How to care for babies in winter

In the cold winter, many mothers have welcomed their babies. How to scientifically care for newborns in winter and make them spend the winter healthily has become the most concerned issue for mothers. Here's how to care for babies in winter. Welcome to read the reference, I hope it will help you.

Skin products

The two major injuries in winter: cold and dryness, the baby's face and hands will be red, swollen and dry. Especially after washing the face, the baby's little face has chapped skin, which looks like the skin of cantaloupe. It is really funny and heartbreaking. Therefore, in winter, mothers should take good care of their baby's delicate skin.

1. Skin cleaning

The first step of skin care is always cleaning, and baby's skin is no exception. In winter, the baby's activities are not as much as in summer, and the sweat and sebum secretion are not so strong. It is usually enough to wash the baby's face twice a day. In general, it is enough to give your baby a bath once or twice a week. Wash baby's hands and face with warm water. The water temperature should not be too high. You can also use some cleaning supplies.

PS: It is not good to wash your baby's face and bathe too often, especially after 3 months. The hormone level in the body drops, and frequent cleaning will wash away the protective sebum, which will easily cause the baby's skin to be dry.

Moisturize and replenish moisture

After washing the baby's face with clear water, dry it with a soft towel in time. When the baby spits milk or drools, dry it with a soft towel immediately. Don't use too much force when wiping, just gently press with a towel to absorb moisture. After washing your face, rub some moisturizing cream on your baby's face and hands in time. Rub some baby oil or moisturizer on cheeks, forehead, back of hand and other parts of the skin that are easy to dry before going out. Don't rub it too thick, just apply a thin layer.

In addition, avoid hastily applying moisturizing cream a few minutes before going out. The correct way is to apply moisturizing cream half an hour before going out, so that the moisturizing cream can be fully absorbed.

Moisturize lips

Moisturizing is not only the skin, but also the key to oral and lip care. Once the baby's lips are found to be chapped, you can apply a small wet towel to the baby's lips to let the lip mucosa fully absorb water, and then apply some lip balm or sesame oil. Pay attention to drinking boiled water for your baby in winter, and you can also supplement vitamin B2 and vitamin C appropriately.

If you see your baby licking and wiping his lips frequently, parents should stop it in time and tell him that doing so will make his lips more chapped. Generally speaking, putting a pot of clean water indoors and putting more pots of green plants in winter is also a simple and easy moisturizing method.

toiletry

After beginning of winter, the weather gets cold, and mothers will start to buy new clothes for their babies. In fact, whether buying autumn clothes or winter clothes, mothers must first know how to choose clothes for their babies.

1, the more clothes, the better.

Cold weather doesn't mean keeping a baby. As we all know, children wear too much, their pores are in a state of expansion, and they are prone to catch cold and get sick. Therefore, "if you want your child to be safe, you must be hungry and cold."

2. Temperature changes should be appropriately added.

Baby's clothes should be decided according to the weather needs, and cotton underwear and sweaters can be selected for the upper body. A thick cardigan coat is enough if it's not too cold. If the temperature drops, add a cotton down vest and wear a down jacket when you go out. In addition to autumn trousers, wear thick cotton trousers, and increase or decrease wool trousers and cotton trousers according to weather conditions.

3. Increase or decrease in different time states.

Active children should take off their coats when they are active, so as to release the heat generated during exercise in time. And put on clothes immediately after the activity to avoid catching a cold. Children should pay attention to keep their head, abdomen and feet warm when sleeping, especially younger infants. In addition, children's clothes should be increased or decreased at any time during sleep and waking up.

Diet articles

Many mothers think that winter is a good time to supplement their babies' nutrition, but they don't know that if they don't pay attention to the amount, they will get angry. In fact, after beginning of winter, the baby is very particular about how to take supplements, and the mother should take supplements according to the baby's physique.

1, eat more cold-resistant food.

To enhance children's ability to keep out the cold, you can choose some high-protein and high-calorie foods in winter, such as beef and mutton, chicken, fish, eggs, milk, bean products, etc., and you can also add some soup dishes, which are warm and easy to digest.

2. Eat more yellow-green vegetables

There are fewer vegetables in winter. At this time, you can pay attention to the intake of some yellow-green vegetables, such as carrots, rapeseed, spinach, mung bean sprouts and so on. To avoid your baby's lack of vitamin A and vitamin B2.

Step 3 supplement dietary fiber

Dietary fiber can regulate the absorption and excretion of food, keep the excretion unobstructed, which is very beneficial to the excretion of toxins in the body. Eating foods containing dietary fiber in winter, such as corn, sweet potatoes, sorghum, soybeans, red beans and other vegetables, such as celery, is more beneficial to your baby.

4. Don't forget the bacteria and algae food.

Mushrooms, Hericium erinaceus, tremella, kelp, laver and other marine plants all contain essential trace elements, which help to enhance the baby's resistance and improve immunity.

5. Moisturize food and prevent getting angry

The dry climate in winter can make the baby eat more moist food. For example, radish can moisten throat and clear throat, reduce qi and stimulate appetite, remove dryness and promote fluid production, and wax gourd is sweet and cool, which has the effects of clearing heat and quenching thirst, diuresis and detumescence. In addition, tremella and pears also have the effect of moistening dryness. In contrast, we should eat less greasy and hot food.

Preventive supplies

Professor Chiharu Suto from the Department of Health, Environment and Medicine of Nagoya University in Japan found that the incidence of allergic diseases in Japan increased by more than 33% from 196 1 to 199 1. The high incidence of these diseases is due to living in a low humidity environment for a long time, which leads to the decline of human immunity. It can be seen that we must pay attention to the supply of water in winter to prevent the outbreak.

A dry climate may cause many respiratory diseases in children, such as asthma, emphysema and bronchitis. Therefore, after winter, babies are prone to respiratory infections. So, how can we prevent the recurrence of respiratory infection?

1. Create a good living environment for children

Family rooms should be sunny and ventilated regularly to ensure fresh air. In early winter, the indoor temperature should be 18~22℃ and the relative humidity should be 45%~55%. Adults should not smoke indoors to avoid polluting the air and hurting children's respiratory tract.

2. Always take children outdoors to do sports.

Often take children to do some sports within their power, such as walking, playing football, riding a bike, etc. Letting children wash their hands and faces with cold water can enhance their adaptability and resistance to climate change.

3. Avoid contact with the source of infection

Don't take children to play in public places with dense population and dirty air, especially don't take children to visit patients with infectious diseases such as colds, and don't let children and adults go to the hospital to visit patients to prevent infectious diseases.

4. Keep your feet and limbs warm

Feet are the ends of human limbs, and the blood circulation is poor, especially the temperature regulation center of infants and young children is not perfect, and their ability to keep out the cold is poor. If the feet catch cold, it will lead to insufficient blood supply to the whole body, which will reflexively cause vasoconstriction of upper respiratory mucosa such as nose, pharynx and trachea, and reduce the resistance to pathogenic microorganisms. Therefore, parents should pay attention to keep their children's feet warm, soak their feet with 40℃ hot water before going to bed and massage Yongquan point, which is of great benefit to prevent respiratory infection.

5. Ensure high-quality sleep

The peak of growth hormone secretion is when children sleep at night. If you don't get enough sleep or have irregular work and rest, it will lead to a decrease in growth hormone secretion, which will not only affect healthy development, but also reduce resistance. Therefore, parents should cultivate their children's good sleep habits, create a comfortable sleeping environment, and let their children sleep well every night, which can be said to be a good way to resist respiratory infections.

6. Rational use of drugs

Once the child is sick, parents should not use drugs or even antibiotics casually, which will not only cure the disease, but will destroy the microecological balance in the body and make the body weak. If you are sick, you should take medicine under the guidance of a doctor and add or subtract according to your child's specific situation.

Six points that newborns must know to keep warm in winter

1. The suitable indoor temperature should be kept at 25℃ ~ 28℃

Newborns are somewhat uncomfortable with the change of external temperature difference. The suitable indoor temperature should be kept at 25℃ ~ 28℃, and it is necessary to keep warm in winter. Dad Bao should pay attention to having a heater around him when ventilating. But indoor light should not be too dark or too bright. Some parents think that newborns are less sensitive to light and are afraid of irritating their eyes. They often like to hang heavy curtains. In fact, this is not appropriate. Babies should learn to adapt to natural indoor light and avoid direct sunlight.

2. You can touch the baby's forehead or back to judge the warmth of the newborn.

Touch the baby's forehead or back. It will sweat if it is hot, and it will be very cold if it is cold. Pay more attention at night to prevent colds. Babies are delicate and delicate, and mothers are always afraid of wearing too little for their babies. Many babies are wrapped in layers of clothes and covered with thick bedding, and their faces are red. Add and subtract clothes for your baby according to the temperature change. Generally speaking, it is enough for a baby to wear one more than an adult. Judge whether the baby is cold or hot. First, feel whether his palm is warm. Second, feel whether his neck is warm. Then feel his vest for sweating. Usually a little less than we adults is enough.

3. Maintain 50% humidity in winter, and regularly open windows for ventilation.

It is dry in winter, with high indoor temperature and low humidity, which is unfavorable to the respiratory mucosa function and ciliary function of newborns. The humidity should be kept at about 50% to increase the indoor humidity. At present, humidifiers are widely used, but using steam to improve indoor humidity will also increase the chance of neonatal respiratory tract infection. Distilled water can be used in Ma Bao. Even in winter, open the window regularly and change the indoor air. Families who use air conditioners should also open windows regularly, and cannot rely solely on air conditioners for ventilation. The growth of newborns in turbid environment is not conducive to growth and development.

4. Excessive warmth of newborns is easy to induce heat syndrome.

Covering syndrome is also called "covering heat syndrome", also called "infant covering hypoxia syndrome" or "infant sultry syndrome". It is a common winter emergency, which is caused by hypoxia, high fever, sweating, dehydration, convulsion and coma, and even respiratory and circulatory failure due to excessive warmth and cover for a long time. The peak period is 1 1 to April of the following year. /kloc-infants under 0/year old, especially newborns, are most likely to induce this disease if they do not pay attention to scientific nursing.

Too warm baby packaging often leads to high fever, sweating, hypertonic dehydration, electrolyte disorder, circulatory failure and respiratory failure, leading to convulsions or coma due to lack of oxygen. If the rescue is not timely, it can quickly go into shock and even die. Children who are lucky enough to survive will also leave behind serious brain injury sequelae such as mental retardation, dyskinesia, stupidity, deafness and epilepsy.

Newborns can use sleeping bags in winter.

You can use a sleeping bag. Under normal circumstances, during 0-8 months, the baby will not turn over, but his feet will push the quilt, his hands will be raised when he sleeps, his legs and knees will bend outward, and he needs to change diapers frequently. When you sleep, your hands and feet wave up and down, and your feet paddle like frogs, which makes it easy to push the quilt away. If you limit your hands and feet, you will wake up and cry, which will affect your baby's sleep. So choose a loose sleeping bag and don't give your baby a sense of bondage.

6. It is not recommended for newborns to use warm babies for heating.

The reaction principle of warm baby is to use primary battery to accelerate oxidation reaction and convert chemical energy into heat energy. In order to make the temperature last longer, the product uses mineral material vermiculite to keep warm. For the baby, because it contains chemical components, and the skin is tender and the activity is not large, it is best not to use it to prevent cryogenic burns.