What should I do if my child’s skin is itchy? This will be more effective!

If the baby's skin is itchy, they will scratch it unconsciously, which will seriously damage the baby's skin. In order to solve this situation, parents should find the root cause of the child's skin itching and then find a reasonable treatment method.

1. Use wild chrysanthemum to relieve itching: If your baby’s scalp is severely itchy, you can try using wild chrysanthemum water to wash your baby’s hair to relieve the symptoms. If you can’t find fresh wild chrysanthemums for the time being, the wild chrysanthemums you usually use to make tea will also do.

2. Keep nails short to prevent scratching of the scalp: Keep a close eye on your baby and keep his nails short to prevent him from scratching his scalp and causing infection.

3. The best water temperature for washing hair is 37℃ ~ 38℃: Babies with itchy scalp should not use hot water to wash their hair, otherwise it will aggravate the itching.

4. How to wash your baby’s hair correctly: Be careful not to scratch your baby’s scalp with your fingers. Spread your entire palm on your baby’s scalp, massage gently, and use a little baby-specific hair conditioner.

5. Choose a shampoo specifically for babies: The overly strong alkaline in adult products will destroy the baby's scalp sebum, causing dry and itchy scalp, shortening the life of the hair, and making the hair dry and yellow.

6. Cleaning dandruff: If there is difficult-to-clean scale on the baby's scalp, you can use boiled and cooled vegetable oil (preferably olive oil, followed by peanut oil or rapeseed oil), apply a thin layer, and then wash with warm water. The dandruff will become softened and easy to remove.

7. Avoid shaving your baby's head: Although shaving your baby's hair short or shaving his head bald can help your baby sweat to a certain extent, the salt in the sweat will directly irritate the skin and make your baby feel itchy scalp. Moreover, because babies have less hair, they will unconsciously scratch with their hands when they sweat. Once scratches are left, it is easy to cause bacterial infection.

8. Give your baby appropriate calcium supplements: baby’s scalp itching may also be caused by calcium deficiency. You can prepare some high-calcium foods for your baby (such as dried shrimps, egg yolk paste, animal offal, etc.) and take your baby out to bask in the sun more often. Mothers should ensure that their babies absorb 600 mg of calcium every day. If the symptoms still cannot be relieved, or the baby scratches and bleeds, it is recommended to take the baby to the hospital for professional examination.