What procedures need to be carried out that the skin of the baby remained clear and healthy? What needs to be done to avoid an intertrigo? How it is correct to change a diaper? These and other similar questions disturb future mothers. Read answers to them in article.
Replacement of diapers. Timely and correct change of a diaper - the most important for maintaining health of skin of the kid. Your choice - whether you will use disposable diapers and reusable. Both in that, and in other option there are pluses. Reusable diapers cost expensive, after use you wash them, dry and again dress on the child. You need to have several pieces that by the time of the next change of a diaper the previous washed managed to dry. You can sew independently gauze reusable diaper. So our mothers did, and now it becomes fashionable again. It looks as a triangle from several layers of a gauze.
You just throw out a disposable diaper after use. Therefore such diapers you have to have rather large supply. It is convenient to buy such diapers by big packs. But it only when you pick up the brand suitable your child. On diapers there is an allergy too.
It is obligatory to change a diaper at each chair of the baby. And whether here decide to change it after each urination. The contact of skin of the child with urine is less, the probability of emergence of an intertrigo is less. Cheaper diapers become damp already at the first urination of the kid. More expensive hold moisture inside, without allowing it to adjoin to skin.
The newborn can have a chair up to 12 times a day, that is it is necessary to change a diaper at each feeding of the kid (each 2-3 hours), and even is more often. Consider that during sucking there is a relaxation of sphincters, during feeding gases and a chair well depart. Therefore at an opportunity it is better to change a diaper after feeding. Though it is not really convenient if your kid likes to fall asleep at meal time.
Skin clarification. At each change of a diaper it is necessary to purify skin of the baby. You can use special wet towel wipes or the cotton wool which is simply moistened in water. Perhaps, also to wash away the child under a water jet. But when it comes to the newborn to do it extremely inconveniently: mom's hand still unsteady. It is obligatory to wash away girls movements in front back. It is necessary to avoid hit of dirt in a female reproductive system. The boy can be set up under a water jet and a bottom.
When you lie with the baby in postnatal office, you have to have many wet towel wipes. In the first days after the birth at the kid the so-called ""first-born chair"" or meconium - the dense green material which was in intestines till the birth will depart. This chair much more dense and sticky, than what will be from food breast milk. The easiest to wash a first-born chair water with children's soap. But in maternity hospital usually to do it very inconveniently: sinks are more provided for washing of hands, than a podmyvaniye of children. Besides often young mothers just are afraid to hold the kid on hands, without saying about doing some manipulations with him to a canopy. You can ask the nurse to show how it is correct to wash away the kid. But every time you will not call her. Therefore it is the most convenient to use wet towel wipes. To purify leather of the kid from a first-born chair, napkins it is necessary much.
Protection of skin. Skin of babies is very sensitive. At the increased humidity and without air (first of all – in a diaper) easily there is intertrigo. Especially often they happen in places of folds. An intertrigo looks as red rashes or heat-spots. They can appear not only under a diaper, but everywhere where to skin of the kid the air access is complicated (on a neck, for example). You remember, it is much easier for intertrigo of the kid to prevent, than to treat. Therefore skin of the kid should be protected. For this purpose it is possible to use oil. It will be suitable for chubby kids and for kids with dry skin. It is especially carefully necessary to coat with oil places of folds not only under a diaper, but also on a neck, in armpits and in places of bends of extremities.
Use as well protective cream under a diaper. It is necessary to apply it to the cleaned skin under a diaper. Cream it is obligatory to smear not everything at each change of a diaper. The protective layer of some creams remains several hours even at skin clarification by napkins. It is good if as a part of cream there is a zinc. He well removes inflammation on skin. There is a zinc ointment, it is necessary to use it only at a strong intertrigo and is very accurate: it strongly dries skin. As soon as an intertrigo passes, it is better to use cream which not only protects, but also humidifies.
To avoid an intertrigo, as well as to treat them, air bathtubs will help. When the kid is awake, leave him naked at least for several minutes. It also is way of hardening of the kid. Therefore you should not turn on before undressing of the child at full capacity the heater; let temperature in the room will be such as always.
Thus, the basic moments of care for skin of the newborn is a clarification, protection and timely hygiene. If your kid is dry and clean, then emergence of problems with skin at the newborn is minimized.