How to dress their children can be difficult for many novice parents. If you wear too little, you will be accused of being a "stepmother"; if you wear too much, you may accidentally cover the baby, which can cause serious illness!
Indeed, for newborn babies, wearing clothes is really important.
The "heat-covering syndrome" that parents should pay attention to
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When it comes to baby dressing, we must first introduce it to everyone One word is called Mug Fever Syndrome.
What is fever syndrome? I believe you can guess a thing or two by the name.
Mother syndrome can also be called infant muggy syndrome and quilt syndrome. This disease is mainly caused by parents who are afraid that their children will get cold, so they wrap healthy or slightly sick babies too tightly. The baby is kept too warm, resulting in high fever, profuse sweating, and then the baby develops dehydration, hypoxia and hypovolemia. Shock syndrome.
This situation is more likely to happen in the cold season. Of course, it is not uncommon to cover your baby in the summer. Fever syndrome mostly occurs in babies under 1 year old, especially newborns.
In summary, covering up heat for too long or keeping warm too much is an important reason for the occurrence of heat-covering syndrome.
In clinical practice, we encounter many babies who suffer from fever syndrome when they are brought here. Fortunately, parents send the babies to the clinic in time, so the children only have mild symptoms, such as moderate or low fever, Mild dehydration, mild vomiting or diarrhea; decreased milk intake, decreased baby energy, or crying and irritability;
In addition, it is also possible to cover up skin infections such as prickly heat and eczema, so unwrap and wear less clothing for the child After wearing clothes, these symptoms will disappear soon.
At the same time, if the child will be in a relatively high temperature environment for a long time, his energy consumption will increase, which may lead to slow weight gain over time.
In addition, because newborns are not yet fully developed in all aspects and their organs and tissues are relatively fragile, they are more likely to suffer from serious illness in a sustained high temperature environment than older children and adults. Specifically, Muzhao syndrome may affect multiple tissues and organs of the child, causing them to function abnormally.
If the baby's fever syndrome is not treated in time, the situation may become more and more serious, leading to some adverse consequences, such as dehydration, circulatory failure, shock, and hypoxia. Hyperemia and intestinal bacterial dislocation can lead to severe intestinal infection and even multiple organ failure.
Wearing more clothes, why is it "covering up"?
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After hearing about the hot-covering syndrome, some parents may still want to ask, how can it be so easy to just put on a few more clothes for the baby? Just cover up your illness? In fact, the physical condition of newborn babies is still very different from that of us adults, and it is indeed easy to get sick.
First of all, the metabolism of newborn babies is relatively strong, and the heat emitted by the baby is relatively much higher. This is why we often feel that babies are like small stoves, and they always feel hot when touched. Warm.
Secondly, if the body temperature rises, under normal circumstances, the sweat glands in our body will work harder to dissipate heat by expelling a large amount of sweat, and the body temperature will drop to normal levels. .
However, newborn babies have poorer regulation function, and their response to rising body temperature is not as timely as that of adults.
In addition, babies' sweat glands are not yet mature. They often can only rely on the sweat glands on their heads to emit sweat at first, so their sweating function is not as good as that of adults. As a result, newborns often cannot regulate their body temperature effectively through sweating.
Another important reason is that the baby is too small. Even if it is covered, it cannot express its thoughts with words or actions;
Older children They also know that they constantly rub off their quilts, hats, and socks to attract their parents' attention. However, the newborn's limbs are weak and their movements are not fully developed, so they have to be "at the mercy" of their parents.
Having said this, I believe parents can understand why babies are easily covered, right?
Originally, I emit a lot of heat, have poor heat dissipation and adjustment functions, and will not resist. If I encounter parents who are really worried about their babies catching cold, they can’t help but put them in more clothes and covers. This is not the case for babies. It's going to be "hot".
Of course, although newborns are more likely to suffer from fever syndrome, this does not mean that babies can wear less clothes and can withstand the cold. You should know that newborns have thinner subcutaneous fat and less adaptability to cold, so freezing the baby is of course not possible. In short, they are sensitive to both cold and heat, so we need to take good care of them and keep them in a just right state of neither cold nor hot.
Baby dressing guide, teach you to wear the right clothes
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To judge whether the baby is cold or warm, touching the right place is very important
Although everyone knows the truth, how can we keep the baby in a perfect state of being neither cold nor hot? In fact, the most important thing to judge whether your child is cold or hot is to touch the right place.
Under normal circumstances, it is recommended that parents touch the baby's "neck", "chest" or "belly", and at the same time combine the baby's overall mental state to comprehensively judge whether the baby's current clothing is appropriate. Need to add or remove clothes.
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If these three places of the baby are hot, damp, or even starting to sweat, the baby’s face will also be red. If the baby seems to be more irritable and easy to move, it means that the baby is too hot, and parents should consider wearing less clothes for the baby;
On the contrary, if the baby is cooler in these three places, and at the same time his face turns pale, shrinks into a ball, or even starts to Shivering means that the baby is a little cold and needs to be given more clothes;
If the baby's back, chest, and belly feel warm and dry, it is just right.