4 things to avoid when bathing children in winter

In winter, cleaning for children is very important. However, if you are not careful just a minute neglecting to be alert when bathing children, mothers can lose children forever.

Children bathing alone are very easy to breathe

Young children often like to play with water and bathing, but if adults are subjective, neglect can cause children to die from suffocating right in their home or child care. In particular, if children are at the age of crawling, practicing walking and falling into buckets of water containers, unable to stand up on their own, the likelihood of suffocation is very high.

Therefore, families with young children should not contain water in pots or buckets.When bathing a young child, do not leave the baby alone , especially when the pot is full of water. The babysitter should learn how to provide first aid to suffocation for children to reduce complications or death.

Children suffocated in the bathroom

Winter weather is often very cold, so when bathing children, parents or put heaters in the bathroom. This is necessary for children to be free from coldness but if an accident can be dangerous for them. Electric heating devices, if not installed, safely designed, exposed wires can cause electric shock to both parents and young children, especially dangerous when the bathroom is often wet, plenty of water, so higher risk of electric shock.

Children may suffocate in the bathroom.

More dangerous, many people also put coal heaters in the bathroom when bathing children, but closed the door for fear that the wind will get cold. Burning coal will release CO, and in a closed room, it will cause small children to suffocate. Therefore, absolutely do not place coal heaters when bathing babies. Electrical heating devices must also ensure safety against electric shock.

Let the baby bath for too long

Cold winter, not every day to bathe children. So, many people have a "one-bath", "bathing" and children like to play with water so their parents have a long bath. However, even in airtight rooms and heating equipment should not let children bath too long will be susceptible to cold, pneumonia.

For babies, only a quick bath for 2-3 minutes, older children take a bath for no more than 5 minutes. Need to prepare a towel and warm clothes to wear immediately for children.

Leaf bath, children with blood infection

In very hot days of summer or very cold in winter, children are prone to skin diseases due to very sensitive young skin. Mothers often look to buy leaves such as dandelion leaves, incense, marjoram, smelling seeds, five-color flowers, black pepper and soya beans . to boil water for children to treat rash, rashes, acne boil. But for a few days, the young skin was rash, young fever, fuss. Let me go to see the new mothers falling back to their babies with dermatitis due to bathing in leaves.

Leaf bath, children with blood infection.

Dr. Minh Tan (Central Hospital of Tropical Diseases) said there has not been any scientific evidence to prove the effect of leaf bath with young skin, all is a word-of-mouth experience. This way of bathing can make children with dermatitis, especially the skin of children scratched, the more it will be prone to itching, rash.

Even if the types of leaves with dusty soil or plant protection drugs, including washed and boiled, are still not sure to kill the pathogens, the risk of infection in children is very high, even causing septicemia. Moreover, not all children can bathe in leaves, especially children with skin diseases.