What are the hazards of applying alum to newborns?

Modern young people have more advanced ideas, especially when it comes to educating babies. Young people generally pay attention to scientific parenting, but many older people are still relatively conservative and still have traditional ideas. They want to apply alum to the baby after birth. These practices have no scientific basis. The baby's skin is relatively delicate, and alum is quite irritating and can easily burn the baby's skin.

Alum can play an antibacterial role and is effective in treating athlete's foot.

White alum has antibacterial and antimicrobial effects, and has obvious inhibitory effects on Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi, Bacillus paratyphi, Proteus, as well as Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans. Alum solution also has a certain anti-effect on Trichomonas vaginalis. Therefore, many people with athlete's foot also use alum to soak their feet to treat athlete's foot and relieve the symptoms of foot odor and itchy feet.

How to use alum foot bath

Add 5-10 grams of alum in a basin of foot soaking water, stir it to dissolve the alum in the water, soak your feet for about 15 minutes when the water temperature is appropriate. Do not use it for a long time. You can soak your feet once a night. Continuous use for a week will show obvious relief of foot sweat.

Alum foot bath should not be used in large quantities

The chemical composition of alum is potassium aluminum sulfate, which contains aluminum ions, so excessive intake will affect the body's absorption of iron, calcium and other components, leading to osteoporosis, anemia, and even affecting the development of nerve cells. Aluminum ions can easily accumulate in the body, for example in the brain, kidneys, liver, spleen and other organs. If deposited in the brain, it can easily cause symptoms such as Alzheimer's disease, memory loss, and decreased intelligence.

If you just use alum to soak your feet, although the harm is not as great as direct oral administration, alum can also enter the body through the skin and pores of the feet when soaking your feet, which will also cause side effects.

1: The water temperature is too high

The main component of alum is hydrated potassium aluminum sulfate. If you use it to soak your feet, you must pay attention to the temperature of the alum water. It should not be too hot, just enough so that your feet do not feel cold. The water temperature should be around 40 degrees Celsius and not too high.

2: Concentration is too high

White alum has certain bactericidal, antibacterial and disinfecting effects. If the human body has symptoms of sweaty feet, it may not be easy to adapt to soaking feet with white alum at the beginning, but it will not bring certain harm to the human body. But everyone should pay attention that white alum should not be put too much. Before going to bed, add 5 grams of white alum to a basin of foot bathing water, stir evenly to dissolve the white alum, and then you can soak your feet directly. High concentration of alum solution is very irritating to the skin and may also cause tissue ulcers.

You should also pay attention to the soaking time when soaking your feet with alum. It should be no more than 10-15 minutes. Unlike the usual 30 minutes of soaking, the soaking time of alum should not be too long. Shortening the time by 10-15 minutes can also effectively affect the skin of the feet, playing a role of astringency, shrinking the pores of the foot skin, and preventing excessive sweating, which can effectively avoid problems such as athlete's foot, foot odor, and foot itching caused by sweat.

4: Children are prohibited from using

Children's skin is very delicate, and alum is a chemical product. Its use by children may aggravate skin irritation, especially for children in the growth and development stage, who may suffer greater harm from the use of alum.