How to treat the navel of a newborn baby?

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

And now a joyful event happened. You are standing on the threshold of your house, squeezing in your arms a bundle of happiness so dear to you, wrapped in a ruffled blanket. Left behind are nine difficult months of waiting, painful contractions and childbirth, a joyful noisy discharge from the maternity hospital. Thoughts and advice received both from medical personnel and from grandmothers and aunts gradually begin to fit in your head. At first, young parents are afraid to approach their newborn baby, for fear of harming him, hurting him. That is why they face the acute question:

"how to treat the navel of a newborn". Under the supervision of a doctor, this rather simple procedure did not raise questions, but left alone, the parents begin to panic. How to care for the navel of a newborn to preventinfection and accelerate healing?

Treatment of the navel of a newborn

Approaches to the question of how to treat the navel of a newborn are constantly changing. More recently, neonatologists - doctors who observe children up to a month old, advised treating the wound with alcohol-containing solutions (brilliant green or iodine). Today, medicine recommends: before treating the navel of a newborn, it is necessary to organize air baths for the baby. This is useful not only for the umbilical wound, but for the whole organism as a whole. Frequent air baths will help to avoid diaper rash and sweating. Processing of the navel is best done in the evening before going to bed. The baby needs to be bathed first. Add decoctions of herbs such as chamomile or calendula to the water. After bathing, start processing. To do this, you can use a solution of potassium permanganate or brilliant green. Before treating the navel

newborn with these means, wash the wound with hydrogen peroxide. Next, with a cotton swab, burn the baby's navel with a dark solution of potassium permanganate or brilliant green. Pay special attention to places where the umbilical cord is just beginning to fall off: it is very important that the solution gets under the drying umbilical cord, and in no case should you tear it off yourself. Doubt how to treat the navel of a newborn, what to choose - potassium permanganate or brilliant green? Ask your he alth visitor or local pediatrician about this. They will help you make the right choice.

General recommendations for newborn care

Newborn carequite simple, every mother intuitively feels what her baby needs at one time or another. However, a number of general recommendations will help new parents get comfortable with a new family member:

1. Diapers. Try to keep your baby in the diaper as short as possible. Of course, at night and on a walk, a diaper is an absolutely indispensable thing, but during the day the child will be better off without it. Indeed, for the normal development of the reproductive system, it is impossible to overheat the genitals of children (especially boys), and the body temperature in a dry diaper is half a degree-degree higher than body temperature. After the baby pees, the temperature rises another degree.
2. Skin care is simple. It is enough to ensure that there are no diaper rash and small cracks in the folds. In case such a nuisance still happened, do not be discouraged. Treat the damaged areas of the skin with a special diaper rash ointment (it will be recommended to you in the maternity hospital).
3. For the care of ears, nose and eyes, use special children's cotton buds, sterile cotton swabs, turundas. Rinse everything with warm boiled water.