Doctor Phan Thi Bach Tuyet, Faculty of Newborn, Children's Hospital 2 (Ho Chi Minh City) shared this information at the seminar on baby skin care: "Naturally gentle is the best", with greedProject of many fathers and mothers with young children.
Both actor Luong The Thanh - Truc Diem and actor Van Trang also brought their children to learn from the experience of taking care of their children.
The two families Luong The Thanh and Van Trang attended the program to provide knowledge about skin care for children.
Children are too tight in the hot season - Watch out for children
According to Dr. Tuyet, at the Faculty of Newborns in recent days, the number of hospitalized children has increased.Many children are affected by health and skin infections by the habit of incubating children too much despite the hot weather of mothers.In some cases, there is an infection of hemorrhage and pneumonia.
"The consciousness of parents in recent years is quite good, seeing that their children have some small signs of small abnormalities are to go to the clinic immediately. Therefore, the proportion of children hospitalized in a state of severe severity."- The doctor shared.
According to the doctor, when the weather is intense, the temperature rises as if in recent days, it will make the baby's skin sweat more, easily spreading bacteria.
Common diseases in newborns (under 28 days of age) are hot in the hot season, floating skin allergies, eczema.If you do not bathe regularly for children, even pus in the skin.
Doctors guide parents how to bathe their children.
When parents leave the baby too hot, the baby will increase the body temperature compared to the external environment temperature, which can cause fever.
Clogged sweat glands will lead to dermatitis, skin infection.Skin infections in newborns are especially dangerous because it can lead to blood infections.
"Parents need to remember the most appropriate temperature for the baby's skin is from 26-28 degrees Celsius. To keep the skin clean, you can bathe many times a day, change your shirt regularly.
In addition, choosing the right, cool clothes to avoid sweating for children also needs to be focused "- Doctor Tuyet shared.
Common mistakes when parents take care of children
In addition to being too tight, despite the hot weather, according to the doctor, many parents also make mistakes in child care such as:
Do not bathe your child when sick for fear of colds.
Let your baby lying with his mother.
Bathing leaves, alcohol.
The sun is prolonged to treat jaundice.
Using products containing toxins that sensitive skin of children easily absorb.
Young children treated at Children's Hospital.
According to the doctor, parents who want to take care of their skin for children need to use gentle shower gel, warm bath.Do not sun exposure to children for less than 6 months and protect children from harmful UV rays.
Talking to the doctor, actress Van Trang confided that her son was often rash when swimming.In addition, babies often have lymphadenopathy near the neck, bacterial and fever, sometimes hospitalized.This baby is nearly 3 years old but still has this situation.
Explaining this, Dr. Tuyet said that it comes from very thin child skin, discrete cells should be easily infected.Children from 1-6 years old have not had good adaptation as adults, maybe even longer due to the location.
One method that can be applied to protect children is to apply lotion.This does not make children increase resistance but let the skin have an additional layer of protective outside.
Common disease in infants
The doctor said that the common skin problems in newborns are:
- Newborn acne: red round acne floating on the surface of the skin, sometimes red inflammation or small pustules on the forehead, nose, cheeks, neck.This condition is seen in 20% of newborns.
The doctor shared common skin diseases in infants.
- Acne: This type of acne is common in the face, forehead, chin and may appear in the limbs, body, penis and oral mucosa.These are small white or light round acne due to the accumulation of keratine.
- Miliaria: Nearly like a dairy rash, common in the first month of life due to sweat glands.This type of rash will form a heat rash.
- Heat rash: due to obstruction and sweat gland inflammation, are red acne lesions.
- There are also types of small arrays, light rash on the skin ...
When should I take your baby to see a doctor?
The doctor advises parents when they see that they have signs of why they do not need to go to the doctor immediately:
- Baby fever, stop feeding, lethargy, dark jaundice.
- Skin damage in the palms and feet.
- Skin has large groups of pustules, water glossy or ulcers on red skin.Or maybe because children have infected dangerous viruses such as CMV, Herpes, Varicella ...
Parents need to take their children to hospital when they encounter abnormalities.
- There is a subcutaneous hemorrhage due to severe hemorrhage or hemorrhage diseases.
- Infectious diseases such as rubella, measles ...