Dziecko zgrzytając zębami we śnie - przyczyny, co robić

Bruxism or gnashing of teeth - most often manifested in children during a night's sleep.The causes of bruxism lie in neuropsychic disorders and internal diseases.Let's try to understand why the child grinds his teeth, and what to do if there is a night scraping.

There are several factors that, in combination or separately, affect the baby's body and cause gnashing in a dream. All the possible causes of nocturnal bruxism can be combined with one common feature: something bothers .The task of the parent is to deal with the cause of the anxiety and to eliminate its impact.What can disturb your child?

Bruxism and neuropsychic experiences

Nervous experiences, stresses, overstrain in the day are expressed in uncontrollable scraping at night.

In the list of factors that cause bruxism in children in a dream, neuropsychiatric experiences occupy No. 1.

• frightened look, uncertain gait, hunched posture;
• the child gnaws nails;
• unexpectedly strong negative reaction of crying to slight irritations;
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• often clenched jaws;
• the child in his sleep hides his thumb inside the cam;
• Obsessive repetitive movements: uncontrolled rocking of the legs( sitting on a chair), twitching of the eyebrows, eyelids, sneezing with a nose without signs of a cold, coughing without the presence of a disease;
• small assiduity, inability to concentrate;
• restless sleep, twitching of limbs in a dream, frequent awakening from nightmares, night fears.

These signs of childhood neuroses require careful consideration of the parents and, possibly, treatment.If it slides in a dream accompanied by the above symptoms during the day, then the causes of bruxism - in neurosis, stress, hidden or obvious mental experiences.What to do?

The most important remedy is to surround the child with love and care.Accept and love him unconditionally, do not evaluate his personality negatively( you are bad), and give, if necessary, a negative evaluation of his actions( your act is bad).

Exclude the cry in the presence of the child, do not pour out your irritability and anger on it, your failures at work or in your personal life.

Understand the possible stress in school or kindergarten.Talk with the teacher or educator about the situation in the children's team, possible resentment, turmoil.

Consult with a psychologist, develop the right tactics of behavior, in every possible way instill confidence in the child and increase his self-esteem.

Teeth grinding at night and internal diseases

If the child grinds his teeth at night in the absence of the above signs of neurosis, then the cause is in internal diseases.Such gnashing, caused by internal pain sensations, is possible not only in the night in a dream, but also in the daytime.Grinding of teeth at night manifests more often than the daytime due to education and the availability of self-control, generally accepted norms of behavior.

Than your baby or an adult child, a teenager, can be sick - he will definitely find out a medical examination.A number of alternative medicine methods( iridodiagnostics according to the iris of the eye, computer diagnostics) allow to determine the presence of abnormalities in various organs and systems without lengthy visits to different doctors and without a large number of tests.If desired, you can confirm the diagnosis with a physician or specialist( gastroenterologist, nephrologist, neuropathologist, otolaryngologist), during a medical examination( urine, blood and feces, ultrasound examination).

Often, bruxism in children appears in sleep with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract( GI tract).

Night scraping and worms

It is important to know that most of the children's gastrointestinal diagnoses are related to the presence of helminths.What to do in this case?

The fact that a child grinds his teeth at night or day due to the presence of worms is not confirmed by official medicine.However, in most cases, gnashing in the dream disappears after antihelminthic therapy.In this case, the general condition, immunity improves, the allergic reaction decreases.What else confirms the presence of helminths in the body?

The activity of worms disrupts the microflora of the organ in which they settled( intestines, liver, lung cavity), causing unreasonable nausea, pallor, lack of appetite, an unreasonable dry cough.In the process of vital activity helminths release toxic substances, as a result of which the child shows signs of allergy.Significantly reduced immunity, there are frequent colds, viral infections.Than to treat the child?

Chemicals against helminthic invasions are toxic.If you use a pharmacy, you need a triple use of pyrantel or another anthelminthic drug with a break of 10-11 days.The toxic agent only affects adult worms, without affecting capsules with larvae.Therefore, repeated use of the drug is necessary in order to neutralize the hatched helminths.

From natural remedies, pumpkin seed and wormwood are most effective. Pumpkin seeds are ground into powder and given to children twice a day.Take pumpkin powder from small doses( at the tip of a spoon), increasing it to a third of a teaspoonful.If wormwood is used, it is consumed together with a small amount of honey to hide a strong bitterness.The course of treatment is a month.It is recommended to repeat antiglastic therapy 4-5 months later.

The causes of the appearance of bruxism in a dream are different.Identify and eliminate the factors that cause gnashing of teeth, it is possible and necessary.This will ensure not only the preservation of tooth enamel, but also the further normal growth and development of the child.