Seasons alternate, and many babies suffer from minor diseases and cannot eat or sleep well, which worries their parents very much.
Apart from taking medicine and seeing a doctor, is there any what way to make the baby comfortable?
Today, Dr. Clove will introduce some home care methods to everyone.
Fever? Blow air conditioner
When the baby has a fever, our handling principle should be: how comfortable the baby is and how to come.
Obviously, it is undesirable to wear more clothes and cover your baby’s body, which makes it difficult for your baby to dissipate heat. However, it is necessary to make your baby more comfortable, especially in summer, we also need to turn on the air conditioner.
In summer, the indoor temperature is high, and the peripheral temperature will directly affect the heat dissipation of the child’s skin. Therefore, properly reducing the indoor temperature can make the baby’s heat dissipate faster. It is recommended to be around 24 ~ 26 ℃, with the comfortable temperature of the baby as the appropriate temperature.
Sore throat? Have some ice
The baby’s throat is swollen and painful, which is not only easy to be agitated and cry, but also affects the baby’s eating and drinking milk.
At this time, the baby contains ice cubes, frozen fruit cubes, or eat popsicles, ice cream, are good choices, if the baby’s throat hurts badly, eat cold things more painful, don’t force it. For children over 5 years old, you can also eat hard candy with a cool taste. Of course, parents should pay attention to safety to prevent these foods from choking into the baby’s airway.
If the baby can rinse his mouth, rinsing his mouth with warm saline every day can also help relieve sore throat.
Cough? A spoon of honey
When the baby catches a cold, his throat is always itchy, coughing and sleep will also be affected.
If it is a child over 1 year old, you can try to feed a small spoon of honey directly or a little diluted juice.
Honey is especially effective for cough at night. Both the World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatrics suggest that for children over 1 year old with upper respiratory tract infection, honey can be used to relieve cough, which can not only reduce the frequency and degree of irritant cough, but also help to sleep peacefully at night.
Blocked nose, runny nose? Try these methods
Cold, the child’s nose is blocked very uncomfortable, often crying. For babies who are still drinking milk, they will also become reluctant to drink milk. At this time, the following methods can help the baby relieve nasal congestion.
Holding the child up vertically is more conducive to discharging nasal mucus from the nose.
Children’s special sea saline nasal spray, small branch normal saline sprayed into or washed from one nostril, and then washed with manual or electric nasal aspirator, the same change of the other nostril, can help clean the nasal cavity and eliminate nasal mucosa edema.
Or, take the baby to the bathroom, turn on the shower, and let the baby sit in the warm and humid environment in the bathroom for a while, which can help moisten the nasal cavity and facilitate mucus discharge.
Here, Dr. Clove knocks on a blackboard: The American Academy of Pediatrics has repeatedly stressed that over-the-counter cold medicine is not recommended for children under the age of 6 with nasal congestion. For the sake of baby’s delicate organs, parents and friends should pay attention.
Severe eczema? Try wet wrapping therapy
Most babies with eczema have weak skin water retention ability and a series of symptoms after the skin barrier is damaged. Therefore, it is a crucial part of the treatment process to fully moisturize the skin and help repair the skin barrier.
Some babies have serious eczema, and the effect is still not ideal after trying regular treatment such as moisturizing cream and hormone ointment. You can try wet wrapping therapy.
Wet wrapping therapy can make the absorption of drugs better and the skin moisturize more fully by wet wrapping on the skin coated with drugs. At the same time, it can also prevent external stimulation sources from contacting the skin.
The American Eczema Association has professional wet clothing. If we cannot buy wet clothing, we can also do it at home: bathe the baby first, apply hormone ointment, then apply a thick layer of moisturizing cream, then wet it with thinner tight cotton clothing and put it on, and then wear a layer of dry clothing outside to keep warm.
Wet wrapping therapy is best used at night. If eczema is very serious, it can also be used during the day. Use it continuously for several days, and when the situation obviously improves, you can stop using it.