The proper way to disinfect a baby’s navel is to disinfect it with iodophor, three times from the inside out.
An infant’s umbilical cord is tied after birth and the cord wrap can be released after 24 hours. Sterilization of the umbilical cord is an important measure to prevent infantile cord infection.
To prevent infantile cord infection, you need to disinfect the wound by iodophor and keep it clean and dry. In disinfecting, a cotton swab is dipped in povidone-iodine and each time the swab is disinfected from the inside out, expanding the disinfection from the root of the umbilical cord outward 3 times.
If there is localized redness, swelling or discharge, it indicates that the umbilical cord is infected with umbilicitis. For mild umbilical infection, you can directly use iodophor to disinfect. For more serious umbilical infection, when there is much discharge, redness and swelling around the umbilicus or fever, it is necessary to go to the hospital in time for medical treatment.
If the redness and swelling are obvious, parents should take their infants to the hospital in time, and under the guidance of the doctor to carry out the correct method of disinfection of the baby’s navel, so as to avoid the emergence of infantile umbilical infection.