What should parents do, noticing the child the first manifestations of the Pad? What treatment should a doctor appoint? Answers to these questions you will find in the article.
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The symptoms of the dress
Potna may appear under diapers.
Symptoms:
- redness;
- itching;
- bubbles;
- Speech on the skin moisture;
- soft crust around the genital zone;
- rash on scrotum, penis or skin folds between legs and genitals;
- scratches where the edges of the diaper relate to the skin;
- irritation around anal hole, skin irritation buttocks.
The disease can be caused by fungal infections, bacterial infections, irritation from unclean diapers, allergic reactions or manifestations of hereditary skin disease.
What should parents do
Avoid using not dried completely diaper. Stick one type of diaper, especially those that seem to reduce the likelihood of the disease. Frequently change diapers. Wellenge not tight.
Avoid wiping, as they can cause skin irritation. Instead, use warm water for washing the skin, and then spend it with cotton wool in it, impregnated with vegetable oil or children's cream. Get skin dry with soft cloth. By the way, bathing is not only an important procedure that allows you to keep the skin of the child clean, she harden his harden.
You can start the bathing kid immediately after discharge from the maternity hospital. Before the healing of the umbilical wounds, you need to add a solution of manganese to the weary color to the water.
Healthy infants bathe daily, and with soap 1 time in 5-6 days. Bathing duration of about 5 minutes., Water temperature 36-37° With (for measuring temperature use a special aqueous thermometer if it is not - «Thermometer» can serve to elbow mothers). While the child is small, it is convenient to bathe, using a special stand from the fabric on a metal frame. Then you will feel more confident, and baby - out of danger.
You need to get ready for swimming in advance: let you have everything will be at hand - both soap, and a soft mittens for launches of a child, and a jug with water for pouring at the very end of swimming, and a large terry towel, so that you finish the baby immediately after the bath. The water temperature in the jug must be 2°With lower than in the bath. It hardens a child well. No need to warm the air of the room, where you bathe a child, usually do at room temperature (20-22°WITH). After bathing - quickly wipe and wrap the child.
If the Pepper has already begun, you can use a protective pharmacy ointment (Desitin, Balmeks). Then use the preventive measures described above. If you use talc, do not shake it. Pour the talc in the palm and praise her the skin of the child. (Remember: Talc when inhalation can cause pneumonia).
Corn starch powder helps well.
What should a doctor do
If the Padman continues for quite a long time or is not amenable to conventional treatment, after the survey, a culture analysis should be carried out, make a scraping or biopsy for microscopic examination. These tests will help determine if a mushroom disease is caused, which can be treated with a local anti-grab drug, or bacteria that will have to be treated with antibiotics. Biopsy can also be used to help the doctor to distinguish psoriasis from allergic dermatitis.
