And now a joyful event happened.You are standing on the threshold of your house, clutching in such an embrace so dear to you a bundle of happiness, wrapped in a blanket with ruches. There were nine difficult months of waiting behind, agonizing fights and births, a joyous noisy discharge from the maternity hospital. In your head, thoughts and advice, received from both medical personnel and grandmothers and aunts, are gradually beginning to fit. At first, young parents are afraid to go to their newborn baby, for fear of harming him, to hurt. That is why the question arises before them:
"than to process the navel of the newborn."Under the supervision of a doctor, this rather simple procedure did not cause questions, but left alone, parents begin to panic. How to take care of the baby's belly button to prevent infection and accelerate healing?
Treatment of the navel of the newborn
Approaches to the question of how to process the navelnewborn, are constantly changing. Until recently, neonatologists - doctors who watched children for up to a month, advised to treat the wound with alcohol-containing solutions (green or iodine). Today, medicine recommends: before you process the navel of the newborn, you need to organize a baby air bath. This is useful not only for the umbilical wound, but for the whole organism. Frequent air baths will help to avoid diaper rash and sweating. Treatment of the navel is best done in the evening before bedtime. Pre-toddler must be bathed. In the water, add decoctions of herbs such as chamomile or calendula. After bathing, proceed to the treatment. For this you can use a solution of potassium permanganate or zelenok. Before processing the navel
newborn by these means, flush the woundwith the help of hydrogen peroxide. Next, with a cotton swab, lighten the baby's navels with a dark solution of potassium permanganate or zelenka. Pay special attention to places where the umbilical cord is just starting to fall off: it is very important that the solution gets under the drying umbilical cord, and in no case can you separate it yourself. Doubt, than to process a belly-button of the newborn, what to choose - potassium permanganate or zelenok? Address this question to your health visitor or a district pediatrician. They will help to make the right choice.
General recommendations for the care of newborns
Care of the newborn is quite simple, eachMother intuitively feels what her baby needs at one time or another. However, a number of general recommendations will help young parents familiarize themselves with a new family member:
- Diapers.Try to minimize your child's stay in the diaper as much as possible. Of course, at night and for a walk a diaper is a completely irreplaceable thing, but in the daytime the child will be better off without it. After all, for the normal development of the reproductive system can not overheat the genitals of children (especially boys), and body temperature in a dry diaper, half a degree-degrees above body temperature. After the child pee, the temperature increases by another degree.
- Skin care is simple.It is enough to make sure that there are no intertrigo and small crevices in the folds. In case such a trouble does happen, do not be discouraged. Treat the damaged skin with special ointment from diaper rash (you will be recommended in the maternity hospital).
- To care for ears, nose and eyes, use special children's cotton swabs, sterile cotton swabs, turundochki. Rinse with warm, boiled water.
