Dressing is not a sin for babies - the law of winter baby dressing

The snow season has passed, which means that the temperature is gradually dropping and the weather is getting colder. In this indoor and outdoor temperature difference change, hot and cold alternate environment, many babies will get sick because of improper dressing.

We know that the skin of the human body has its own thermoregulation function, for the baby, the body temperature regulation center is still developing, so the baby's physical condition needs parents to observe more, timely increase or decrease clothing, to avoid discomfort caused by improper clothing.

The interior is most comfortable and breathable

1. Do not cover the baby: the child is wrapped too tightly and has limited mobility, which is not conducive to growth and development. As the saying goes, if you want a child to be safe, you often bring three points of cold. Depriving children of the opportunity to receive hardiness training will reduce the body's ability to adapt to temperature changes, which will make the body's ability to regulate worse. Wearing too much, the heat generated by the body can not be dissipated, the temperature in the clothing quilt is getting higher and higher, and the long-term heat leads to high fever, dehydration, hypoxia, coma, and even circulatory system failure.

2. Wear less indoors: How much is appropriate for your baby indoors? If there is no heating equipment in the room, then it is enough for the baby to wear close-fitting cotton underwear + thin sweater/ cotton thread jacket + vest on the upper body, and wearing close-fitting underwear + close-fitting cotton autumn pants + plush pants on the bottom. In a room with heating, your baby only needs to reduce the number of pieces compared to adults.

Outdoor warmth is the most suitable

1. Be sure to wear autumn pants: not only can you keep warm, but the role of underwear is actually greater. Soft cotton underwear can not only absorb sweat, but also block the loss of body temperature, if the baby does not wear underwear, the body surface heat dissipation is very fast, it is easy to catch a cold.

2. Warm sweaters to wear well: sweaters and pants are basically worn by every baby, but considering the baby's soft skin, it is necessary to consider safety factors when purchasing clothes and pants with a sweater texture. Baby's sweater pants should be soft, comfortable, light, can not be easy to balloon, hair loss, otherwise inhalation of the baby's trachea or wrapped around the baby's fingers will be troublesome. Now it is more recommended to wear a sweatshirt to avoid eczema babies touching the wool to aggravate eczema.

3. Thick cotton clothes should be light and thin: thick clothes, whether it is cotton clothes or down jackets, are not more bulky and warm, puffed cotton, down can absorb air to form a protective layer of thermal energy, do not let cold air enter, has a good warm effect. In fact, the thick down jacket has a good wind shielding effect, but when it comes to keeping warm, it is not as effective as a small cotton coat.

4. Small socks should be dry: pay attention to the warmth of the feet, do you have to wear thick socks? In fact, the socks are thick but do not absorb sweat, so it is easy to be humid, a lot of moisture will squeeze out the air in the fiber, the baby's small feet will be cold, so it is important to choose pure cotton and breathable socks.

Dressing tips

Children's limb circulation is poor, and the hands and feet are often cold in winter, so touching the hands and feet does not determine whether the child wears more or less. The correct way is to touch the back of the neck, if the skin at the junction of the baby's neck and back is warm and normal, it means that it is appropriate to wear; if the back feels wet, indicating excessive warmth, you should reduce clothing.

In addition, under the premise of determining that there is no illness, if the child's hands and feet are cold, there are small goosebumps, sweat hair erection and other phenomena, indicating that the warmth is not enough, you need to increase clothes and increase room temperature.

If you are worried that the baby will catch a cold if you inhale cold air, then wear a mask and do not cover the baby's mouth and nose with a scarf, because the scarf is mostly fiber products, and the inhalation of wool fibers in the body of the baby with allergies is easy to induce asthma.

Author: Yin Xiaomei, head nurse in charge of pediatrics at the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University

Edit: Sun Mengxin

Review: Zhang Leli