Did Mabao use her baby's diaper as a sanitary towel?

The weather is hot, and many parents are beginning to worry about their baby's little ass, aren't they? Does a diaper that feels thick make your baby feel stuffy? Red buttocks, how to do diaper rash? The elders at home have been saying that traditional diapers are better. Should they be replaced with diapers?

To make a choice, we must first understand things from a scientific perspective, so let's talk about diapers and traditional diapers with our relatives and hot moms today!

Case:

When a precious mother was still in the hospital after giving birth, her husband's classmates came to visit with her children. Seeing that the child was wearing diapers, she suggested changing diapers. The other party has been a mother for several years and belongs to the "predecessor". The husband asked with a heart for advice: "Will diapers be uncomfortable?" -"Of course, ask your wife if it is comfortable to wear sanitary napkins. Children are that feeling! "

Ma Bao wasn't around when she said this, and her husband relayed it to Ma Bao afterwards, which surprised Ma Bao. A young woman born in 1980s, who has a high degree of education and has been a mother for several years, lacks common sense-this common sense is not to say which is better than diapers, but to equate diapers with sanitary napkins. Let's start from this point. Diapers and sanitary napkins are not comparable.

Diapers equal sanitary napkins? Mom, don't be silly! ! !

Why start with sanitary napkins?

Because many parents' misunderstanding of diapers began here, a thing that everyone used and felt uncomfortable. As we all know, sanitary napkins are made of plastic and play the role of waterproof layer, while diapers are not this layer (or the materials of the two surface layers are different). Regardless of the difference between the two manufacturing processes, we can know it with the naked eye.

After the baby wets the diaper, before changing the diaper, will parents feel a little wet when they touch the outside of the diaper? This shows that diapers are breathable. On the contrary, sanitary napkins will never do this.

If you search online for the ingredients of sanitary napkins and diapers, the ingredients you find look similar, such as PE breathable film, non-woven fabric, paper pulp, polymer water-absorbent resin and so on. But in fact, in the production process of sanitary napkins and diapers, the quality of raw materials and the proportion of these ingredients are very different.

Take polymer water-absorbent resin as an example: super-absorbent resin is a new functional polymer material. It has high water absorption function hundreds to thousands times heavier than itself and excellent water retention performance. Once it absorbs water and swells into hydrogel, it is difficult to separate water even under pressure-that is, it not only has strong water absorption, but also can prevent reverse osmosis.

In the diaper after wet urine, the polymer water-absorbent resin absorbs water and expands. Polymer water-absorbent resin, because there are enough gaps between particles, can also play a good role in ventilation. In high-quality diapers, this polymer absorbent resin is more than cotton wool, while sanitary napkins are just the opposite, with more cotton wool.

Diapers equal sanitary napkins? Mom, don't be silly! ! !

Why? Because sanitary napkins are not used to absorb urine, but menstrual blood. Polymer water-absorbent resin is not suitable for absorbing viscous liquid, and the cost is much higher, so it is only 20-30% in sanitary napkins. When buying diapers, parents should also pay attention to this point: high-end diapers have good breathability because they use polymer absorbent resin and wood pulp; However, due to cost reasons, the proportion of lining components of low-end diapers is similar to that of sanitary napkins, with poor water absorption and air permeability, which is easy to seep back, leading to red buttocks.

Which is more breathable, diapers or traditional diapers?

If you think that diapers feel thicker than diapers, it means that the air permeability is poor, then it is wrong. Which of the two has good air permeability must be analyzed in detail. The advantage of traditional diapers is that they feel light and soft and the fabric is breathable. But remember, this is a diaper in a dry state. Once the cloth is wet, it is airtight (if you don't believe me, please soak cotton-padded jacket and wear it next to your body 10 minutes to experience it).

Diapers are breathable in dry state, but they are not as light and soft as traditional diapers. However, their advantage is that children are still dry and breathable after getting wet. This is because the main materials inside-wood pulp and polymer water-absorbent resin-can keep natural gaps in the water-absorbent state.

What are the functions of diapers and diapers?

It is the child who receives urine after getting wet, so the key point is whether he can breathe after getting wet, especially when he doesn't change urine in time-because parents will notice that the child is wet at any time. In this way, diapers are more dominant.

Diapers equal sanitary napkins? Mom, don't be silly! ! !

Which is better in water absorption, diapers or traditional diapers?

Comparing the water absorption of the two, the focus is on permeability. Infiltration refers to whether water will overflow after being absorbed. Traditional diapers will inevitably seep back. Ordinary cloth fibers can't prevent the two-way conduction of urine, that is, when a certain amount of absorption is reached, urine will permeate from the surface of the cloth in two directions, which means urine leakage outside and reverse osmosis inside.

Healthy skin should be dry, while moist skin is very fragile. Re-infiltrated urine will keep the baby's private skin moist (called "flooding" and "covering" in some places), which will eventually cause skin redness and diaper rash.

The part of the diaper that sticks to the child is non-woven and has a certain semi-permeable membrane performance. It prevents the penetration of water molecules through micron-sized air holes, ensures the smoothness of air, and keeps the surface of diapers dry (the same is true for the outer membrane, which is different from sanitary napkins). In other words, a good diaper has extremely low permeability and can keep dry and breathable, which is better than diapers.

If parents must choose traditional diapers, remind the following points:

1, be sure to check the child's condition at any time to ensure that the child will be replaced immediately after getting wet. When you sleep at night or go out to play, you may not notice that your child is wet immediately. It is recommended to wear diapers.