Hot summer weather requires changes in the care of young children.
Due to the high temperatures, the child may feel constant discomfort that can make it restless, and disrupt sleep. The heat can even cause sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), if the child is very stuffy.
Check to see you made the moisture on the head or neck of an infant are signs of sweating. Red face, shortness of breath and a rash on the face also means that now is the overheating of the body.
Pediatricians the UK has issued 14 tips that will allow you to save the baby from complications in hot weather.
1. The child should be dressed in accordance with room temperature. For example, if in the works of more than 25 degrees, it will be enough diaper and thin cotton shirts. If the room temperature is in the range of 20-23 degrees, put on the Romper or pajama shorts and a t-shirt and maybe socks.
2. You should always ventilate the building, providing air circulation. The curtains should be close to half that sunlight got into the room, but the air kept coming.
3. If you are in a country house or dacha, it is necessary to open the hatch to the attic – then the warm air will go through the roof.
4. Use only cotton sheets. Mattresses with waterproof coating, keeping you warm.
5. Before bedtime the child should bathe, the water should be cooler than usual, but not cold. Swimming allows you to refresh the body before going to sleep.
6. In the room there should be a thermometer – because of this we can always tell whether the clothes of the baby room temperature.
7. Natural cooling is preferable to air conditioning – you can put in the room a few bottles of frozen water – the ice will melt and weaken the heat.
8. You can use a fan if put in front of him a large bowl of ice or bottles of frozen water. Otherwise, the fan can only overtake the warm air, not cooling it.
9. In a troubled state, the child’s body temperature increases, so you should keep the baby feel safe and felt the presence of loved ones.
10. In the summer it is recommended to choose the most cool part of the house and place the baby there, if possible.
11. The shower should be water – it is suitable for cold compress, if necessary. Chilled water will do to the child at night if he wants to drink. Babies enough breast milk.
12. It is important to consider the temperature drop at night – do not put baby to bed with a diaper on, if the night is expected to drop temperatures below 25 degrees.
13. Regularly check the body temperature of the child.
14. You can rely on their own feelings and check, how would you dressed, if I had not been able to cover with a blanket.
