How to care for neonatal dyshidrosis

Dyshidrosis is a very common skin disease that affects both the elderly and children, especially in summer, which is the peak season for dyshidrosis. Many newborns will experience this condition. The weather is hot in the summer, and the human body sweats particularly well. Many parents, worried about the health of their newborns, often wrap their babies very tightly, which leads to a high incidence of neonatal dyshidrotic eczema. So how to prevent and treat this situation?

1. Keep the skin clean and dry. When bathing your baby, use warm water and non-alkaline bath agent to clean the baby's body. For babies with intertrigo, special attention should be paid to cleaning the folds of the skin. When taking a bath, the shower gel must be rinsed off. After washing, wipe the moisture off the baby's body and apply a non-oily moisturizer to avoid hindering the normal breathing of the skin. The baby's hair should also be washed every day. If the baby has seborrheic dermatitis, washing the head carefully can remove the scabs. If the scab has hardened and stuck to the head, apply olive oil on the affected area and then wash it after a while.

2. Avoid external stimulation. Parents should always pay attention to changes in temperature and humidity around the baby. Babies with contact dermatitis should especially avoid exposing their skin to cold wind or strong sunlight. In summer, after your baby sweats during exercise, you should wipe off his sweat carefully; when the weather is cold and dry, you should apply anti-allergic non-oily moisturizer to your baby. In addition to paying attention to weather changes, parents should not let their babies wear clothes that are easy to irritate the skin, such as wool, silk, nylon, etc.

3. Trim the nails short. If your baby suffers from severely itchy atopic dermatitis or contact dermatitis, parents should trim their baby's nails regularly to reduce the chance of scratching.

The above are methods for preventing and treating neonatal dyshidrotic eczema. Children’s physique and skin are relatively fragile, so they should be treated more carefully in daily care. Because newborns need to lie in bed frequently, parents should turn their babies over frequently, bathe them with warm water twice a day, keep their clothes clean, and keep the room ventilated more often to better prevent the occurrence of dyshidrotic eczema.