“Neonatal sepsis” may sound scary, but it is a curable disease. In neonatal units, we often encounter children with sepsis, but the presentation varies. Because of its atypical presentation and lack of specificity, neonatal sepsis is often overlooked by parents. Parents of newborns are advised to pay attention to the following points: 1. Protect and care for the baby’s umbilicus to prevent infection. Clean the umbilicus daily with iodophor and keep it dry until the umbilical stump falls off; do not apply gentian violet. The umbilical cord coated with gentian violet, the surface is dry, but the inside of the umbilical cord is moist, it can easily lead to purulent umbilicus and not easily detected for a while, delaying treatment, which is what moms and dads should pay special attention to; 2, abandon picking horse teeth, scraping pig hair wind, squeezing nipples and other bad folklore; 3, if the baby has a skin soft tissue infection, please seek medical attention in a timely manner, the disease progresses rapidly and is very likely to cause systemic infection; 4, plain healthy baby If the baby does not eat, does not cry, does not move, does not look good (may be accompanied by fever or temperature does not rise), please consult a doctor promptly; 5, if the mother has an infection in late pregnancy, or premature rupture of membranes at birth more than 18 hours need to be alert; delivery items need to be strictly disinfected; 6, before relatives visit and touch the baby, ask them to wash their hands, less kissing; adults with colds need to be relatively isolated from the baby; 7, diligent bathing, changing clothes, often sterilize the milk utensils The baby’s personal hygiene, to do early detection of problems. Newborn sepsis performance can be mild or severe, the lighter can be completely cured, the heavier even produce infectious shock, death! So, I hope new parents can give more professional and careful care to their newborn babies! Seven newborn wrong care actions or become a baby killer 1, let the newborn sit upright This behavior is absolutely strictly prohibited for newborns, because at this time the newborn’s spine is very fragile, forced upright will lead to the spine can even bend deformation, 3 months old baby to vertical upright. 2, to the baby to do yoga or martial arts These intense movements will only make the bones have not yet fully developed infants caused harm, may also lead to infants brain hemorrhage or retinal problems. 3, cold baths for babies in winter The baby’s body resistance is poor, if the direct rinse with cold water, easy to cause the doll sick with the flu. It is not recommended to give too small babies in the winter cold bath. 4, shaking the baby In order to lull the baby to sleep, many adults like to shake the baby. In fact, the baby is shaken by you, not asleep. Shaking a small baby can easily damage the muscles and ligaments of their neck, and in serious cases, even sprain the baby’s neck. And baby brain tissue like “tofu” fragile, excessive frequent shaking lead to brain hemorrhage; In addition, infants skull base and the inner surface is smooth, brain tissue is not very solid, subject to strong external force when easy to shake, the brain surface and the veins under the skull connected to the blood vessels will also shake. The shaking brain tissue is easily “torn” by the sudden change of external force, triggering emergencies such as subdural or subsphenoidal hemorrhage. 5, leg binding Many older generations believe that children’s legs are naturally bent and need to be corrected by leg binding. Early childhood education experts tell you, in fact, bundling way wrapped infants so that the hip joint in a long-term extension position, is not conducive to the stability of the infant hip joint, prone to hip dysplasia, with the day, month or age gradually appear semi-dislocation, if not treated in a timely manner may lead to disability. 6, feeding cold water Some families indifferently let the little baby drink cold water, summer also let eat ice cream, popsicles, etc., because the baby’s digestive system is not perfect, once the cold water is easy to lead to diarrhea. 7, sleeping position fixed pillow Small babies are prone to be next to the fixed pillow blocking the mouth and nose caused by suffocation. And fixed sleeping posture, is not conducive to the child’s physical development. 8, the baby’s mouth is not washed clean In recent years, the baby was bitten by the mouse news after news, if the child’s face, mouth, chin stained with milk powder and other food, most likely to lure mice, so be sure to wash the child’s face and hands clean and then sleep, usually need to pay attention to whether there are mice at home, and do a good job of rodent control. 9, to the baby wear open crotch pants Some parents in order to make the baby pee and poop convenient, save the labor of adults, to the baby wear open crotch pants, exposing the buttocks, genital organs. Crotch pants are very likely to lead to genital infections in female babies, because the vulva of female babies is easily infected due to physiological reasons, suffering from urethritis, cystitis and urinary tract infections. Once the infection is received, the baby will cry and suffer a lot. 10, give baby medicine baby young medicine does not cooperate, in order to let the baby quickly recover, anxious parents take the way to instill medicine. Because the baby will cry and struggle in the process of instillation, not only will the drug spit out, but also easy to cause the dysfunction of the epiglottis cartilage automatically closed, will force its mouth instead of nasal breathing, the drug instilled in, young children are often too late to swallow, bad drugs will be inhaled with the gas into the trachea caused by asphyxiation.