The proper way to sterilize a baby’s belly button

Baby navel disinfection method is to navel as the center, with a cotton swab dipped in iodophor solution to rotate in all directions, disinfection range up to the navel external diameter of about 5cm. Infant umbilical cord is not off before to do a good job of disinfection, you can use povidone-iodine disinfection, to the navel as the center, with a swab dipped in disinfectant solution to rotate in all directions, disinfection range up to the umbilicus external diameter of about 5cm, disinfection range should not be too small. Infants 10 ~ 14 days after birth, the umbilical cord stump will be naturally fall off, every day to do a good job of disinfection, after the umbilical cord off to always keep the umbilical cord stump clean and dry, try to avoid the occurrence of umbilical cord inflammation or the formation of abscess, baby umbilical cord umbilical cord inflammation to do a good job of disinfection, has formed an abscess, should be timely to the hospital to do incision and drainage to deal with. Usually avoid touching the baby’s navel with too much force, change diapers and pay attention not to scrape the navel.