Baby care course How to care for baby’s belly button correctly

First of all, let’s talk about the consequences of improper treatment of the newborn’s belly button:

The belly button is the first wound that occurs in the baby. If it is not handled carefully, bacteria can easily accumulate, become inflamed, ulcerate, and spread to deep parts. It causes peritoneal inflammation in the abdominal cavity and can even lead to systemic infection and sepsis. Under normal care, the umbilical cord will naturally dry and fall off about seven to ten days after the baby is born. The newly fallen navel is like a wound on the skin, which will ooze some blood, so it needs special treatment, otherwise it will cause adverse changes. .

Then let’s talk about the accurate treatment method of newborn’s belly button: Regardless of whether the umbilical cord has fallen off after the baby comes home, the belly button treatment that parents need to do mainly includes the following three steps:

< p>1. Clean the navel: Every day when your baby takes a bath, the navel area also needs to be cleaned, including using soap, and going deep into the bottom (white part). Pay attention to the white umbilical cord (not the black and hard dry umbilical cord). Don’t be afraid. The baby is in pain; the baby only feels it in the navel, but it won’t hurt, just like nails, when you cut your nails, you will feel it but it won’t hurt.

2. Dry the navel: After cleaning, the moisture in the navel area should be wiped clean with a cotton swab.

3. Apply pure alcohol: Finally, use a cotton swab dipped in 95% alcohol to wipe the belly button, starting from the root (or recess) of the umbilical cord and rubbing outward to the skin, and can be Every time you change a diaper, check whether the navel is dry. If the navel is moist, repeat the above action (wipe it again with 95% alcohol).

*After the umbilical cord falls off, the treatment steps are the same as above.

*To prevent direct friction from the diaper, cover the belly button with clean, breathable "thin" gauze and secure it with tape.

* Try to keep two "dries" in the belly button: "clean" and "dry".

* Pay attention to keeping the navel dry to prevent the diaper from soaking it. A hot and humid navel can easily harbor dirt and cause inflammation.

*Whenever handling the belly button, try to gently pull the dry umbilical cord that has not fallen off so that it can fall off as soon as possible. But don't pull hard, otherwise the blood will continue to flow out because the blood vessels at the root below have not been completely sealed. A little bleeding is nothing serious.

*Be careful not to use betadine, ointment, sesame oil, or unknown medicinal powder.