Can a baby take a bath when he has diarrhea? What is the best way to take a bath when a baby has diarrhea?

If a baby has diarrhea, there will be various precautions. So, can a baby take a bath when he has diarrhea?

Can a baby take a bath when he has diarrhea?

Your baby can take a bath during diarrhea, but be careful about the water temperature and keep warm to avoid catching a cold.

Babies can take a bath when they have diarrhea, as long as they keep warm, but it is best to take a sitz bath to clean. When babies have diarrhea due to viral gastroenteritis and other reasons, it is easy for rashes to appear on their buttocks, so it is best to take a sitz bath at this time, so that the child's buttocks can be fully cleaned. In addition, when cleaning the baby's buttocks, you must be careful to avoid infection, so when mothers wipe the baby's buttocks, they must pay attention to the cleanliness of their hands.

Although we emphasize the importance of being careful and attentive in infant care, it does not mean that we should go too far. We should not not bathe the baby for fear of catching a cold again. This idea is wrong. Baby hygiene is an important part of infant care, but even for sick babies, doctors recommend that parents should keep the baby clean and hygienic in time. As long as you control the water temperature and room temperature during the bathing process, you can avoid catching a cold again. Some babies get sick due to viral infections. If you do not bathe them for this reason, it will only deepen the bacterial infection in the baby.

What is the best way to take a bath?

(1) Preparation before bathing

1. Environment

Close doors and windows, keep the room temperature at 26-28 degrees, and reduce convection wind.

2. Supplies

Bathing water: The water volume should reach 1/2 of the basin, and the water temperature should be about 38-40℃. You can test the temperature with the inside of your wrist, and the temperature that is neither too cold nor too hot is the right temperature.

Prepare clean clothes, two small towels for bathing, a large towel for wiping, alcohol, cotton swabs, and nail clippers for trimming nails.

3. Parents

Before bathing the baby, parents should trim their nails and take off any jewelry on their hands to prevent the jewelry from scratching the baby's delicate skin.

4. Baby

Take off the baby's clothes, put away the diaper, and wrap the baby in a blanket. Check the baby's skin to make sure it is intact and not infected before bathing.

(2) Bathing process

1. Wash your baby’s face

Dip the first small towel in water and wring it out until there is no dripping water. Use the four corners of the towel to wipe the baby's eyes (from the inside to the outside), nose and mouth.

Then soak the towel in water and wring it dry. Use the four sides of the towel to wipe the baby's forehead, cheeks and jaw respectively. Be careful not to scrub repeatedly as it is unhygienic.

2. Wash your baby’s hair

Hold the baby up, with the mother's five fingers open, supporting the baby's head and neck. Use the elbow joints to clamp the baby's waist and hips, as close to your body as possible. Use the thumb and middle finger of the left hand to fold the baby's ears forward and gently press them to prevent water from entering the ear canal.

When washing your baby's hair, keep the baby's head slightly lowered and be careful not to let water enter the baby's eyes and nose. Wet the baby's hair with a small towel, take 1-2 drops of shampoo (use 1-2 times a week), rinse with clean water, and dry with a dry towel.

3. Wash your baby’s body

The mother holds the baby's left arm near the shoulder with her left hand, lets the baby's head and neck rest on her left wrist, keeps the baby's neck neutral, does not let the head lean back or forward excessively, supports the baby's waist and hips, and places the baby in the basin of water.

Use a small towel to wet the baby's body. The order of wiping is: neck, baby's outer armpit, upper arm, forearm and hand; near armpit, upper arm, forearm and hand. Wet the small towel again and wipe the baby's chest, abdomen and groin (thigh root) in turn.

Next, the mother passes her right hand through the baby's left armpit and lets the baby lie on her right wrist. The baby's head is tilted to one side at an angle of more than 60 degrees. Wipe the baby's back, buttocks, thighs, calves and feet in turn.

(3) Post-bath work

1. Wipe clean water

After washing the baby, take the baby out, wrap the baby in a large bath towel, and wipe off the water on the baby's body.

2. Wearing diapers

Make sure your baby's diaper is tight enough to fit a finger in.

3. Wear clothes

When dressing your baby, wrap the baby's hands with your own hands and put them into the sleeves. Then, pull the baby's hands out at the cuffs, and then dress the other side in the same way.

What should I eat to cure my baby's diarrhea?

When your baby has diarrhea, you can give him more foods that have antidiarrheal effects, such as apples, carrots, etc. You can also give him more foods that are easily digestible.

1. Boil apples. Boiled apples have astringent effects. Giving your baby one apple a day can help relieve diarrhea. When boiling apples, boil them in water or add some rock sugar, so that your baby will like them more.

2. Egg yolk diet: Boil the eggs, remove the shells and egg whites, and simmer the egg yolks in a pot over low heat to extract oil. Infants under one year old can take one egg yolk oil a day, divided into 2-3 doses, for a course of 3 days to treat diarrhea, and it has the effect of tonifying the spleen and stomach and stopping diarrhea.

3. Scorched rice soup: First grind rice flour or milk cake into powder, fry until it turns yellow, then add appropriate amount of water and sugar, and then fry it into a paste. After adding water to the rice flour and then heating it, its carbonized structure has a good adsorption and antidiarrheal effect.

4. Carrot soup: Carrots are alkaline foods. The pectin they contain can promote stool formation and absorb bacteria and toxins on the intestinal mucosa. It is a good antidiarrheal food.

5. Chestnut paste meal: Use 3-5 chestnuts, shell and mash them, add water and cook into paste, add sugar and season, eat 2-3 times a day, it has the effect of warming the middle and stopping diarrhea. In addition, orange and jujube tea, carrot soup, etc. also have the effect of strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea.

6. Rice porridge. When your baby has diarrhea, give him more rice porridge, which is easy to digest and nutritious. Do not feed your baby hard food when he has diarrhea. It is better to cook the rice porridge until it is soft.

What to pay attention to when your baby has diarrhea

(1) Rehydration: Diarrhea without dehydration or mild dehydration can be treated at home by taking oral salt supplements. The first step in the treatment plan is to replenish water in time to prevent and correct dehydration.

(2) Nutritional supplement: To prevent malnutrition, babies with diarrhea should continue to be breastfed. If they are bottle-fed, they should continue to eat dairy products on a daily basis, but the amount can be reduced. If the baby does not get better after treatment at home, and has symptoms such as multiple watery stools, frequent vomiting, obvious thirst, inability to eat normally, persistent fever, and blood in the stool, they should go to the hospital for treatment immediately.