Newborn Care
Caring for baby tricky. Not just takes patience, but it needs knowledge about the correct treatment.
Tabloid Nakita Expert Consultation held back. This time the “Newborn Care”, with experts, dr. Eric Gultom, Sp.A of headline Neonatology RSUPN Cipto Mangunkusumo, Jakarta. Well, here are some questions that expressed the mothers and expectant mothers in the opportunity.
How long will the cord loose? What should be done before the loose?
There is loose cord within 5 days, 7 days, even two weeks. Treatment is very simple. Wash the baby, umbilical cord scrub with soap. Dry and clean with alcohol 70 percent. Let the open, no-wrap wrapped, except for infection. So, do not I’ll even put on powder and the nest so tetanus germs.
The use of antiseptics was no longer recommended, because there iodine content. If your gift cause excessive disruption of its growth mumps. Consumption of alcohol was only used after a bath in the morning and afternoon.
Is eucalyptus oil should not be given before the 3-year-olds?
Provision of eucalyptus oil at any age does not matter. There are only two factors; how much concentration and how irritating and the baby’s sensitive skin. Surely eucalyptus oil concentration of the original, the original will be felt more severely. Caused irritation factor was different.
Thus, there is no prohibition parents put eucalyptus oil on the baby, depending on how irritating and sensitive skin. Moreover, the pores smaller skin pores than adults. These pores are used for skin respiration. If a closed pore with oil, skin respiration does not occur. As a result, the skin became red. The solution, do not have to be given various medications. Just wash and dry.
How about giving the baby powder?
Actually, in Indonesia do not need to use talcum powder, baby oil, baby lotion, and all kinds. Therefore, high humidity levels, until the skin surface was never dry.
Another practice was wrong about the powder that is used to clean the urine or former areas wet with sweat. In fact, a mixture of powder and sweat is a good medium for growing germs. While the surface of the skin itself is full of germs. That’s because, if not a bath, decomposition by bacteria occurs in the skin surface. Especially in the folds like the neck, groin, which occurred faster decay.
It did not cause death, but many pimples, and sometimes there are small pus pus-like folds in the neck. The solution, a baby bath. Do not use hot water, except in very cold regions. Use baby soap or a special soap, in addition to cleaning also inhibits the growth of bacteria colonization.
Should provision of coconut oil in prickly heat?
No, because it will close the pores.
How many times baby bowel movements a day?
When the baby drinks milk, it cans defecation 12-15 times a day. In fact, sometimes even while he was feeding defecation, because the digestive enzymes have not worked well, peristaltic movement of intestines to work more and more intense, until the time he was feeding it directly defecation automatic. The more time passes, the more perfect enzyme, the more his mother’s milk can be absorbed first arrested for a new and discarded the rest. Thus, infants are often defecation in not got diarrhea ,but want smart or slight body.
What if the baby diarrhea?
If there is diarrhea mucus and blood, so there are injuries. Under the age of one month, diarrhea in infants is a sign of infection. Mother had to be careful. Previous baby looks not like a drink, fussing and crying. Children with diarrhea should be taking medication. During the baby did not vomit, breastfeeding can help.
Can baby sleep in air-conditioned room?
Nothing, for example, with a temperature of 24-23 degrees Celsius or even 16 degrees Celsius, no problem. If the mother feels her baby might be cold, can be covered. Use of the fan was allowed.
Is the baby crying is to train his lungs?
Babies cry because there is something like a shock, colic. So, nothing to do with lung exercises. In fact, if too many tears would waste energy and the baby was limp.
How to cope with congested baby? Should baby oil consumption?
Babies at his face down / on his stomach. If a lot of wind in the stomach, will be out fart. Because, as in his tummy, gas in the stomach will seek higher ground and then exit.
The use of oil based on the belief baby oil if the mother does not matter, then please. For your information, baby oil can cause red skin and red, though not dangerous. But it was nature irritation.
How to clean the genitals?
Clean with soap and anal cleansing. When a shower, a baby boy was part of the foreskin pulled and cleaned with soap, because many of the remnants of urine. Especially when wearing pampers. Can also clean up after urinating, the baby held in the sink, cleaning his former urine flowing tap water, use soap, dry it and fish wear shorts.
Can baby sorted?
No, because there’s no point. If the baby fell, looking in pain and cannot keep quiet, or cry, cry, then the X-rays alone, did not have sorted-order.
My weight increased a lot, may after giving birth to my diet?
During pregnancy, weight gain should be set for high blood pressure do so. But, if during breastfeeding should not diet because her breast milk will be no more. When you have finished breastfeeding period, please.
Source : www.junior-smart.com
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