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"Spring cover" is just in time, so "spring cover", are you right? Fan Mama found the nearest street, "cotton clothes and short sleeves fly together, autumn pants and stockings are the same color." "I can wear everything.
Some parents are worried that their children wear less cold, and they would rather wear more than they dare to wear less, which can also be understood, after all, it is not long before the spring turns warm, the temperature is low in the morning and evening, and the cold in the spring often occurs, so it is customary to keep the child warm.
So how much is appropriate for children to wear? Is it easier to get sick by wearing too much? How to see if the child is cold or hot? Next, we invite the well-known popular science V "Pediatric Horse Doctor" to talk to you.
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01 A must-see for studious parents
How much clothing is appropriate for children?
The dressing principles of children are different from those of adults, and because children are in the process of growing up, children of different ages dress differently.
Neonatal period (baby within 28 days of birth): Babies at this stage have relatively poor thermoregulation ability, and under the same temperature conditions, it is recommended to wear one more layer of clothing than adults.
Infant period (babies under 1 year old): It is recommended that babies of this age wear one more thin clothing than adults, and by touching the temperature at the back of the baby's neck, to determine whether it is appropriate to wear.
Early childhood (1-3 years old): Children at this age have a lot of activity, are more likely to sweat, and can wear one less piece than adults.
Children over 3 years old: Babies after early childhood, usually have basic expression skills, parents can judge the cold and warm according to their expression and touch the back of the neck, as long as they say it is not cold, do not chase them to add clothes.
02 Authoritarian parents must see
Why is it not recommended to wear too much for children?
Easy to catch a cold
Children who wear too little may be susceptible to colds. However, if the baby wears too much, it will be easy to sweat, be blown by the wind, and be more susceptible to colds, resulting in colds and other diseases.
Prone to skin diseases
Wearing too much is easy to sweat, sweating is also slow, not conducive to heat dissipation. At this time, the skin is easy to breed bacteria, if the skin is itchy or the clothes are too tight, it will increase the friction between the clothes and the skin, which can easily lead to the occurrence of some skin diseases.
It can easily lead to fever syndrome
Because parents give children, especially small babies too much to wear, it will hinder the heat in the baby's body from being dissipated to the outside world, resulting in higher and higher temperatures in the quilt.
Babies do not know how to express, long-term high temperature can easily lead to high fever, dehydration, hypoxia, coma, and even respiratory, circulatory failure and other serious consequences.
How to tell if a child is hot or cold?
Wrong practice: Judge by touching your child's hands and feet.
Because the limbs are far from the heart, and the child's heart function is not as strong as that of adults, every time the contraction is contracted, the blood pumped out by the heart will reach the end of the limbs less, so under normal circumstances, the child's hands and feet will be cold.
Tips: When your child's hands and feet are hot, be sure to use a thermometer to measure your body temperature in time. Because at this time, the child may have a fever and other situations.
The right thing to do: Judge by touching the back of your child's neck.
If the back of the child's neck is warm and dry, it means that the clothes are worn just right; if the back of the child's neck is cold, it means that the clothes are worn less and need to be added in time; if the back neck sweats, it means that the child wears more clothes and should appropriately reduce the clothes.
04 Tangled parents must see
Remember the onion dressing method
Due to the baby's large amount of exercise, fast metabolism, and easy sweating, the onion dressing method is especially suitable for children:
The inner layer is soft, breathable and sweat-wicking + the middle layer is warm + the outer layer is windproof and rainproof.
Finally, Dr. Ma instructed:
The temperature difference between early spring morning and evening is relatively large, so wearing several layers of slightly thinner clothes, not only has a better warm effect, parents can also add or subtract clothes to their children in time according to changes in indoor and outdoor temperature.
Well, today I will share it with you here, thank you Dr. Ma for squeezing out time to share useful popular science knowledge with you, original is not easy, family members remember to like and forward Oh ~ ~
Resources:
[1] Liao Jianli, "How to Pay Attention to Children's Hot and Cold", Family Medicine and Medical Selection, No. 6, 2020;
[2] Steven Shelford. American Academy of Pediatrics Parenting Encyclopedia 0-5 years old. Beijing Science and Technology Press,2012:65.]