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- Medical Video: HE WORE DIAPERS IN PUBLIC!
- Wearing a diaper for too long can cause diaper rash
- How to prevent diaper rash in babies?
Medical Video: HE WORE DIAPERS IN PUBLIC!
Babies usually urinate and defecate more often, so baby diapers must be replaced more often. Maybe, babies need to change diapers up to 10 or more times a day. This can be a tiring thing for the mother, especially if the baby is wearing cloth diapers, of course the mother's laundry is getting a lot more.
Then now to make it easier for mothers, many disposable diapers (diapers) products have sprung up with various brands. Mothers only need to throw away the disposable diapers if they are dirty or full. This disposable diaper can accommodate the baby's urination more than once. However, in the presence of disposable diapers, sometimes there are mothers who tend to let their babies wear diapers for too long. Well, this situation can actually bring a bad influence on the baby.
Wearing a diaper for too long can cause diaper rash
Indeed, using disposable diapers is very easy for mothers, but the use of these diapers can actually cause babies to experience diaper rash if mothers are lazy to change diapers. In fact, sometimes mom forgets to change her baby's diaper or not. Mothers sometimes don't know how many times their babies have defecated. Mothers tend to wait for their diapers to be full or even leak, just change their diapers with new ones.
Habits like this can cause diaper rash in babies. Diaper rash can cause the baby to become uncomfortable on the buttocks. The skin on the baby's buttocks can become sore, reddish, sensitive, there are small red spots on the baby's buttocks, it can even spread to the baby's thighs and abdomen.
Baby's skin is irritated due to friction between the skin and the diaper that is too long, both in the diaper that is dirty or wet, and the diaper is still clean. So, you should not wait until the diaper is full to replace it with a new one. If you feel the use of diapers is very long, although not dirty at all, you should also replace it.
Apart from being irritated, diaper rash can also be caused by infection. This infection occurs when the diaper is full of baby's urine (urine) but doesn't change. Baby urine changes the pH level of the skin which allows the growth of bacteria and fungi. The use of diapers also inhibits air circulation, so that the baby's buttocks become moist, where the condition also supports the development of bacteria and fungi. The development of bacteria and fungi causes diaper rash in infants.
Babies who have sensitive skin can also experience diaper rash. Even not only diapers that can cause a rash on the skin, the use of detergents, soap, or unsuitable tissue can also cause rashes on the baby's sensitive skin. Therefore, you should not arbitrarily choose products for babies, choose products that do not contain fragrances.
How to prevent diaper rash in babies?
To prevent diaper rash in infants, you just need to make sure the baby's skin is dry and clean. One more important thing is to routinely change baby diapers, even if the baby is not defecating or small. Do not let the baby wear the diaper until full or even leak. This is to prevent irritation of the baby's skin.
Some things you can do to prevent diaper rash are:
- Change your baby's dirty or wet diapers as soon as possible and also clean the baby's bottom thoroughly. Clean the baby's bottom from front to back. Never clean the baby's buttocks from back to front, especially in baby girls, because this can cause bacterial spread. Clean the baby's bottom with warm water and a small towel.
- Before putting the baby on a new diaper, let the baby's bottom dry first. You can use a dry towel to dry the baby's bottom. Dry it by gently patting it, not by rubbing the baby's bottom with a towel, this will irritate the skin.
- Don't put baby diapers tight. Give a little leeway to prevent friction between the skin and diapers and to facilitate air circulation. Usually the diaper will leave a sign if it is worn too tightly.
- Change baby diapers every 2 hours, and after the baby defecates or small. Try to keep the baby not all day wearing diapers, the longer the baby does not wear diapers, the better. Whenever your baby doesn't wear a diaper, lay him on a towel.
- You can apply a cream or diaper ointment containing zinc or titanium dioxide oxide every time you change a baby's diaper. This can help prevent irritation of sensitive baby's skin, but not all babies need this.
- If babies wear cloth diapers, you should wash with detergent that does not contain fragrances and do not use softeners. Use hot water to wash it and rinse two or three times until the soap is completely gone from the diaper.
- If babies use disposable diapers, you should choose diapers that are able to absorb properly to avoid irritating baby's skin.
