Preprocessing and bandaging of an umbilical cord are brought right after appearance of the kid into the world. The obstetrician imposes two sterile clips at distance ten and two centimeters from an umbilical ring, then processes an umbilical cord between clips and crosses sterile scissors. On this place there is a pupovidny rest which dries and disappears approximately in five days.
It is required to you
- - brilliant green;
- - hydrogen peroxide;
- - Q-tips;
- - cotton balls.
Instruction
1. By the time of mom's extract with the child from maternity hospital, as a rule, there is no umbilical cord any more, and there is only an umbilical wound behind which thorough leaving is necessary. It is necessary to watch that this area was always dry and clean. To reduce risk of infection of an umbilical wound and development of umbilical sepsis, it is necessary to process an umbilical wound twice a day.
2. That the baby did not have problems with healing of a navel, the umbilical wound should be processed correctly. For this purpose prepare all necessary and carefully wash up hands.
3. Index and a thumb take skin around a navel and slightly disclose a wound. Moisten a Q-tip with peroxide of hydrogen and process a wound from the center to the outer edges, accurately deleting separated wounds.
4. Promakivayushchy movements dry a wound a sterile cotton ball. If necessary blot a navel several times, every time changing cotton wool for new.
5. Now process a navel solution of one of anti-septic tanks. But it is worth noticing that brilliant green causes moknutiye, and potassium permanganate dries. Therefore it is better to process potassium permanganate.
6. It is necessary to process a navel until until the umbilical wound heals and will be sanious, serous allocations or crusts, and when processing peroxide will not form foam.
7. Usually pupochek heals by the end of the second week and along with it there is a reduction of a skin umbilical ring.
8. Process of healing can be dragged out if the navel becomes wet, and the child constantly is in a diaper or clothes which too closely adjoin to area of an umbilical wound and presses on skin.
9. The shape of a navel, by the way, does not depend on skill of the one who cut it, and depends only on identity of the child. Happens that at the newborn the navel is stuck out. In it there is nothing bad, and usually passes by the end of the first year of life. But if it strongly disturbs you, try to spread the child on a stomach more often.