5. No precise line of behavior, strong variability in results and states; 6. May begin to answer without listening to the question; 7. Often interferes in someone else’s conversation and interrupts it; 8. Doesn't know how to wait, can run without waiting for the start.

If you find at least six of the listed signs in a child under the age of 7, we can assume that there is a tendency to hyperactivity. But only a specialist can make an accurate diagnosis. Where to start and who to contact with an overly excitable child?

If we are talking about a hyperactive, excitable and restless child, then it all starts with a detailed identification of the reason for what caused the child’s nervous system to remain in a state of excitement for such a long time. Most often in such cases, we recommend starting with an appointment with a pediatric neurologist and/or a child psychiatrist, and we also suggest getting a joint appointment with these two experts. This makes it easier and faster to determine the cause of increased excitability, to avoid treatment that is unnecessary in many cases, or to select exactly the treatment that your child needs. Based on the results of the initial examination, we can recommend additional laboratory and instrumental studies. We can also save you time and send a laboratory examination form to your email address for your initial appointment; to do this, you can fill out the “ask a doctor a question” form

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What examinations are needed?

The following directions are usually given:

  • General blood analysis. It will show whether there is inflammation in the body, and will also help determine the baby’s hemoglobin level.
  • General urine analysis. It will help detect problems in the kidneys and the entire genitourinary system.
  • Feces for worm eggs and scraping for enterobiasis, which will indicate the presence or absence of parasites in the child.

If abnormalities are found in the tests, the pediatrician may prescribe additional examinations and consultations with the following specialists:

  • neurologist;
  • endocrinologist;
  • nephrologist;
  • Ultrasound specialist.

Child rolling his eyes: psychological or medical problem?

In most cases, the problem with eye rolling in a child has very specific causes (most often they are associated with disruption of the brain, but there may also be psychological reasons).

Symptoms and causes.

Rolling the eyes upward is normal for a newborn baby up to one month of age. Especially before bed, during the borderline state between sleep and wakefulness. But if a child rolls his eyes downward, you should pay attention to this and contact a pediatric neurologist. This phenomenon can occur for many reasons. The most common cause of eye rolling in newborns is increased intracranial pressure. The cause may also be nervous tics and Tourette's syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, i.e. relieving the child's increased nervous tension through some repetitive action.

One of the common tics is associated with rolling the eyes, twitching the eyes, or briefly looking in the same specific direction. Epilepsy can also be manifested by eye rolling. Petite epileptic seizures - absence seizures - are often accompanied by rolling of the eyes and a short-term “freezing”, stopping all higher mental functions of the child. Those. the child stops, falls silent, freezes, rolls his eyes, and after a while he “turns on” and continues to act as if nothing had happened. This is a manifestation of epileptic absence seizures. A minor epileptic seizure can develop into a major one. In this case, the child first rolls his eyes, then twitches one or more muscles, and after this a full-blown convulsive attack occurs - this is a more severe manifestation of epilepsy.

Other options are also possible.

For example, a child may have pain in the eyes, eyeballs with various diseases associated with the nasopharynx and ears (adenoids, inflammation of the sinuses, tonsils, or inflammation of the ears), when pain occurs in the area of ​​the facial skull and soft tissues of the face, pharynx. Who do you turn to when your child rolls their eyes?

In case of such symptoms, it is necessary to show the child to a pediatric neurologist and ophthalmologist, as well as an otolaryngologist if there are any specific problems. But first, we still recommend consulting a pediatric neurologist.

Why is the child pale and there are bruises under the eyes?

Parents begin to worry when their baby's complexion becomes unhealthy and dark circles appear. After all, bruises under a child’s eyes can be the result of various abnormalities: from simple fatigue to pathologies of internal organs. In this case, Dr. Komarovsky advises paying attention to the color of the circles, whether they are yellow, blue or bright red. The shade will help you find the source of the violations.


Why do bruises appear under a child’s eyes?

What do bruises under the eyes mean?

  • Blue , with prominent vascular network. They indicate thin, sensitive skin; a hereditary factor can be traced.
  • Dark , with a blue tint. They appear due to an incorrect daily routine, often from overwork.
  • Bright purple , against a pale face. They talk about the likelihood of anemia, you need to get tested for hemoglobin.
  • Black. May be a signal of circulatory or cardiovascular problems.
  • Yellowish-brown . Circles signal dysfunction of the liver, kidneys, and urinary system.
  • Reds . Spots with pronounced swelling can be symptoms of an allergic reaction, and without accompanying signs - infection with helminths.
  • Pink . Light-colored bruises appear with respiratory diseases and inflammatory processes in the respiratory system.

The possibility of accidental injuries or bruises to the bridge of the nose should not be ruled out. In this case, the bruise most often appears on one eye at a time or the redness is uneven. Such circles first turn purple, turn yellow after a few days, and then disappear.

Increased anxiety in a child

The main reason

Anxiety in a child is the constant presence of the nervous system in a protective adaptive reaction to external situations and circumstances that the child for some reason assesses as dangerous (stress reaction). The child may not be aware of them, since he grows up in them from birth, and he is used to them, but subconsciously feels restless and unsafe.

Common symptoms of increased anxiety in a child:

  • Anxiety in a child is often manifested by excessive attachment to the mother, since for the child she is the natural source of calm.
  • Increased anxiety may be accompanied by excitability and hyperactivity, or, conversely, exhaustion of the nervous system, depression and apathy of the child. The brain cannot maintain anxiety and excitement indefinitely and quickly becomes exhausted.
  • Very often, excessive anxiety is accompanied by immune depression (secondary immune deficiency due to stress) and frequent illnesses. For example, a child is highly susceptible to colds, brings all the infections that appear there from kindergarten, and spends a long time at home undergoing treatment.
  • An almost obligatory and most common manifestation of increased anxiety is sleep disturbance; the child has trouble falling asleep and often wakes up. Or, at first glance, he sleeps enough and a lot, but does not get enough sleep and gets up in the morning in a bad mood.
  • Fears (invents and endows safe things with dangerous properties).

First of all, it is necessary to understand in which area the causes of the problem lie. In psychological or medical

.

  1. Increased anxiety as a psychological problem.
  2. Anxiety in a child due to medical problems. This could be long-term brain damage during childbirth, hypoxia, asphyxia or birth trauma, after which the brain itself begins to generate anxiety in response to external circumstances. This may be increased intracranial pressure; in more complex situations, the causes may be autistic disorders, childhood psychoses, or even schizophrenia. And in order to help a child as effectively as possible, you need to accurately determine the nature of anxiety.

Treatment

Why is there no clear way in medicine to treat circles aimed at eliminating one or more manifestations when blue or black colors appear in a child’s lower eyelids? This happens, notes Obaglaza.ru, due to the presence of various diseases.

Therapy for children with such circles is carried out using effective methods for treating each individual case, taking into account the identified and established causes of circular color manifestations under the eyes.

Increased fatigue. The child gets tired quickly

In most cases, increased fatigue and exhaustion of the child’s nervous system has very specific causes and is quite easy to correct or treat.

It is very important to understand and find the reasons why fatigue occurs. Treatment must precisely target the cause of the problem. Unfortunately, we often see the opposite examples. For example, a child gets tired due to a chronic infection, and he is taken to a psychologist and “behavior is corrected,” or, for example, the cause of fatigue is related to hormonal levels, and he is sent to a psychiatrist and prescribed medications that are unnecessary in this case. The opposite situation is possible: the child does not have any special health problems, but only psychological problems that lead to fatigue. It is necessary to clearly understand the reason for what is happening, and only then the treatment will bring the desired result.

A child's abrupt switching from active and dynamic games to complete loss of strength, in which the child can fall asleep in one minute, is the norm for children from two to five years old.

At this age it will be absolutely normal fatigue followed by a transition to activity.

Increased fatigue should alert you if:

  1. The child is so tired that he cannot concentrate, lags behind his peers in learning and mastering new skills;
  2. The child cannot sleep or wakes up at night, feels drowsy during the day;
  3. In the morning the child wakes up tired, has difficulty turning on, refuses breakfast;
  4. The child often suffers from colds;
  5. You notice a prolonged (more than 2 weeks) general lethargy in the child, dark circles under the eyes and pallor, a decline in mood;
  6. The child is in a negative mood most of the time, gets offended and cries for no objective reason;
  7. Drowsiness, apathy and indifference to previously favorite activities appear;
  8. The child complains of headache or dizziness;
  9. The child loses motor dexterity, shows aggression, and often changes positions when reading or doing homework;
  10. The child complains of fatigue and/or pain in the legs.

Increased fatigue is mainly due to the fact that the child's nervous system cannot maintain arousal long enough to support everyday tasks, including learning, mastering skills, speech, and so on.

A tired child finds it difficult to maintain attention on one thing, it begins to dissipate, as a result of which the child resists learning, which turns out to be too difficult for him. The situation develops into conflicts, and the reason for this is increased fatigue.

  1. Exhaustion of the child’s nervous system due to prolonged stress,
    i.e. “getting stuck” of the body in a state of preparation for responding to danger. The stress response is designed by nature to be short-term; it comes to quick realization and a way out of stress. But if suddenly the stress readiness in the child’s body becomes long-term, the nervous system is gradually depleted. Thus, brain exhaustion occurs and, as a result, rapid fatigue.
  2. Sleep disturbance .
    Normal healthy sleep consists of four stages, of which the deepest and most important are the 3rd and 4th. With a deficiency of deep stages of sleep, nervous exhaustion occurs quite quickly. Frequent variants of sleep deprivation in children: the child has a normal sleep duration, but sleeps superficially, the child sleeps with awakenings, the child has shortened sleep (falls asleep for a long time or wakes up too early). Some sleep problems can be clarified by performing overnight EEG monitoring.
  3. The presence of increased intracranial pressure
    , when the brain is pressured by an excessive amount of cerebrospinal fluid and cannot remain in a state of excitement for a long time.
  4. Chronic diseases,
    and very often these are metabolic disorders, infections (adenoids, chronic tonsillitis), decreased thyroid function or other endocrine imbalance. Chronic infections can be associated with the herpes virus, streptococci, which very often cause such chronic fatigue. In this case, we will suggest that you put the child’s immunity in order, treat infections, and then the health of the child’s nervous system will be restored.

Diseases that circles under the eyes indicate

Circles under the eyes are considered a pathology if they are persistent and cannot be eliminated by simple methods (following a regimen, prescribing proper nutrition, limiting physical and mental stress). In this case, an examination is necessary to identify the causes of the pathology.

Diseases that cause circles under the eyes:

  • Congenital heart defects;
  • Disturbances in the blood supply to the head;
  • Head and face injuries;
  • Edema due to kidney disease;
  • Dehydration;
  • Allergic reactions;
  • Early manifestations of jaundice;
  • Pathologies of the respiratory system.

If a child suffers from serious illnesses, circles under the eyes are not the only symptom. Parents need to pay attention to the general condition of the baby - lack of physical activity, fever, rash, shortness of breath, complaints of weakness and pain. A child in this condition must be taken to a doctor or a doctor called to his home. To establish a diagnosis, an examination will be required.

Chin tremor in a newborn: the child's chin trembles

In most cases, these symptoms disappear completely with timely diagnosis and treatment, especially if treatment is started in the first six months of the child’s life.

When a newborn baby's chin trembles, this almost always indicates increased stimulation of the nervous system. If the chin trembles frequently or constantly, it means that excitation in the child’s central nervous system significantly dominates inhibition. And this, in turn, may indicate a history of brain damage: intrauterine infection, intrauterine and/or birth hypoxia, birth trauma, increased intracranial pressure, etc. In this case, the child’s chin shakes while crying or spontaneously. Other neurological symptoms may also appear. An increase in muscle tone is often observed; the baby does not form the correct reflexes inherent in newborns: proboscis reflex, palmar-mental, palmo-oral, support reflexes. There may also be other neurological signs indicating that the nervous system has been damaged in some way. In more serious cases, early development may be impaired.

Where to start and who to contact? If a child often experiences chin trembling, first of all, he should get an in-person consultation with a pediatric neurologist. The doctor will examine the baby and, if necessary, prescribe an ultrasound of the brain and ultrasound of the cerebral vessels to look at the situation with intracranial pressure and cerebral circulation. If epilepsy is suspected, encephalography (EEG) is advisable. As a rule, the most relevant age for research and determination of the causes of this problem is up to six months, since most of the consequences of intrauterine and birth damage to the nervous system are well restored during the first 6-12 months of life (the so-called “therapeutic window”). It is at this moment that every effort should be made to ensure that the damaged functions are fully restored and continue their development as normal.

Who to contact?


Which doctor should I contact for help?

You should not self-medicate, ObaGlazaPy draws your attention. This is a serious reason to contact the diagnostic center and undergo all the necessary tests. This will allow for a proper examination. You can find a good clinic in our catalog.

It is impossible to identify the cause solely by external signs. Therefore, the pediatrician will need to track the history of diseases that the baby has suffered from, starting from the first days of life. In this case, the doctor must clarify what diseases the parents had, as well as the characteristics of the child’s behavior, his regime, food intake, and more.

At the same time, the body is completely examined, not excluding tests (blood, urine, feces). Sometimes you need to take an x-ray of the organs in the chest cavity or perform an ultrasound of the tummy. It may be necessary to consult with specialists in cardiology, otolaryngology, gastroenterology or nephrology.

The child does not sleep well at night, the child grinds his teeth (bruxism): a behavioral feature or a disease?

Getting a full night and daytime sleep every day is a very important condition for the development of mental functions of a preschool child. If your child begins to have trouble falling asleep and wakes up frequently, you should take this as carefully as possible. We are engaged in restoring normal sleep in children. Correction or treatment depends on the causes of sleep difficulties and is determined during a consultation or after a scheduled examination, if necessary.

How long should a child sleep?

Child's ageDaytime sleep durationNight sleep duration
1 to 2 monthsabout 9 o'clockaround 18 o'clock
3 to 4 monthsabout 8-6 hoursabout 16 o'clock
7 to 9 monthsabout 4 hoursabout 13 o'clock
10 to 12 monthsabout 3 hoursabout 13 o'clock
From 1 to 1.5 yearsabout 3 hoursabout 12 hours
From 1.5 to 2 yearsabout 2.5 hoursaround 10-11 o'clock
From 2 to 3 yearsabout 2.5 – 2 hoursaround 10-11 o'clock
From 3 to 7 yearsabout 1.5 hours, optionalabout 10 o'clock
After 7 yearsDaytime naps are not necessaryat least 8-9 hours

Sleeping mode

. A child's normal sleep should proceed without interruption, without episodes of agitation associated with screaming or crying during sleep. The normal duration of falling asleep is about half an hour; if it lasts more than 30 minutes, you should pay attention to this and find out the reason. It is normal for a child to wake up early on weekends according to the routine adopted on weekdays. It is desirable that the biorhythm of the child’s life coincides with the biorhythm of the geographical time zone in which he lives. It is provided in nature that when it is dark outside, a person sleeps, and at dawn he wakes up, the same rhythm corresponds to the children's regime. For a preschooler, lights out should be no later than 10 p.m. It is not always possible for schoolchildren to maintain such a regime, because the load received at school increases disproportionately to the physiological capabilities of the children. But still, for the harmonious growth and development of a child, it is necessary to strive to adhere to the regime and have at least 8-9 hours of sleep. For a child under 10 years old, a sleep duration of 9-10 hours is absolutely normal and healthy.

Many children approaching school age refuse to sleep during the day; this is not always a violation of their sleep patterns; for some children, with a full night's sleep, the need for daytime sleep disappears. Provided that the lack of daytime sleep does not entail a change in the child’s well-being for the worse. One more aspect must be taken into account that for children under 4 years of age, daytime sleep is vital, since during this period of life the neural structure of the brain is actively being built and good sleep contributes to the most efficient functioning of the brain in the future.

Sleep consists of several stages (divided into phases). Complete rest, restoration of the nervous system, active metabolism and immunity occur mainly in the third and fourth phases of sleep. These phases are achieved only in night sleep, subject to timely falling asleep, sufficient duration and depth of sleep, and the absence of night awakenings.

A situation where a child does not sleep at night or
has difficulty falling asleep for a long time, often gets up, asks for something to drink or eat, or invents different activities for himself just to stay awake, can arise for many reasons.
Main reasons :

  • increased intracranial pressure (ICP);
  • increased level of anxiety;
  • a stressful situation or excessive nervous tension in response to something;
  • neurosis;
  • excessive workload of the child at school;
  • increased convulsive readiness of the cerebral cortex (recorded on the EEG);
  • pain in the abdomen or other area of ​​the body, itching, worms.

Behavioral factor.

It arises due to the attention deficit of adults who work all day and come home late, without devoting enough time to their child. As a result, the child falls asleep for a long time, because he wants to make up for the lack of communication with his parents and feel their physical and emotional presence next to him.

High level of anxiety in a child.

When a child cannot fall asleep, but having difficulty falling asleep, he often wakes up or sleeps shallowly, as the stress mechanisms of the nervous system continue to work, including defensive reactions and not allowing the child to fall asleep deeply.

The child screams in his sleep, walks, talks in his sleep.

Sleepwalking (somnambulism) is a state of incomplete awakening. At the time when the child should enter the deep stage of sleep, the process of brain inhibition occurs, but the process does not affect all areas of the brain, i.e. part of the brain remains awake or wakes up in the middle of the night. As a result, the child can sit up in bed, stand up, walk, scream, express emotions and even talk without waking up. Sleepwalking in children is usually quite treatable.

The child grinds his teeth in his sleep

. The main age when bruxism occurs is the period from 3 to 6 years. The peak of manifestation occurs at the age of five, when molars begin to erupt. The cause of teeth grinding can be difficulty breathing due to adenoids, ear or toothache and nasal congestion, abdominal pain and, in general, any physical discomfort.

Lack of adequate sleep can lead to serious problems for a child’s body. Such as a disorder of the nervous system, weakening of the immune system, disruption of the body’s usual mode of operation of all internal organs. It is necessary to treat your child's sleep as carefully as possible. Restoring normal night sleep in a child is, as a rule, a completely doable task.

treating a child who is not sleeping well first.

:

  1. Consultation with a pediatric neurologist. Typically, during the consultation, the cause of the sleep disorder will be clarified and treatment can be selected.
  2. If there are suspicions about chronic night pain anywhere, skin itching, nasal breathing problems, we will offer help from a doctor of the appropriate profile.
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