How to clean the eyes, nose, ears and umbilical cord for newborns

The nose is an important part of the baby's body, but do not put any tools inside, including cotton swabs for cleaning.

From birth, parts of the child are still immature. Therefore, the cleaning should be gentle, careful to not cause scratches and injuries, but must be clean. However, some parents listen to the earings, using improper disinfectant solutions that affect them.

Eye hygiene for babies

1. Wash your hands before cleaning your baby's eyes.
2. Use a cotton ball dipped in boiling water to cool.
3. Wipe from inside to outside corner horizontally (do not wipe the inside of the eye causing visual effects).
4. To clean it again, you must use a new piece of cotton dipped in cool boiled water.
5. Keep repeating such movements until your baby's eyes are cleaned.

After cleaning one eye, continue to do so with the other eye. Parents can clean their eyes in the above way 1-2 times / day or when needed.

While performing eye hygiene gently, do not rush, be careful, to avoid rubbing the skin of the eye area, do not wipe the inside of the eye.

Nasal hygiene for babies

Infants have narrow nostrils, often sneezing to expel mucus from the nasal cavity. Therefore, it is best not to put anything inside the baby's nostrils, including cotton swabs, which can damage the lining of the nasal cavity, which is the mucous membrane that contains many blood vessels.

You can clean your baby's nose when bathing by soaking a cotton ball in clean warm water and gently wipe around the nostrils to cleanse the mucus.

Babies need to clean the parts properly and ensure lightness.(Photo: Momjuncation).

Hygiene for babies' ears

Parents can use a cotton swab to cool off the back of the ear and around the outer area of ​​each ear. You have to do it gently, being careful not to let the cotton, the water inside the ear can hurt.

Many parents often take their own earwax for fear of affecting hearing. However, this is a habit to quit immediately. If there is earwax in the outer ear, you can clean it with cotton. When earwax is present in the baby's inner ear, parents need to take the child to the specialist for review and the safest way to remove it.

The note with

When in the womb, the newborn receives nutrients and oxygen through the placenta. The placenta is connected to the baby by the umbilical cord in the abdomen. After birth, the umbilical cord is clamped and clipped to the baby's abdomen. This does not cause pain for children, because there are no nerves in this umbilical cord.

After cutting, there is a remaining 3 cm section called umbilical cord. This umbilical cord will dry and fall off itself during 7-21 days or earlier depending on the child.

During the umbilical cord stem has not fallen, parents need to keep hygiene as follows to ensure no infection:

1. Keep clean, dry for umbilical cord.
2. When wearing diapers (diapers) for children, stay away from the umbilical cord, help this area not to contact urine, feces.
3. When bathing a child, parents use a sponge, do not bathe the child in a pot or bathe with a tub. You should bathe your baby in each of the upper and lower portions, avoiding the wet part of the cord.
4. Wear loose, comfortable clothes to avoid rubbing the umbilical cord.
5. Before changing diapers or cleaning the cord, clean your hands.
6. Do not use your hands or any tools to remove the cord. When you see your umbilical cord nearing to fall, you should not get your umbilical cord by hand, let it fall naturally.

How to clean the umbilical cord for children

Parents can use cotton pads soaked in cool boiled water to gently wipe on the umbilical cord. You can wipe many times until the umbilical cord is completely cleaned. However, parents note that a new cotton pad should be used for each cleaning. After wiping the umbilical cord with cotton, it must be dry, airy, not wet. Parents do not use any oil, powder, paste, ointment to apply to the umbilical cord.

Currently, some people still apply the umbilical hygiene method with alcohol. However, alcohol may cause skin irritation. So, how to clean your umbilical cord should consult your doctor before taking your child home.

When the umbilical cord falls, you may see some blood on the diaper, but don't worry. After the umbilical cord has fallen off, parents continue to clean with cotton soaked in cool boiled water. The wound in the umbilical cord that has fallen will heal after 2-3 days.

If any of the following signs can warn umbilical cord infection, call a doctor:

1. The baby cries when you touch the umbilical cord or the surrounding skin.
2. The skin around the umbilical cord is red
3. The umbilical cord has a bad smell or a yellow substance oozes out
4. The blood in the umbilical cord drips a lot.
5. Children have fever, fuss.