What if the baby keeps scratching the wound?

Babies always scratching the wound may be caused by the wound being more itchy or painful during the healing period. It can be improved by cutting the nails short, applying ice, topical anti-inflammatory drugs, and diverting attention. 1. Cutting the nails short: If the baby’s nails are long, it will increase the probability of infection when scratching the wound, so you should cut the nails short and smooth out the sharp cut surface of the nails. 2. Ice: is an effective means of analgesia and anti-itching, and at the same time can promote the elimination of wound edema, reduce the baby’s discomfort. Ice can be applied several times a day for five to ten minutes each time. 3. Topical anti-inflammatory drugs: the baby is always scratching the wound, it is very easy to cause wound infection, if the wound infection is not serious, you can use erythromycin ointment under the guidance of the doctor, to reduce the symptoms. If the infection is serious need to go to the surgical consultation, combined with the situation of wound cleaning. 4. transfer attention: the baby wound healing should provide a variety of entertainment to divert the baby’s attention, so that the baby does not put all the attention on the wound, so you can effectively avoid the old scratching wound. Babies always scratching wounds are recommended to consult a doctor in time in order to clarify the cause and carry out standardized treatment. The above medication needs to follow the doctor’s advice.