Mistakes when umbilical care for newborns

Umbilical tape too tight, too, closed

Many people often think, help protect the navel navel sealed tape. On the contrary, the umbilical tape sealed too will create a good environment for germs to grow, causing the umbilical infections, make navel redness, pus flowing ...

Should be open to the navel, navel care after diapers under the navel, just a thin coating of Austria up to the navel to navel, navel observations easily will quickly dry, fast fall, less infections, at least created the umbilical buds.

Arbitrarily umbilical cord recoil

When you see the navel of the near fall, just stick a very small part with the umbilical stalk or navel on right loss not as expected, many people were arbitrarily stutters or pried open. How to do this can cause dangerous and serious injury to the baby.

The navel is a very sensitive parts. Normally, the umbilical cord of newborns will dry and fall out after about 10 to 21 days. However, there is no way to accurately predict the time of umbilical loss. Thus, the shock early navel nipples while the umbilical cord has not yet "ripe" can cause pain, bleeding and infection.

Bath and clean the navel too often

Wash and wipe bath for baby for baby regular navel is a method of care mistakes, is the cause leading to the umbilical condition long umbilical inflammation or loss for children. Absolutely not soaking the umbilical stalk of the child in the shower until the umbilical stalk was alopecia areata and dry.

Arbitrarily topical, strange up navel

Arbitrarily topical red, strange substances, up leaves, sprinkle with pepper ... up the navel with Marquis drugs, cow dung onto the umbilical stalk baby according to the lack of scientific experience from folklore. These measures increase the risk of infection of umbilicus, or belly, temperamental young apnea drugs poisoning, infection of the umbilical will heavily, difficult to treat and leave sequelae such as sepsis, meningitis, yellow pus.

Do not hand clean hygiene before the umbilical care

Hand washing is a simple and effective measures for the prevention of infection including an infection. So you remember to wash hands before and after care infants.

Some navel infection in young expression

Usually, the umbilical cord is dry and fall within 1-2 weeks. During the dry fall, if not yet navel care, this Department will be the gateway to the bacteria enters the body, causing infections. The most common umbilical infections in infants include the following categories:

Navel inflammation have pus

The mother can detect inflamed pustules navel baby when you see the following symptoms: foot baby navel redness, edema, odors, always wet, yellow pus flowing and long fall. Babies can suffer fever or not, mentally crying, not suck ... If you see a mild expression of disease, the mother can take care of at home by daily tape changes for baby, moulding LaTeX, washing out the navel with a solution of peroxide, then wipe dry and then sprinkle the powder antibiotics, using sterile bandages. However, if severe expression, high fever, baby quit breastfeeding, body fatigue, collapse ... need to take the baby to a medical facility.

Inflammation of the umbilical blood vessels

The umbilical blood vessels include arteries, veins 1. After the baby's birth, the umbilical blood vessels will collapses and fibrosis. This process usually lasts 6-8 weeks after birth, has the case to 9-11 weeks. If health care is not good, the bacteria can enter the bloodstream, causing inflammation. The arteries more prone to infection than if after cutting the navel, blood in this area is still unsettled, creating conditions for bacterial growth.

So, when you see the abdominal wall below the navel was edema, redness, parents clawed into the abdomen from the pubic bone to the navel up see pus flows out, baby crying, sexual anorexia, fatigue ... could the baby have umbilical artery become inflamed. In contrast, when the claws into the abdomen from the Rocky memories down the umbilicus seen pus flows out, the abdominal wall above the navel redness, edema, the baby could have inflamed the umbilical vein. Inflammation of the umbilical vein is very dangerous, because the bacteria are easily spread to surrounding organs such as the liver, bile, leading to sepsis, so the parents need to take the baby to the hospital soon if the symptoms above to be timely treatment.

Tetanus navel

This is dangerous, because if the baby can suffer severe muscle spasms due to the breathing muscles, leading to death. When will the baby's navel, tetanus fever, quit feeding, then ham, hard body cramp, both hands clutching. If the impact factors such as light, sound will increase more bad seizures.

U umbilical seeds

Although umbilical stem fall but the leak still gold navel leg stretching, no signs of baby fever, or swelling, red hot navel region. However, if not treated promptly, can prolong the navel particles lead to umbilical infections.=