Can babies sleep on cool mats? In the hot summer, a cooler is a must for a good night’s sleep. For babies with delicate skin, can they sleep on a cooler? Will sleeping on a cooler affect your baby’s health? What diseases can occur? How to choose the right mat for your baby? How to prevent diseases caused by the cooler? At present, there are many kinds of cool mats on the market. In terms of the material of the mat, the common ones are ice mat, jade mat, bamboo mat, cowhide mat, rattan mat, bamboo charcoal mat and grass mat. Our babies often turn around and change position after sleeping, and the cool mat that is very cold to the touch will make the baby’s skin change temperature differently and cause colds easily. Therefore, among the above-mentioned cool mats, ice cool mats use special potions to make people feel particularly cold, and jade cool mats are also particularly cold to the touch when they first come into contact, which is not suitable for our babies. Some bamboo mats in the air conditioning environment, the touch is also particularly cold, therefore, when using air conditioning, it is best to choose a cool mat with a mild touch, such as cowhide mats, rattan mats, grass mats; bamboo charcoal mat for adults with heavy body odor. How to choose a cooler for your baby? To choose a cooler for your baby, you should not only choose the material for the cooler, but also pay attention to choosing a good quality cooler. Every summer, we encounter several cases of patients whose hair turns golden brown on the pillow after sleeping on a cool mat. Parents are worried to bring their children to the clinic, and when asked carefully, they bought a new mat that year. In order to make the mat look more evenly colored, the manufacturer may have used some decolorizing agents, and the child did not sleep on the pillow, but directly on the mat, making the hair on the pillow decolorize because of the contact with the mat, gradually becoming golden. Bamboo mat there is a thicker plastic tube string woven bamboo made of “Mahjong mat”, the plastic tube at high temperatures can volatile toxic substances, is not conducive to the health of the baby, is not recommended. Straw mat is the oldest and most inexpensive mat, its texture is soft, with a smell of grass, very popular. However, the traditional straw mat has a strong water absorption capacity and poor antiseptic ability, and is particularly prone to mites, which can easily cause mite dermatitis. The baby’s skin is delicate and most vulnerable to mites. The key to preventing mat dermatitis is to do a good job of cleaning and disinfecting the mat with high temperature (such as scalding with boiling water) before using it, and then put it under the sun to remove the chemical substances such as decolorizers and polishers that remain in the manufacturing process, which can also kill allergens such as dust mites or insect eggs in the mat fiber and reduce the occurrence of contact dermatitis. It should be washed and dried frequently during normal use. Because the salt in our sweat is deposited in the cooler fiber, it will make it easier for the cooler to absorb moisture from the air, making it moist for a long time, and a warm and humid environment is the best condition for dust mites to breed; and the dander shed by our body is the favorite food of dust mites. Therefore, the best preventive measure to reduce dust mites is to wipe and wash once a day and sunbathe once a week. Once suffering from “cooler dermatitis”, try to reduce scratching, take some oral anti-itch and anti-allergic drugs, such as loratadine, cyproheptadine, etc., and use topical insecticide and anti-itch lotion or ointment, which can well relieve the symptoms. At the same time, the cooler should be disinfected and cleaned at high temperature to remove dust mites and chemicals to ensure our skin health.