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How to care for newborns
How to care for newborns

How to care for newborns? A baby is called a newborn in the first month after birth, and all newborns in this first month need special care. Because the baby's organs are still immature, let's follow me to see how to care for the newborn.

How to care for newborns 1 1, skin care

Newborns should try not to take a bath before the umbilical cord falls off, but should wipe their bodies with dry cleaning. After the umbilical cord falls off, you can bathe it. It is recommended to use non-irritating baby soap. After bathing, use a dry and soft towel to absorb the moisture on your body and apply a little powder to the wrinkles on your skin. Always dry your ass with a warm towel after changing diapers. Sometimes, the skin on your hips will turn red because of urine stimulation. At this time, you can apply a little sterile vegetable oil. When the buttocks are obviously red in cold season, you can also use a hair dryer to bake locally, 3 ~ 4 times a day, 5 ~ 10 minutes each time (the hair dryer should not be too close to the skin to prevent burns).

2, facial features nursing

Pay attention to the cleanness of face, mouth of external auditory canal and nostrils, but don't dig external auditory canal and nasal cavity. Because the oral mucosa is delicate and rich in blood vessels, it is easy to scratch and cause infection, so it is not allowed to scrub the oral cavity frequently, and it is not allowed to pick and grind the small white spots on the gums-epithelial beads (commonly known as "horse teeth" or "dead teeth") with needles, especially unclean needles, to prevent bacteria from entering the body from here and causing sepsis.

In the nursing of newborns, the introduction of facial features care and skin care mentioned above is the place that parents need to pay attention to, and in the process of nursing, the following items need to be avoided:

1, avoid using plastic film as baby diapers.

The plastic film is airtight. Wrapping a baby with it will directly affect the normal development of its body and skin, and the functions of discharging waste, secreting sweat, regulating body temperature and exhaling carbon dioxide will be hindered. Moreover, the film will age over time and stimulate the baby's skin to be red and painful. Once bacteria invade, it will infect and fester, and it will also cause septicemia and endanger life.

2. Avoid pinching the baby's face

Many parents pinch their mouths when giving medicine to their children because they don't want to eat it; Sometimes when parents tease their children, they also like to pinch their baby's face, which is wrong. Babies' parotid gland and parotid duct are repeatedly squeezed, which will cause diseases such as drooling and oral mucositis. Therefore, avoid pinching the baby's face.

3. Avoid letting babies spit among adults.

Many young parents always like to put their baby in the middle when they sleep. In fact, this is not good for the child's health. In the human body. The oxygen consumption of brain tissue is very large. In general, the younger the child is, the greater the proportion of brain oxygen consumption to the whole body oxygen consumption. Children sleep between their parents. It will make it in an extremely hypoxic environment, and there is a lot of carbon dioxide, which will make infants sleep unsteadily, have nightmares and cry in the middle of the night, which will directly hinder the normal growth and development of children.

4. Avoid washing baby clothes with washing powder.

The main component of washing powder is sodium alkylbenzene sulfonate. This substance has a strong inhibitory effect on the activities of amylase and pepsin in human body after entering human body. If the washing is not clean, it is easy to cause human poisoning. This will be harmful to the baby. Therefore, baby clothes should not be washed with washing powder.

How to care for newborns 2 1, oral cleaning

After the baby is born, clean the mouth quickly. The purpose of cleaning the mouth is to prevent the baby from accidentally inhaling amniotic fluid and causing pneumonia, but don't scrub the mouth hard. The newborn's oral skin is delicate to avoid accidental injury to the child.

2. Skin care

Special attention should be paid to the skin care of newborns, because the skin of newborns is delicate and easy to be scratched when touching sharp objects. Wear loose clothes at ordinary times and keep them dry and clean at any time.

3, umbilical cord care

Umbilical cord is the channel to obtain nutrition in fetal period. After the baby is born, pay special attention to the care of umbilical cord, keep it dry and clean, and diminish inflammation in time if there is inflammation.

4, sleep care

Newborns can only grow up healthily if they get enough sleep. Parents should give their babies good sleeping habits and correct sleeping posture.

5, eye cleaning

Newborns' eyes are also fragile, and foreign bodies in the corners of their eyes should be cleaned at any time. In order to avoid ophthalmia in newborns, 0.5% neomycin or 0.25% chloramphenicol should be used to clean eyes.

Step 6 keep the temperature constant

The newborn's ability to regulate body temperature is still very poor, so the newborn baby should stay indoors for a while before being held at natural temperature. The greenhouse temperature is controlled at 25 degrees, and the baby's body temperature is kept at 36.5 degrees.

7. Watch your posture

Parents should pay special attention to the posture when holding a newborn, and it is best not to let others hold it at will. Incorrect posture will have a bad influence on children's bone development.

8. A healthy environment

In the process of feeding the newborn, make sure the indoor air is fresh, don't make noise for the newborn, and let him have a healthy environment to rest.

9. Special physiological phenomena

Newborns have "horse teeth", baby girls secrete red foreign bodies in the vagina, and physiological jaundice of babies is normal. However, if these symptoms do not disappear for a long time, you need to seek medical attention immediately.

How to care for newborns? These are the nine aspects of nursing newborns that I introduced to you. When nursing newborns, none of the above nine aspects can be less. Usually, parents must give newborns a good living environment, keep indoor ventilation, and don't let the baby get too hot, because it is particularly easy to cause baby eczema. In addition, it is necessary to observe the baby's stool situation at ordinary times, because the stool situation can better judge whether the baby can better absorb breast milk or milk powder.