Coniferous baths for babies: preparation methods, effect, reviews

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Bathing has long been the key to cleanliness and he alth. Therefore, each family observes a simple, but very correct ritual - everyday bathing of the baby. As a rule, decoctions of oak bark, chamomile, succession, fennel and other herbs are added to the bath. Coniferous baths for babies require special attention in preparation, because babies of this age have very delicate skin. Such a bath should benefit them, but not cause negative feelings. Why do we need coniferous baths for babies, how to cook them, the positive and negative sides - you can learn about everything from this article.

Briefly about these baths

To prepare a similar bath, apply concentrates from cones, needles and bark of coniferous trees. Usually in pharmacies you can buy extracts from pine, spruce, fir, cedar and juniper.

Types of coniferous extracts are presented ina large assortment - powder or tablets, liquid solution, sea s alt soaked in concentrate, dry briquettes. In addition, you can prepare a he althy decoction yourself.

There are many useful elements in the needles - carotene, phytoncides, trace elements, essential oils, vitamins of groups K, E, P, PP, B, C, tannins, antioxidants.

Despite the fact that coniferous baths for babies are very useful, only a pediatrician who is well aware of the condition of the baby should prescribe them to the baby. For the first six months, the child should not do these baths. Although in cases where the baby is born weak or premature, the doctor may prescribe similar baths earlier, as soon as the little one gets a little stronger.

What are they for?

The pediatrician prescribes baths with the scent of pine needles as a therapeutic and immunostimulating agent. After all, needles are the best prevention of lung diseases. Its positive effect on the functioning of the cardiovascular system is also known. After babies take warm baths, their bodies are cleansed of toxins excreted through sweat. It is necessary to add to the beneficial effects the prevention of rickets, the normalization of metabolic processes, and the calming effect.

No need to bathe a small child in a pine bath during the daytime. The calming effect can be so strong that the baby's sleep during the day will be very deep, but at night, on the contrary, he may not fall asleep for a long time.

Essential oils will very actively penetrate the skin into the body of the crumbs. And since the baby until he reaches six months of ageshe is very sensitive, then the pediatrician should prescribe him baths with needles from 6 months, or even a year. In any case, a doctor's advice and an allergy test answer are required first.

What do we make a bath out of?

We already know how beneficial coniferous baths are for babies. What to do if you have different products on hand?

Infusion of dry needles. You can cook it yourself. There are many recipes, but the result is the same - such an infusion is an environmentally friendly product. Often it is prepared like this: chopped dry needles are brewed with boiling water in a teapot or thermos. It will be ready in twenty to thirty minutes.

Coniferous tablets. This is a evaporated extract that is obtained from the pine paw, and a small amount of oil is added to it. To get a liquid remedy, you just need to dissolve the tablet in water.

Herbal coniferous extract. It is also called a concentrate or an elixir. Produced by water extraction from natural raw materials, which include branches of coniferous trees. Sold as a concentrated liquid solution. This extract can be used to treat and prevent asthma, cough, and other broncho-pulmonary diseases, because it contains folic acid, vitamin C, B vitamins, plant hormones, carbohydrates, micro and macro elements.

Coniferous powder. It is a dried extract, which is obtained by extracting a plant concentrate from the branches of pine trees. Trees must be one year old. The resulting dry powder is very convenient to store and use. And it is becoming less and less common in pharmacies.

Balm. Its production takes place on the basis of natural coniferous extract. It contains oils, phytoncides, bischofite, fir oil, dyes, gum turpentine, a lot of balsamic minerals, starch, flavors, natural s alts.

Preparing a pine bath

It is very easy to make a similar bath. Pine baths for babies do this. If an adult bath is being prepared for a baby, then it should be filled by two-thirds. If a baby bath, then fill it up to half so that the level of water is below the border of the baby's heart. The water temperature should be between 35-37 degrees. The baby should not take a bath for more than a quarter of an hour.

The baby should be in a good mood and calm, be completely he althy. You should not put the child in the water immediately after eating, it is best when at least an hour and a half has passed after dinner.

Such baths should be taken in the evening, about an hour before the baby sleeps. The baby should already be in a relaxed state, you should not start active games in the bath while bathing. After the bath is taken, the baby should be rinsed in the shower.

Deal with the dosage for the baby, depending on what kind of coniferous extract.

If applied dry, then twenty grams will suffice.

If essential oil, then six to eight drops (best used for babies older than a year).

Liquid concentratethirty to fifty ml will be enough.

If you take a briquette, half of it is enough.

When using tablets per bath, take one piece.

Another recipe

If the house has collected cones and needles, coniferous infusion can be prepared according to the following recipe. It should be noted that such a natural extract will be more useful. True, the production will take a certain amount of time.

So, half a kilogram of raw materials is poured into three or four liters of water and all this is boiled over low heat for thirty minutes. Then the mixture is covered with a lid and infused for ten to twelve hours. After the time has elapsed, strain the infusion. It is stored in a cool dark place for no more than three days.

When a therapeutic bath is prepared for a baby for the first time, it is better to use half the dose, and reduce the time of taking it to five minutes. So you need to do to check the reaction of the baby.

Coniferous-s alt baths. What is their secret?

Coniferous-s alt baths for babies are of great benefit to them. These are ordinary coniferous baths, in which sea s alt is added. They are prescribed for children who are suspected of having rickets, if they have skin or neurological diseases (stress, disorders, overwork), metabolic disorders, muscle spasms.

Taking such baths by a baby may well replace swimming in the sea and s alt rooms (halotherapy) that have been common in recent years. The addition of coniferous extract will serve as a reinforcementbenefits of s alt baths.

Thanks to s alt, excess moisture is removed from the body, metabolism is restored, bones are strengthened, the functioning of the excretory system improves, tone increases, and digestion is activated.

Preparing a pine-s alt bath

These are all examples of the positive impact that pine-s alt baths for babies have on the functioning of the body and its systems. How to cook them?

Take two tablespoons of coniferous concentrate and sea s alt. The extract is completely replaceable with essential oils of coniferous trees in the amount of six to eight drops per baby bath. You can also take s alt, which is saturated with coniferous concentrate.

Quite often, coniferous and s alt baths are alternated between parents: today - one, tomorrow - the other. So the course of treatment will be longer and with a significant effect.

Benefits of baths and existing contraindications?

Baths, in which coniferous concentrate is added, not only have a pleasant smell, but also have a very good effect on the body.

The pediatrician can prescribe such baths when the baby is anxious, he is often "overtaken" by respiratory diseases, he does not sleep well. As a rule, the course is from ten to twenty trays - either daily or every other day. Usually, after the first two or three procedures, the mother notices that the baby becomes calmer and falls asleep better. And when the full course of healing baths is completed, the baby catches less colds. The interval between courses is at least two months and each time you should showbaby doctor.

So, coniferous baths for babies have the following indications for use: normalization of sleep, elimination of allergic itching, prevention of respiratory diseases, removal of spasms and relaxation of muscles, restoration of metabolism, removal of irritation, calming of the nervous system. All this is really doable. The main thing is to follow the recommendations of the pediatrician.

Although it has been found that coniferous baths for babies are very useful, there are some contraindications to their use. It is because of this that it is permissible to carry out such procedures only by the attending physician, who knows what the condition of the baby is at this moment.

It is contraindicated to give such baths to children if babies have:

• pathology of the heart;
• infectious diseases;
• asthma (and bronchial too);
• wounds, scratches and abrasions on the skin;
• temperature increased;
• exacerbated chronic diseases; atherosclerosis.

Contraindications include local allergic reaction and individual intolerance. If the baby is in a nervous state after the bath, he is worried, his sleep is disturbed, rashes appear on the skin, you should stop the course before consulting with the pediatrician.

Final recommendations

We have already figured out how to prepare pine baths for babies. Reviews of mothers say that if all the rules are followed, a positive effect really occurs. After all, babies should be bathed only if they are in a good mood and he althy. Moms shouldcreate a friendly atmosphere with your voice and movements while taking a bath, so that the baby is completely calm. This is how the maximum effect is achieved.

Experts recommend not making a mixture of compositions, but simply alternating them. Do it better according to the scheme:

• coniferous bathing;
• bathing routine;
• s alt bathing;
• bathing with herbs.

In this order, continue the course.

Important! It is necessary that the baby takes a bath while sitting, without plunging his chest into the water. It is impossible to give him the opportunity to take a bath on his own. The concentration of the used coniferous solution should be low.