Infant health care methods 1. Infant health care method: fontanel.
Is the fontanel the skull of a newborn baby? The window? . Brain tissue is soft and needs the protection of bone and skull. But for a closed skull, fontanel is an open space above it, so it is easy to be invaded by external unfavorable factors. Recently, many novice parents are afraid to touch and clean the fontanel because they don't know much about it, which leads to dirt accumulation, easy to cause baby scalp infection, and then pathogens penetrate the fontanel without bone structure to cause meningitis and encephalitis, so the daily cleaning and nursing of fontanel is very important. Love your baby's wisdom? Door?
Daily nursing
1. Don't give your baby a pillow made of too hard material, such as mung bean pillow and sand pillow, or it will easily cause the baby's head to deform.
2. Don't let your baby sleep. If you want your baby's head to be perfect, you should always turn him over and change his sleeping position. Babies like light. If he is used to sleeping on one side, he can attract him with the light on the other side.
3. Pay attention to the furniture at home to avoid sharp and hard corners hurting the baby's head.
4. If the baby scratches the scalp carelessly, it should be disinfected with alcohol cotton balls immediately to prevent infection.
Wearing a thick hat when going out in winter can protect the fontanel and reduce heat loss.
Pay attention to cleanliness
1. You can clean the fontanel when taking a bath, and you can use baby-specific shampoo instead of strong alkali soap, so as not to stimulate the scalp to induce eczema or aggravate eczema.
2. When cleaning, put your fingers flat at the fontanel and rub gently. Do not press or scratch hard, and do not scratch the fontanel with hard objects.
3. If there is dirt at the fontanel, you can steam it with sesame oil or refined oil and soak it for 2 ~ 3 hours. When the dirt becomes soft, clean it with a sterile cotton ball according to the growth direction of the hair, and apply baby powder after washing.
Second, infant health care methods: milk scab
The sebaceous glands in the scalp of newborn babies are vigorous. If it is not cleaned in time, these secretions will accumulate with the dirt on the baby's scalp. After a long time, it will form a thick layer of milk scab, which looks dirty and makes people uncomfortable.
Some mothers really want to remove the baby, but they are afraid of hurting the baby's fontanel and dare not start; Moreover, some mothers will choose to dig hard or apply herbs externally, especially near their foreheads, which is very dangerous.
Vegetable oil carding
1. In order to ensure the cleanliness of vegetable oil, it is generally necessary to heat and disinfect the vegetable oil first and let it cool for later use. In addition, some baby oil or baby lotion based on vegetable oil is also a good choice, which can help the baby clean the scab.
2. When cleaning the scalp scab for the baby, first apply the cooled clean vegetable oil to the surface of the scalp scab. Don't wash off the oil immediately. If you need to stay for several hours, the scalp scab will soften and the thinner scalp scab will naturally fall off. For thick scalp scabs, it is necessary to apply more vegetable oil and wait for a while.
3. When the scalp scab is soft and does not fall off, you can comb it slowly and gently with a small comb, and the thick scalp scab will fall off, and then wash off the oil on your head with baby soap and warm water.
Scab removal nursing
1. Pay attention to gentle movements when cleaning, do not dig hard with fingernails, and do not scrape with a comb, so as not to damage the scalp and cause infection.
2. The baby's skull must also be cleaned. As long as you pay attention to the gentleness of your movements, you won't hurt your baby. Pay attention to dry the baby's head with a dry towel after washing. Wear a small hat or cover your head with a towel after washing in winter to prevent your baby from catching cold.
Third, infant health care methods: umbilical cord
After the baby umbilical cord is ligated, it will form a natural wound, which is the best place for bacteria to nourish. If you don't pay attention to disinfection at ordinary times, it is easy to get infected.
Dear novice parents, don't be afraid to do it. Daily umbilical therapy nursing is a good communication process between you and your baby. You will find that the baby changes every day, and the remaining umbilical cord will fall off safely under your careful care.
Dry as soon as possible
24 hours after the baby is born, open the gauze wrapped around the navel. No longer bandage, promote the residual limb to dry off.
Disinfect every day
1. Prepare sterilized cotton swabs, 75% alcohol or 2% iodine solution for later use.
2. Wash your hands before handling the stump, then pick up the stump of umbilical cord with your left hand, gently lift it, and wipe it around the root of umbilical cord with a sterile alcohol cotton swab with your right hand to wipe off all secretions and blood until it is wiped clean.
3. Disinfect once every morning and evening, and keep local refreshing at all times. Diaper wrapping method: when changing diapers and wrapping diapers for your baby, you must be very careful to prevent excessive urine from spreading to the navel and causing pollution. Especially when changing diapers for male babies, put down the penis first to avoid navel infection caused by wet diapers.
skill
Most babies' umbilical cord will fall off after 7 ~ 14 days. But there are also special circumstances. There are two umbilical arteries and one umbilical vein on the baby's navel. If some babies have thicker umbilical arteries, it will take longer to fall off than normal babies. Mothers in this situation need not worry. This is not a disease, it is the individual difference of the baby.
Fourth, baby health care methods: ass
The newborn baby's skin is tender. If you are not careful, white and tender skin will have problems, especially little ass, who is more vulnerable. There was a slight mistake in feeding, and little ass was red and swollen, which made the baby cry constantly, and it was not good to eat or sleep.