Newborns, especially premature babies, are still weak in self-regulation and need a relatively moderate and constant ambient temperature to maintain a normal body temperature, and some premature babies need to be put in a warmer for a while. However, parents seem to be compulsive about dressing their children, always thinking that they will freeze and that the more clothes they wear, the better. If you wear less clothes, you will freeze, but now that the economy is better, this is basically not a problem. However, it is too common for children to wear too many clothes, and many parents would rather stuff a sweat-absorbing towel around their children’s necks than take off a piece of clothing for their children, and once autumn comes, the child is dressed like a dumpling. Everything is too much, too little, too much clothing will damage the health of children. Too much clothing, the child will get sick? For newborns and infants, the most serious consequence of wearing too much clothing is muffled fever syndrome. The child’s body is wrapped in thick clothes, the heat generated by the child can not be distributed, the temperature in the clothes and blankets will become higher and higher, the child is small, and can not tell and struggle, the long-lasting high temperature leads to high fever, dehydration, lack of oxygen, coma, and even respiratory and circulatory failure, this is the muffled fever syndrome. This is a disease with Chinese characteristics, especially common in economically and culturally backward areas, and many children die every year because of it, and some children are rescued but left with brain damage. Searching the Internet for “muffled fever syndrome”, you can see many such heartbreaking cases. In addition to the serious consequences of fever syndrome, too much clothing can also restrict the child’s limb movement, making the child’s motor development lag. There is a disease called developmental hip dislocation, the incidence of which is significantly higher in the north than in the south, which may be related to the fact that children in the north wear more clothes and their lower limbs are fixed in an inappropriate position for a long time. Children’s metabolism is already more robust, too much clothing makes children more likely to sweat, prone to prickly heat, folliculitis and other skin diseases, these small foci of infection may also spread leading to soft tissue infections, and even cellulitis, just like the child mentioned at the beginning of the article. When a child has a cold or fever, covering the blanket is even more dangerous, as the heat cannot be distributed and may cause the body temperature to continue to rise, even to 42 degrees Celsius or more, and the large amount of sweating in a short period of time may also lead to dehydration and shock. Parents think that wearing more clothes can prevent their children from catching a cold, but they do not know that this will lead to children receiving less stimulation from cold air, and their bodies will be more vulnerable to climate changes and more likely to get sick. What is the best way to dress children? What is the most appropriate way to dress a child? Humans dress for two purposes: to cover their bodies and to keep them warm. When the temperature is high enough, above 24℃, there is no need for warmth in the waking state, and a single garment can be worn to cover the body, and the same applies to children. When the temperature is below 24℃, adults will adjust the number of pieces and thickness of clothing based on the signals from their temperature receptors all over the skin to sense the warmth and cold. Infants and children do not tell themselves, we can refer to a more practical principle: 1, children under one year old, than adults to wear one more (average thickness of) clothes. 2, more than one year old babies and children, body temperature regulation ability is basically the same as adults, you can refer to the same adults dress. 3, more than three years old children will be self-expressed warm and cold, as long as the child does not feel cold there is no need to wear more, you can feel the child’s palms and back, if it is warm, and the body does not sweat on the clothes are more appropriate. Love your child, you should let him dress comfortably, not let him wear more clothes. Raising parents’ awareness is the only way to reduce such tragedies, which is the meaning of science popularization, and I hope such science popularization can be seen by parents.