Daily toilet of the newborn - simple business if to have the corresponding experience. However new parents so are afraid to do much harm inadvertently to the kid that even processing of an umbilical wound is represented to them a difficult task. But the small training - and everything turns out.
It is required to you
- Q-tips,
- hydrogen peroxide,
- brilliant green or chlorfillipt,
- pipette,
- sterile napkins.
Instruction
1. Formally the newborn is considered that the first 28 days of life. Upon the newborn distinguishes presence of not healed umbilical wound from more senior babies. The first few days it slightly bleeds, then the ichor is allocated, after a wound drags on and becomes covered by crusts.
2. In the morning after washing of the kid lay it on a changing table or other horizontal surface. Plentifully moisten a cotton tampon with peroxide of hydrogen and apply it to an umbilical wound. Not healed navel will foam. Then carefully wipe the processed area and drip directly in a navel brilliant green or solution of the chlorfillipt. It is for this purpose convenient to use the pipette or a Q-tip. It is desirable not to close dense clothes the drying-up wound, to sprain a disposable diaper on a stomach.
3. Concerning bathing of the newborn before full healing of an umbilical wound at the moment there is no consensus. Before was considered that it is inadmissible, modern pediatricians do not call it dangerous, but recommend to disinfect water (boiling, addition of broth of herbs or weak solution of potassium permanganate. After a bathtub it is necessary to wipe softly pupochek and to process it the same as during a morning toilet. Follow rules of hygiene of the newborn, and soon on the place of an umbilical wound will remain only accurate shramik for the memory of that time when the kid and mom were literally connected by uniform thread.