lundi 27 décembre 2010

Children's Skin Care: Problems and Solutions

Instead of preface, or "I want the priest as in advertising!

With the greatest possible chance this story will read a new mother. Mom baby the first year of life. Lucky her motherhood, but terribly tired pregnancy, childbirth, children's whims, a chronic lack of sleep and advice of relatives.

Even very sleepy and very tired woman sometimes watches TV. TV, regularly showing the priests of the two species. First, female priests. Secondly, the priests children. Both species demonstrated Pop generate an irresistible desire to have exactly the same.

Women's priests are the subject of our discussions are not. Want, such as in advertising - Collect, organize, diet, sports massage: it all depends on you.

Children's pop - soft, velvety, Gorny, mouthwatering ... I pop - a dream! No stains, no acne or irritation. No pain, no itching, no way. Happy!

What your baby's butt is not so? Case remedied, but, paradoxically, the state priests of child depends in turn on you, or more precisely on what conditions you will create your child.

That's about it: about the conditions and peculiarities of children's skin and about potential issues, on how to solve them - we'll talk.

"Ah, what a tenderness!", Or especially children's skin

Age of the person most easily identified by the state of his skin. This obvious fact is well known to anyone who at least sometimes looking at myself in the mirror. In this regard (ie, with regard to looking into the mirror) it is obvious that my mother thought about the state of the skin far more than the pope, and the frequency of these thoughts directly related to age thinking.

Skin "soft, velvety, Gorny, curvy" - children's skin. One could write a lot every intelligent about why it is so. But then we need to eat quite scary phrases like "apocrine glands devoid of secretory granules, and ekkrinnye cancer have a greater density."

So let's leave aside the highly scientific umnosti and consider the peculiarities of children's skin is available on the domestic language.

So:

1. Children have underdeveloped sweat glands, and the child is younger, the more pronounced this underdevelopment. As a result - the child is experiencing great difficulties with heat transfer through the sweat, why does it (dumps excess heat) through the lungs. Dry and warm air can not fully give heat through the respiratory system, as a result - dramatically increases the load on the immature sweat glands and this leads to skin damage.

2. The topmost layer of skin (so-called. Stratum corneum) in children compared to adults, first, much thinner and, secondly, not firmly connected to the other (lower) layers of skin. Because of this children's skin is easily damaged - enough even minor physical and chemical effects. A large number of blood vessels and active metabolism create conditions for very rapid healing, but recovery is possible only when the rectified factor causing skin damage.

3. Children's skin is rich in fats (lipids), which are the solvents of the set of substances potentially capable of damaging the skin. As a consequence, the substances, in most cases, absolutely not dangerous for mom and dad (biosystem detergent, ammonia, urine, fecal enzymes, etc.) penetrate the skin, dissolving in lipids, and cause inflammation.

List is quite possible to continue (at least another 15 points will be typed). Nevertheless, three of these features, first, most important, and secondly, can not only move to the next chapter, but guess what it will be discussed.

Children's skin, her enemies and friends

Already known to us, especially children's skin, you can easily answer the question of what exactly the skin is good and bad.

Enumeration, we start with the most significant factor - it goes on the air that breathes a child.

Paradox lies in the fact that the relationship between the parameters of air and the skin does not seem at first sight apparent. Nevertheless, there is no children's skin greater enemy than the dry and warm air. The answer to the question why it happens, we already know, but once again repeat the effect of special importance: in a dry and warm air is considerably increased burden on the imperfect system of thermoregulation. Activated, and without an active circulation in the skin, working hard immature sweat glands, as a result - their sensitivity to external damaging factors increases dramatically.

The optimal parameters of air in the room where the healthy full-term baby the first year of life - the temperature around 20 ° C and relative humidity of 50-70%.

Dry - use humidifiers, hot - close radiators ... Never forget that the cool air brand name viagra does not excuse the fact that the child was freezing. The essence of the "optimal settings" consists precisely in the fact that as soon as the child adjusts the heat transfer is mainly light, so ideally it needs a cool moist air, but without fail - warm clothing that will protect the baby from hypothermia.

It is obvious that in a country where at least six months lasts heating season, to maintain the recommended air parameters is not easy. But if not, if you still warm and there is no way to humidify - this does not mean that the skin must have a problem. This underlines the importance of proper skin care, elimination of other harmful factors, and active use of mineral factors. Aware of these factors, know the friends and enemies, we just have to skin, so try to enumerate them.

ENEMIES

* Overheating - hot, extra clothes, hot water during bathing.
* Dryness of air - heating, air conditioning.
* Mechanical damage to the skin - rubbing on clothing, crawling on the carpet, carelessness during hygienic procedures, etc.
* Chemicals that come in contact with the skin - disinfectants, detergents, chlorinated water, dyes, clothing, synthetic fabrics, substandard facilities, ostensibly designed for skin care.
* Soap - the enemy disguised, often mistaken for each other. It is only necessary to launder dirty, not just water and laundered wipes. Harmfulness can be reduced by selecting only liquid soap, and special classes designed for child care.
* Urine - primarily its constituent nitrogen compounds (eg ammonia).
* Cal - irritating enzymes + impact of numerous bacteria on the already damaged areas.

WARNING!

All of these hazards

multiplies the damaging effect of each other!

* Urine + faeces - this is not repetition, it is a fundamentally new hazardous, because the connection of feces with urine accompanied by a set of hazardous substances that can damage the skin much more active than just calories or only urine.

FRIENDS

* Instruments of control over the parameters of air - the thermometer and hygrometer.
* Radiators with regulators.
* Humidifiers - Steam and ultrasound.
* High-quality clothing - in size, are not injured skin from natural materials, colored dyes safe, wash children with special powders.
* Lack of clothing - yes, exactly! Even the best clothes - just a way of human adaptation to living in subhuman (physiologically unnatural) conditions. Skin contact with air (at least occasionally) - it is useful and necessary, is not only a solution to many problems, but prevention of their occurrence.
* Wet sanitary napkins - the safest way to clean the skin from dirt and kakashek (this item is particularly relevant in view not the best quality of water flowing from the tap).
* Filters to improve water quality - without comment.
* Care for the baby's skin - hydrating, dried, the recovery of damaged areas, protect from wind or mechanical damage, etc.

From the above list should be a logical conclusion: the care means healthy skin is not needed. Dry skin - apply moisturizers (oils, creams, lotions, balms). Wet skin - use tools podsushivayuschee (powder). There are real injuries - come to the aid healing drugs. And if everything is ok - so do not need it. Nevertheless raise a child in isolation from the damaging factors completely is not realistic. Air, water, household chemicals - where do all of this to hide? Rhetorical question. It is therefore clearly makes sense to regularly use of prophylactic hygiene products that enhance the stability of children's skin to the action of numerous damaging factors.

Example: on the street the wind and cold, and we're going for a walk. The child has healthy skin, but the processing entity barrier cream repeatedly reduce the likelihood of problems. That is, the skin is healthy, but the contact with "hazard" vysokoveroyaten and, consequently, the use of funds for the care and it is logical and appropriate.

Even if we lived in ideal environmental conditions, even if you provide the optimum temperature and humidity, even in our home from every faucet will be flowing artesian mineral water - and so, even in this case we can not prevent skin contact with the two major risks - with feces and urine.

Conclusion: The prophylactic treatment of the skin in places where contact with the feces and urine will need (groin, perineum, buttocks) that uniquely makes sense. Funds for such treatment exist, and their choice is huge. But there is, however, friends of the skin, providing the beauty of the priests several times more active than all the means to care together -

* Disposable nappies - capable due to the presence of specific adsorbents for a few seconds to turn a liquid into a gel and thereby reduce the damaging activity of multiple enzymes stool, absorb urine and prevent its contact with the feces.

Whose friend diapers?

Diapers - best friend baby skin! That begs an answer after studying the contents of the previous chapter. And the answer that is correct but incomplete. For the health of children's skin (contented smile + sleep + delicious pop) is comparable to the beneficial influence of a disposable diaper on the health of the family - time moms (free of drying, washing and ironing), dedicated myself and my father + is still the same sound sleep.

"Let them talk!" Or myths about nappies

Active widespread use of disposable diapers fundamentally changed the entire process of child care. Opportunities to make parenthood with happiness, and not exploit it became much more. Has a real chance to get enough sleep, do not erase from morning till night, hours to walk and admire the child regularly booty.

The current situation is sometimes not perceived psychologically women older generation (grandmothers), for which the fact of motherhood is equivalent to hard labor. Having in his youth through a horrendous experience (lack of sleep, laundry, ironing, screaming baby, diaper rash, hung around the house diaper, hungry, and also screaming dad, etc.), a woman subconsciously hopes that her daughter, repeating the feat of maternal will be able to appreciate the extent of my grandmother's sacrifice.

The situation described does not have mass distribution - the majority of grandparents are sincerely happy for a better life of their own children. But at least one in ten takes a disposable diaper as a malicious invention, interfering fully comprehend the true "joy" of motherhood. But the main problem lies in the fact that grandmothers are actively compose a variety of myths (tales, horror stories), telling of the terrible dangers associated with the use of diapers.

These myths invented by many, but some of them we just have to mention.

Diapers cause infertility in boys because the testicles like a cold, but inside the diaper, they overheat.

This is the main podguznikovaya horror story. On the one hand, we should recognize that figured out the phrase "balls like the cold," capable only of my grandmother - my grandfather is no one in the head and can not come. On the other hand, there is an urgent need to bring a number of more specific rebuttals:

* Up to 7 years there is no hint of the formation of sperm cells, can not hurt what is not;
* According to numerous studies, the average temperature of the scrotum, under nappy is 36 ° C, so that about any overheating, it is not in principle (note: it is not even about the temperature of the testicle, and the temperature of the scrotum!)
* Has already reached a mature and active (effectively) multiplies generation of boys grew up in nappies.

Greenhouse effect.

This beautifully sounding phrase grandmother storyteller describe "the atmosphere inside the diaper" - they say, there is not only hot, but wet (very wet). A high humidity is ruining the testes permanently. Paradoxically, everything is exactly the opposite: thanks to the specific properties of the adsorbent is no moisture is observed - this, in fact, the whole point of disposable diapers and built. Greenhouse Effect - the notion of referring more to reusable nappies, when going for a walk, in addition to gauze and diapers, baby still wrapped in oilcloth, since he had at any price to protect valuable quilt.

In order to close the topic of greenhouse effect finally, we note that in today's disposable diapers realized another (in addition to the adsorbent) technology to reduce moisture - a technology based on the use of microporous materials that provide air circulation (so-called. Breathable diapers).

Bandy legs.

Scarecrow totally senseless, because the flatness of the feet, in principle, does not have to diapers (any), no relation. Evenness feet is determined primarily by heredity, well, and then food, vitamin D and physical activity. Moreover, it is disposable diapers, providing breeding legs to mimic the well-known "broad diapering, and are an excellent way to prevent diseases of the hip joints.

Problems with habituation to the pot.

According to numerous studies conducted worldwide, the average age of habituation to the pot does not depend on the type of diapers and ranges from 22 to 30 months.

In most cases, the child is ready to learn "Pot science" at the age of 15-18 months and not before.

If the child is ready to learn, and parents are willing to teach, so the diaper is not a hindrance. If all are satisfied, the theme of the pot is not raised and no one is teaching, so where do the diaper?

How to make friends with a diaper?

Friendship with the diaper, for all its unique utility requires the observance of some simple and quite obvious rules.

Thus, the rules of friendship:

* Main rule - diapers friend only when it is high quality, savings as a diaper very often leads to the fact that savings were being spent on drugs;
* Diaper should be stored in a dry place, to be the appropriate size, with the unexpired term of validity and undamaged packaging;
* Condition of skin under the diaper should occasionally to control: to undo, to look, feel, smell. This rule is particularly true in situations where you put the diaper on the child, which earlier cases have not yet had (bought something new);
* Diaper should be changed after each walking in great need, it is important at this zakakanny diaper shoot fast, but do not rush to put on a new - give the skin to breathe, to bring the beauty of using moist sanitary napkins;
* Rationally make the change a diaper in a situation where within a more or less long period of time not be able to control (going for a walk, ride in public transportation, going to the clinic), or forces to control (sleep at night, for example);
* Even if the "great need" did not happen, the likelihood that the forces of the viagra advantages diaper at the end after a night's sleep or after the festivities - is very high, hence the feasibility of change;
* If in the process of monitoring the skin was wet, change diapers promptly.

Need a diaper assistants?

In other words, whether the funds are needed for skin care in addition to the diapers?

Needed, we have already said, but because of the importance of the question again: prophylactic treatment of the skin in places where contact with the feces and urine will need (groin, perineum, buttocks) that uniquely makes sense.

Tactics selection of skin care since ancient times based on the principle of "wet to dry, moisturize dry. Again, from time immemorial, the main problem that inevitably accompany the use of reusable nappies, was so called. diaper dermatitis - inflammation associated with exposure to the skin, urine and feces mix with urine. Moisture (urine) - the root cause, and inflamed weeping skin - the outer manifestation of diaper dermatitis. Not surprisingly, the prevention and treatment of this disease are based on the use of Dries up oily vehicles: powders, powders, special creams on the basis of talc, zinc, and starch.

Disposable diapers, especially qualitative, ie, made of microporous materials containing active adsorbent, fundamentally influenced the choice of funds for preventive maintenance: moisture is no longer a problem, skin hydration - that's what important!

So, you ask, if we use disposable diapers, so we do not need padding?

The answer to this question depends on two factors: firstly, on what diaper you choose (material, quality and quantity of the adsorbent, determining the speed with which he carries the liquid into a gel), and, secondly, how you arrange child care: in a hot room, and warm clothes humidity inside the diaper dityu guaranteed.

Nevertheless, let us return to the situation of ordinary (standard and civilized) - Parents are able to provide normal conditions for the existence of a child and buy high-quality modern diaper. Consequently, the agenda comes out, as we have already noticed the need for moisturizing the skin.

Not surprisingly, the industry around the world reacted to the increased quality diapers release special moisturizers, so called. creams for diaper.

We wanted the best ...

So, we very much want to make it quite well. We follow closely the skin condition. Moist - use a powder. Dry - creams for diaper. We do not mind!

But every now and things are moving somehow unclear - strange and not predictable. But yesterday it was wet. Got powder, poured from the heart, right before our eyes all dried up. After 3 hours, came back from a walk. Sort of like a diaper and not very heavy (ie, not crowded), but inside is wet, and red pop ... What should I do? Incomprehensible!

In fact there is nothing surprising here, but the answer is simple, although it is paradoxical:

Assistant diaper every now and prevent diaper!

Explains: and powders, and creams and ointments are the best-conditioners, lotions can block the pores of the inner layer of a diaper - the very pores through which the liquid comes into contact with the adsorbent. The corollary is obvious - speed of absorption of urine is slowed down, while skin contact with urine increases. Pop Blush ... - Hello, it's me, diaper dermatitis!

What to do? Importantly - to observe the principle of reasonable sufficiency. Do not be too much!

Good - little by little!

As for the chase and catch two hares at once both?

Amicably solve the problem.

So, we have quality modern diaper: excellent (capacious and fast) adsorbent microporous breathable material. Inside dry. How to protect your skin (to soften, protect it from irritation), but the diaper is not prevented?

At first glance, the solution is obvious: we should take a qualitative means of prevention (in the form of creams, ointments, salves) and gently put it on the skin under the nappy, keeping us already formulated the principle of reasonable sufficiency.

Check solution in practice. To begin, select "prophylactic."

Choose difficult (eyes run), but we'll take something simpler - time-tested, safe, inexpensive, effective. For example, the balm of aloe.

You probably would not be surprised, but the main ingredient of aloe balm - is an extract of aloe.

Aloe:

* Included in almost all cosmetics;
* Perfectly known to mankind for thousands of years;
* Is an emollient (moisturizer), healing, anti-inflammatory agent.

Mix aloe with stearyl alcohol (another old proven emollient), and Vaseline, dissolve it all in mineral oil - it will be the balm of aloe.

Printed with the balm on the skin, put on a diaper, butt rubs on a diaper, a wonderful balm with a thin layer will cover the inner surface of the diaper. What will happen next, we already know. Conclusion: Even with a great diaper, coupled with a wonderful balm to solve the problem we are unable to.

The word "we" are not allocated randomly. Because there are people who decided to challenge. Have decided to simply beautiful and original. Do you also like it when you find a solution.

Thus, unknown to us, but very clever uncle and aunt of the company Procter & Gamble (the same one that, in fact, invented disposable diapers), took the name Pampers diapers (Pampers). Then came the balm of aloe, but they (the wise aunts and uncles) do not have this balm smeared priests. They did, how we're not smart enough - caused no balm on the skin and the inner surface of the diaper!

Of course, not the entire surface (inside the diaper, there were 6 parallel strips with balm). Industrial implementation of such a wonderful idea led to what the market received new Pampers Active Baby - diapers with the balm of aloe.

Free balm inner surface was more than enough to adsorb the liquid. Popa, rubbing balm on the strip, coated with a thin uniform layer of an effective preventive measure. No creams under the diaper is not necessary.

It turned out that chasing two hares may well be effective.

It turned out that diapers with aloe balm not only do have preventive efficacy, but really to improve the skin condition.

It turned out one more step to ensure that child care has become easier and more enjoyable.

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