As the temperature rises in summer, the humidity in the air also increases, and the little bacteria get favorable conditions to reproduce and become more active. Mothers are very worried, in the end how to disinfect to protect the health of the baby?
Before mothers are busy killing the bacteria, let’s listen to the true confession of bacteria.
I am a small bacteria, I and my friends live with everyone every day, activities in everyone’s surroundings. Mothers will gnash their teeth at the mention of us and hate to kill us, but in fact, this is a little misunderstanding of us.
We are a big family. I have a lot of brothers and sisters, you know? Even each of you will have at least 1000 different kinds of bacteria on your body, we exist on the epithelial surface of everyone’s skin, mouth, respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract, etc. Can you believe it? The total number of cells in each of you on average is about 1013, while the total number of our bacteria on your body surface and in your body is around 1014, which means that our total is nearly ten times the total number of human cells. With that said, are moms ready to grab the disinfectant and wipe us out in one fell swoop?
Most of our bacteria are good for you, so don’t rush to destroy them yet!
In fact, most of us are very well behaved, those living in the body of everyone, is what we usually call the normal flora, from the birth of the baby slowly parasitic in the baby’s intestines, respiratory tract, etc., is part of the baby’s body. We coexist with the baby for a long time, and as soon as the baby is born, he or she slowly develops the appropriate immunity to us.
Some of us are actually beneficial to the healthy growth of the baby, for example, our little brother Bifidobacterium survives in the baby’s intestines, not only preventing other disease-causing bacteria from making a home there and multiplying, but also playing a role in maintaining the normal physiological functions of the baby’s intestines and even preventing diarrhea in babies, so these normal flora cannot and should not be killed.
However, this does not mean that the normal flora is not pathogenic, but that the baby has developed immunity against our bacteria in the process of coexisting with us for a long time, so that the baby and our parasitic bacteria are in a state of balance.
The “troublemakers” need targeted killing methods, but not the abuse of antibiotics
However, some of our siblings are naughty and will go where they shouldn’t. The immunity against the normal flora is limited for a given person, and if there is a major change in the ratio or number of normal flora or an invasion into the bloodstream where there was no bacteria, it can cause an infection. The “violation” of course is to “deduct points”, this time the mother must pay attention to the hospital to ask the doctor to check the baby, and then give the baby medicine for the condition. The reason is that the abuse of antibiotics will not only kill the “beneficial” bacteria in the baby’s body, but may also make the real culprit resistant to antibiotics and “get away with it”.
There are simple ways to eliminate the “scum” among us.
Of course, we do have some scum, such as most of the bacteria that exist on the surface of the human body, their presence is a great threat to the health of the baby, causing the baby to get sick is from this part of the body of bacteria. Like counting money in our daily life, getting on the railings or touching the patient will be contaminated with bacteria, these bacteria are not beneficial to the baby at all and should be removed. Therefore, mothers who go out, it is best to wash their faces and hands when they get home and change into their home clothes before they come into close contact with their babies to avoid bringing these bacteria to their babies. However, there is no need to use disinfectants to wash your hands and face, running water and general antibacterial soap can completely serve the purpose of removing these bacteria.
How can we keep our babies and our germs at peace?
Now some mothers think that they must make the baby around very “clean”, a bacteria do not want, and some mothers think that too clean may not be good, “dirty” a little may be more healthy. In fact, these two ideas are not entirely correct. The newborn baby’s immune system is like a machine just off the line, we need to help them do some warm-up exercises to enhance the baby’s resistance, so appropriate exposure to some bacteria, the baby’s future healthy growth is very necessary; but if you encounter a lot of bacteria at once, the baby’s immune system overload is likely to threaten his health. So we should let our bacteria and the baby in a “who can not defeat who” balance, not without us, but also can not let us reproduce unrestrainedly.
So what can a mother do to achieve this balance in daily life?
What needs to be done.
1, baby bottles and other eating utensils are best cleaned immediately after use and disinfected, baby sterilizer works well, or high temperature disinfection can also be.
2, toys play for a long time, it is easy to get bacteria on them, so toys should be disinfected regularly. Plastic toys, blocks, etc., can be soaked in soap and then rinsed with water; fur toys and cloth toys are washed and dried in the washing machine, and then dried in the sun.
3, baby’s clothes are best washed in a special washing machine for babies, and after washing, they must be put in the sun to let ultraviolet light help kill bacteria. The baby’s bedding should also be dried in the sunlight regularly.
4, the living room should be opened every day to ventilate, often wipe the furniture and floor, when the weather is good try to take the baby outside to breathe fresh air, this will be beneficial to the health of the baby.
5, if there are people at home with infectious diseases, for example, a family member has bacillary dysentery, you should immediately disinfect the baby’s daily necessities, especially eating utensils strictly, to prevent the patient from touching the baby and the baby’s utensils, it is best to isolate the patient from the baby.
It is not necessary to do the following.
1. Disinfect your child’s eating utensils, including bottles and dishes, repeatedly several times a day. This excessive disinfection and cleanliness will result in the child’s body has not been able to establish a normal bacterial environment, but rather to allow pathogenic bacteria to take advantage of.
2. Wipe the floor and furniture with disinfectant drugs for a long time. If family members do not have patients with infectious diseases, it is not recommended that mothers use these disinfectant solutions, because these disinfectant supplies can be corrosive, and the smell of disinfectant solution in the home may also diffuse for a few days can not be dispersed, but the result is damage to the baby’s body, weakening the baby’s resistance.
3, do not allow children to contact people outside the family. For the sake of health, do not bring or take the baby to the public gathering place is necessary, especially some closed air circulation is not the best place to go, but the baby needs to contact different people, need social interaction, healthy people and baby face to face together, will not bring harm to the child’s body.