DOES YOUR CHILD OVERHEAT??

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Hi new mom here my daughter diagnosed 6 months ago she runs round the house too hot all the time we have windows doors open all the time. we have been told recent research has discovered aspies have problems regulating body temprature???

we cant find any info at all can anyone enlighten us. sometimes she feels warm sometimes shes not .
Shes 10 yrs could this be conected to first stages of puberty???

AS here with a spectrum child who is only 2.5

We both get so hot all the time.

My house is 71 degrees max, and neither one of us wear anything but boxer shorts and a diaper (respectivly). In fact we recently moved to a cooler climate because we could not stand the heat.

We both sweat all night long regardless of how cold the room is.

I'm always cold. . .

I find warm weather tremendously unpleasant. I also have a grown daughter who cannot sweat, and who thus is warm much more quickly than most. She has to be quite careful about physical exertion and also the ambient temperature. When she was young she would run pretty high fevers for no apparent reason.

Don't know if that helps - not sure it has anything to do with us being Aspies.

Wow! I never knew thermoregulation difficulties could be related to Asperger's but it explains a lot!

My 9 year old and 7 year old sons who have Asperger's both sweat heavily, and both get really cold when they go swimming. Their lips go blue and they shiver when others are feeling comfortable.

I learn something new everytime I go on WP!

Helen

I'm AS and I have terrible problems with heat, especially when you add in humidity. Heck, I even sweat like mad when it's cold an humid which then makes me wet and cold- it's miserable. Humidity is my enemy. I also get cold easily. My AS 9 y/o daughter overheats easily and also gets cold easily- blue lips in the pool too, while my 4 y/o NT daughter is just fine in a pool. Suspected AS 5 y/o is always too hot or cold too- much like AS daughter and myself.

My 10 year old aspie is always hot. He sweats a lot too.
If he gets cold he can not sit still he has to keep moving and if he gets too hot he becomes irritable and cranky. I will have to read up on this not being able to regulate body temps. it will help

I always get way to hot - added to that I have trouble breathe when there isn't enough moisture in the air, so heat makes me doubly miserably. My feet get the hottest. It doesn't matter how cold it is at night I have to have my feet sticking out of the blankets.

My bf is also AS and he's easily cold. We can be in the same room for hours and when he touches me he says I'm hot, and I find him to feel very cold.

We've learned to compromise where he leaves the window open for me and untucks the blankets on my side of the bed so my feet stick out. Then he gets two blankets plus my body heat, whereas I jsut get a thin blanket thats almost like a sheet

My son feels hot but doesn't complain about it. He doesn't have a fever when he's hot either. He's just hot, like he's a conductor or something. If he gets in bed with us, I'm sweating. He loves being cold.
When he was little and first taking showers alone, he'd take cold showers. Now he takes warm showers.

I can't believe it! I've always wondered why my son is so hot all the time - he's also suffered with high temperatures for no apparant reason throughout his life. He hates hot summers and is so glad now winter is here.

I never associated it with AS until now - I wonder if any research has been done into it?

My daughter, when she sleeps, will be drenched in sweat with her hair matted to her face and head. She overheats very easily in the warm weather, so we dress her cool, play in the shade and supply plentiful water and popcicles. My son seems less affected. My husband struggles with even a mild temperature increase. I went so far as to have a heat stroke at age 5 when my parents took me to Florida and thought I was just whining too much about the heat. At the ER, my temp was over 105 (I usually run low, around 96.8 and often don't show actual fever, so this was especially severe) and before they got me stabilized I almost died.

As a child, I wondered at how kids wore turtlenecks and sweaters when I was heated up in a t-shirt. These days I am always freezing cold, have been through my later teens years onward. I don't handle anything below 50 or above 85-90 very well, but it's more the cold that will shut me down - cold HURTS.

thanks for the feedback at least now we know were not alone i hope there is more research done on this . its good to go on these sites and get some advice and info from families that go through the same day to day problems as us. and also aspies who help us understand how our daughter is feeling. pity we couldnt find anything nearer home were in glasgow scotland.

I too really suffer with the heat and humidity and this has been the case since I was a baby. Mum used to have me fainting numerous times as a toddler once the humidity got above 70% and I easily overheat now.

There seems to be something that causes us to either overheat or feel the cold more so than most people. I also don't mind it being hotter if the humidity is low but anything above 35celsius is still hard to handle.

Mum has observed if I ever had a meltdown, I would be feverish and delerious so maybe strong emotions can also cause temperature regulation to break down.