Tips For Care Little Baby in Summer Season

It is a real challenge for little baby in summer, especially for baby under one-year-old. Summer means torridity and aquosity, due to little baby has low disease resistance and poor adaptability, a temporary absentminded care might cause disease. Therefore, in order to maintain the health of little baby in sumer, parents need to take preventive measures and do a good job on caring baby's clothing, food, housing and so on. Below are some tips for caring little baby in summer:

1. Wear little baby with loose clothes to keep ventilation and cool

Baby's clothes should be loose-bodied and soft, so that it is convenient for activities, ventilated and cool; if high temperature weather, children can wear vests and shorts, the appropriate material choice of the clothes could be soft cotton, linen, silk and so on to facilitate sweat absorbing and heat eliminating; the colors of clothes should be light and cool oriented so as to reduce heat radiation. Don’t even wrap baby like the “candle package” in order to facilitate heat dissipation.

2. Keep healthy diet and reasonable nutrition preparation

As the impact of high temperature, children will lose appetite or become anorexia. Therefore, the diet should be soft, easy to digest, insipid and rich in nutrition. To eat more fresh vegetables, melon and fruit, fish, shrimp, lean meat and bean products etc. And baby can also eat some porridge commonly which can clear heat and eliminating dampness, such as lotus seeds porridge and mung bean porridge etc. If baby sweats a lot, he should be supplied with water and salt in time. It is not suitable to drink much cold water. Pay attention to the food hygiene, prevent baby getting ill by the mouth and the occurrence of intestine infection.

3. Take measures to prevent too hot and too wet

Baby's living room should be ventilated and cool, quiet and clean. Room temperature should be maintained at 20-25 degrees and relative humidity should be 40%-60%. Ensuring adequate baby sleep, which should be no less than 9 to 10 hours a day. Do not use electric fans when sleeping to prevent cold. Don’t allow baby to stay in air-conditioned room all day to prevent diseases caused by air-conditioning. Take a warm water bath for baby in the evening and cover baby's belly with towel quilt to prevent cold and diarrhea. If baby sweat a lot, change and wash his wet clothes frequently to prevent heatstroke and heat rash.

4. Avoid heat and stay at cool place to prevent any eventuality

The sunlight is strong in summertime and contains a large number of ultraviolet. Strong sunlight will burn baby's tender skin and if the head of baby expose under the strong sunlight directly, it will also cause heatstroke. Therefore, baby should stay at home and have a rest during midday. It is not allowed to take baby out or even travel. If baby have to go out, they should wear a wide border straw-hat or take an umbrella to avoid the direct sunlight. And you must prepare sufficient drinking water such as salt water, sugar water and so on. You may also bring some medicine for clearing away summer heat, such as Rendan, rheo-camphoradin, essential balm, ageratum liquid medicine and so on to prevent heatstroke.