Can babies wear thermal underwear? Is it okay for babies to wear thermal underwear?

Thermal underwear is a kind of clothing that everyone wears in autumn and winter. Many parents are afraid that their children will catch cold, so they will change their babies into thermal underwear. Although thermal underwear has a good warming effect, it is actually not suitable for babies to wear thermal underwear.

It is recommended not to put thermal underwear on your baby. Even in winter, if you put on thick thermal underwear, your baby will sweat when he/she moves around. It is very inconvenient to put on and take off. If you don't change the underwear, the baby will sweat and get cold when he/she changes. This will make him/her sick. Children have a strong metabolism and are afraid of heat but not cold. Moreover, children are often in a state of non-stop activity, so children must wear less than adults. As the saying goes, "If you want your child to be safe, you must take three points of hunger and cold" is true. To judge whether the child is wearing the right clothes, don't touch his/her hands, but touch his/her neck. If it is smooth, it is suitable. If it is sticky, it means he/she is sweating and wearing too much. Or you can run with your child to see how many clothes you can wear.

Because most of the thermal underwear on the market are made of composite sandwich materials, they can effectively prevent the air inside the clothes from exchanging with the cold air outside, thus playing a better warming role. However, the baby's body temperature regulation ability is immature and it is easy to sweat. The breathability of thermal underwear is poor. If the sweat soaks the clothes wrapped around the body, it is easy to catch a cold. In addition, the fabric of thermal underwear may not be all cotton. It may be polyester, which contains chemical fiber components. It is easy to generate static electricity due to friction with the human body, clothing, etc., causing the human skin to lose moisture and increase dandruff. In winter, the skin is originally dry. If you wear thermal underwear close to your body, it will aggravate this itching. Therefore, in winter, you should choose pure cotton underwear with good breathability and warmth to keep your baby warm. If you must choose thermal underwear, do not choose sandwich materials, try not to wear it close to your body, and you can put a pure cotton autumn clothes inside to avoid friction with the skin.

1. Wear more → sweat more → skin disease

In the coldest days of winter, I have seen children with prickly heat in the outpatient clinic. They came to the doctor with rashes all over their bodies, and it was all prickly heat. The speed of cooling down cannot keep up with the speed of adding clothes, nor the speed of increasing indoor temperature. Children wear three layers inside and three layers outside, sweat a lot, block the sweat ducts, and the skin is not breathable. It is not cleaned well, which can easily cause prickly heat, eczema, and impetigo.

2. Wearing more clothes → less urine → urinary and reproductive system diseases

Children who wear more clothes sweat more, their urine volume decreases, and their urine becomes concentrated, which increases the irritation and damage to the urethral mucosa, causing vulvitis or balanitis. If the vulvitis is not cleaned well, the infection will go back and cause urinary tract infection.

3. Wearing too much → dry stool → anal fissure, constipation, abdominal distension, indigestion

Wearing too many clothes and sweating a lot, if you cannot guarantee drinking water, it will cause dry stools, and the stools will become dense, coarse and hard, causing difficulty in defecation. Children will suffer from anal fissures and bleeding if they force themselves to defecate, and fear of defecation will cause constipation. If the child does not have a bowel movement for two or three days, he or she will experience abdominal distension and loss of appetite.

4. Wear more clothes → dry stool → fever and cough

Careful parents will find that children often have dry stools or constipation before or at the same time as respiratory symptoms such as fever and cough. According to Chinese medicine theory, the lungs and large intestine are exterior and interior to each other. If the large intestine is blocked, the lung heat cannot be discharged, which easily leads to fever, cough and other symptoms. If children wear too many clothes, dry stools will not only cause digestive symptoms, but also be a very important factor in causing respiratory infections.

Texture: Whether it is pure cotton is the first factor to consider when choosing baby clothes. The fabric should not contain fluorescent ingredients.

Color: Many babies have the problem of biting clothes, but the pigments of light-colored fabrics are more durable and are not easily eaten into the stomach; at the same time, soft colors will not have a huge "impact" on the baby's retina.

Style: Underwear should not have large buttons, zippers, buckles, pins, etc. to prevent damage to the child's skin or swallowing. When buying outerwear with decorations, mothers must carefully observe whether the decorations are firm.

Craftsmanship: When buying clothes, you should check the workmanship, such as whether the zippers and seams of the clothes are sewn smoothly, the stitches should be small, and there should be no residual threads; the labels of underwear should be sewn on the outside of the clothes to avoid abrasions on the child's delicate skin.

After wearing: If your child's skin becomes red, itchy, or he or she develops a rash or coughs after wearing new clothes, he or she may be allergic to certain ingredients in the clothes. The best way to eliminate allergens is to change the clothes immediately.

Touch: The softness of clothing is also a hard indicator. If it feels rough or grainy, it means the fabric is not up to standard; if it feels hard, the formaldehyde content may exceed the limit.

Smell: Excess formaldehyde will release a pungent odor; a smell similar to motor oil tells you that your clothes are being contaminated; and fragrance is the "residual poison" of chemicals or harmful ingredients, which should not be tolerated.