Why do babies like to sleep?

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We know that after the baby is born, the sleeping time is very much, and many parents may not pay special attention at this time. In fact, if the sleeping time is too long, we need to be vigilant to avoid drowsiness. In fact, this drowsiness is beyond the normal physiological sleep time. It may be the symptom caused by some diseases, or it may be the signal of coma, so children's drowsiness should be paid attention to, so how does this neonatal drowsiness cause?

Why do babies like to sleep?

The first one is fever. Children's reaction to fever varies from person to person. Some are more excited, some show the state of drowsiness, there are drowsiness first, then fever. However, the general cold will not drowsiness, but the heat will be restored after the spirit.

There is hypoglycemia, early hypoglycemia can be manifested as drowsiness, most children did not eat the night before, in the early morning when drowsiness, can be accompanied by hypothermia and cold sweat, and pale complexion, and will develop into coma and convulsions.

There is encephalitis and meningitis, especially in the spring and autumn viral encephalitis prone season, or the summer encephalitis B epidemic areas, if children with high fever, accompanied by drowsiness and vomiting, should be alert to such diseases, need to do blood and cerebrospinal fluid tests. Severe patients will gradually go into a coma.

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Finally, we would like to say that side effects of some drugs can also lead to drowsiness, because some therapeutic drugs contain sedative effect, such as antidiarrheal mixture or drugs for treating cold and fever, children will have drowsiness after taking them.