Thin and gentle children's skin is more sensitive to adverse weather conditions, than the adult's skin. In order that winter walks did not cause to the child of discomfort, the special care is necessary for skin of the kid.
Unlike the adult's skin, children's skin contains more water, and sebaceous glands work less intensively because of what on the surface of skin the protective fat film is not formed. For this reason cold, wind and dry air are much more pernicious for gentle skin of the kid, than for the adult. Nevertheless sensitivity of kids to a frost and wind - not an occasion to refuse useful winter walks which temper the child strengthen immunity, help to adapt to new climatic conditions.
How to make walk safe and comfortable?
Not to allow emergence of dryness, peeling or a frostbite, it is necessary to watch closely for dlitelnsotyyu walks. If air temperature fell below -15 °C, walk time with the child needs to be reduced to 20-30 minutes. If the kid is younger than 6 months, pediatricians do not recommend walk in such weather and suggest to replace them with short-term stay on the balcony or a loggia.
Going with the child to winter walk, it is very important to dress him on weather. To the child should not be hot or cold, the clothes should not hold down movements. Protection against cold requires several layers of clothes as the air layer well keeps heat. Also the kid will be protected from cold by a qualitative layered clothing.
Some sites of skin remain open, coming into direct contact with frosty air. They demand special protection - in particular, shortly before walk it is necessary to put protective cream on a child's face. It is necessary to grease face skin with cream not later, than in 30 minutes prior to an exit from the house. During this time cream will be absorbed, on the surface of skin the protective film is formed, and moisture will manage to evaporate, without doing harm.
For these purposes it is worth buying special protective cream from chapping and a frostbite, and it is not necessary to use instead of it the usual moisturizing cream at all. The moistening means strengthen removal of moisture from skin that in the conditions of frosty climate can seriously do much harm to the kid. The children's moisturizing cream it is useful to apply to skin the child before going to bed to soften it and to restore water balance.