Bathing, it seems there is nothing to learn. In fact, life events, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea, food, drink, sleep, about the most important bath. Most of our ancestors’ traditions hold two attitudes towards bathing. There is the reverence of giving a bath to Huaqing Pond, and there is also the open-mindedness that the body is not stuffy or itchy.
With thousands of years of incense passed down, mothers today also have two opposing views on baby bathing. One from the mother’s mother from the true tradition, the baby’s golden body, fear not wind, more can not see water, belly bib, cotton monkey, outside and then wrapped in cotton, three nine days prickly heat; and then there is a mother by modern education, respect from the website or professor of brick guidance, three days a big bath, a small bath a day, dander have been like the March poplar, skin dry and cracked like a long drought of the lotus pond.
What is the right thing to do?
First of all, let’s understand the characteristics of infant skin
Sebum: It covers the surface of human skin and plays a protective, emulsifying, buffering, excreting, antibacterial and biological conditioning role. Shortly after birth, the total sebum content of infants is quite close to that of adults. About one month after birth, the total sebum amount begins to gradually decrease; in early childhood, the sebaceous glands are not developed and the amount of oil secretion is small, so infant skin is drier, so we should not wash too often to avoid the vicious cycle of more and more dryness.
Water content: the skin has no role in retaining water. The outermost layer of skin stratum corneum can protect the skin from external physical and chemical factors. Newborn skin water content of 74.5%, infants and children for 69.4%, the lowest adult water 64%.
PH: The skin PH is generally between 4.2 and 5.5. Newborns are close to neutral for two weeks, and the PH of the placenta is about 7.4, which cannot effectively inhibit bacterial reproduction and has a relatively low resistance to infection.
Sweating: Newborns have the same number of sweat glands as adults, but the number of sweat glands per unit body surface area is much higher than that of adults. Due to the lack of regulation ability, it is easy to sweat.
The baby’s skin is not well developed, if accidental abrasion is easy to secondary infection. Therefore, to the little baby bath, to master the “light, slow, soft”, the three words.
(1) room temperature requirements: the temperature of the room should be 26-28 degrees when bathing babies within 3 months. Bigger children, the temperature is better than 25 degrees, bathing water temperature is generally a little higher than the body temperature, 37-38 degrees. Children with eczema generally bathe at 37 degrees in winter, not too high.
(2) Bathing with warm water, avoid using strong alkaline bathing products to remove fat, choose acidic bathing products to keep the skin clean and reduce the chance of secondary infection.
(3) Pay special attention to cleaning between the folds of the skin. The bathing agent must be rinsed off. After washing, wipe dry the baby’s body and then apply non-oily emollient cream so as not to hinder the normal breathing of the skin.
(4) Wash daily. Careful washing of the head will remove the scabs. If the scab has become hard and stuck to the head, apply olive oil to the affected area to soften it before washing.
(5) Choose hypoallergenic or anti-allergenic preparations for skin care products, and it is best to measure skin sensitivity behind the ear and on the inner forearm to see how the skin care products used react before applying them to a large area.
(6) Cut your child’s nails regularly to avoid scratching the affected area to prevent secondary infection.
I read an article on washing baby’s face on the internet, and it is transferred here.
Step1:Clear the wash basin, pour in the right amount of warm water and debug the water temperature (use a water thermometer or your inner wrist to test).
Step2:Let the baby lie flat on the bed, or pick up, you face the baby, the left palm of your hand to hold the baby’s head and neck.
Step3:Wet a small towel with your right hand first, put it in your palm and squeeze out the excess water, then shake the towel away.
Step4:When washing the eyes, use the two small corners of the small towel to wash from the inside out.
Step5:The other two remaining corners wash the ears and ear holes respectively.
Step6:Wash the towel or change a clean towel and then wipe the remaining parts of the forehead, cheeks, corners of the mouth, jaw and neck.
Step7:Finally check if there is any residual water in the ears, eyes, mouth and nose, then use a clean cotton swab to suck it up.
Very thoughtful, must be written by a mother with a delicate mind, very recommendable, praise!
We talk next: If the rash is not very obvious, or healthy baby, we recommend frequent bathing to promote metabolism, wash away the aging epidermal dirt, and promote skin absorption and moisturization. If the child’s eczema is heavy, oozing crust is more obvious, this kind of advice to use Chinese medicine class sweat wash, water temperature should not be too high, with a soft towel or gauze gently dip wash the affected area, not only can wash away the scab and exudate, but also hydrate the skin, promote drug absorption, the efficacy increases a lot. Recommend two single prescriptions.
1. Single herbs for external washing
Add 1000ml of water to 50g of Amaranthus, boil it over low heat for 15min, filter and remove the residue, and wash the area with sterilized gauze soaked in the liquid, twice a day.
Soak 20g of wild chrysanthemum in water for 15min, boil it for 10min, make the water temperature to 28℃, and bathe the child for 10min. then use wet gauze for 5min, 2 times a day.
2.Complex external wash.
Nitro alum lotion: 20g of mannitol, 15g of alum, 15g of borax and 500ml of water, external washing or local cold wet compresses.
Talk about the skills of cold compresses, cold compresses as the name implies the solution must be cool, winter is relatively simple, room temperature can be general, summer can be put in the refrigerator for a quarter of an hour, with two or three pieces of gauze, wet in the solution, wring to not drip when covered in the affected area, a few minutes after another piece of gauze alternately, generally a treatment for half an hour. A day can be obvious oozing relief.
Of course after washing the skin is more sensitive and fragile, we need to use the oil to moisturize and skin care. Love the kitchen mothers are no stranger to steamed eggs, take 2-3 eggs, steam and cook them on the pot, take out the yolk, frying spoon put a little sesame oil, boil the paste, with the preparation of egg yolk oil, apply to the affected area, not only eczema, for mild burns, diaper dermatitis have a very good effect of muscle growth and pain relief.
If the inflammation is obvious, local redness and oozing, you can make your own at home a Huang Lian Zi Cao oil method is roughly the same. (Add 30g of Chinese herbal medicine Comfrey, 30g of Yellow Herb, 30g of Licorice to 500g of sesame oil, heat and boil for 15min, stop the fire, soak for 24h, then strain through gauze to remove the residue, put in a container for sterilization).
Summary.
Children’s skin is delicate, children can be moderate bathing, pay attention to gentle movements and environmental conditions, pay attention to protect the skin barrier, skin care and moisturizing. Babies with eczema or infections are recommended to be washed with sweat of Chinese herbs to clear heat and detoxify the toxins, and cold compresses are needed for obvious oozing.
Mom is the best doctor for her child, let us wash the child out of clean, more to wash out of health!