Can babies use air conditioning after childbirth?

The confinement period is a critical period for body reorganization. During this stage, mothers should not only pay special attention to themselves, but also pay attention to the physical health of their babies. Whether babies can use air conditioning during the confinement period depends on the temperature regulation indoors and outdoors. In fact, babies are more likely to experience double the condition than adults. Natural ventilation is allowed, and try not to let children stay in air-conditioned rooms for a long time.

Is it OK for babies to use air conditioning?

It is necessary to use air conditioning to adjust the room temperature appropriately for your baby. Many parents have this feeling: under the same conditions, babies are more likely to "sweat profusely" than adults. This is due to the baby's imperfect body temperature regulation function. The body's sweating center is in the hypothalamus, which is likely located in or near the body temperature regulation center.

When the body is in exercise or in a hot environment, the skin's thermoreceptors receive thermal stimulation, and the peripheral blood temperature increases accordingly, which can cause the temperature of the brain tissue around the hypothalamus to increase, the so-called local heating, thereby stimulating the sweating center and causing thermal sweating. However, if the hypothalamus function is not fully developed, excessive sweating may occur.

Sweat is mainly composed of water, accounting for 99%, and solid components account for 1%. Among the solid components, most of it is sodium chloride, and it also contains small amounts of urea, potassium chloride, lactic acid, etc. If the baby is often in a very hot environment and does not replenish enough water in time, it may cause varying degrees of dehydration and cause relatively serious damage to kidney function. When the weather is too hot, babies are prone to symptoms such as loss of appetite, heat stroke, diarrhea, prickly heat and heat stroke. Therefore, it is beneficial to give children some air conditioning.

What are the hazards of long-term use of air conditioning for babies?

1. Babies who use air conditioning for a long time are prone to air conditioning disease

Air-conditioning disease is mainly a human health problem caused by the low temperature of the air conditioner and the pollution of the indoor environment. The most common symptoms are nasal congestion, nasal itching, colds, tearing, etc., and some are also accompanied by fever, diarrhea, cough and other symptoms. Severe cases may develop into pneumonia. If the baby stays in an air-conditioned room for a long time, and the baby's immunity is poor, air-conditioning disease will easily harm the baby's health.

2. Babies who use air conditioning for a long time are more likely to get pneumonia

Because babies have less subcutaneous fat, more capillaries, and their body temperature regulation center is not yet fully developed, babies can clearly feel the temperature difference that adults cannot feel. In the cold air environment of an air-conditioned room, the baby's capillaries contract, the sweat gland pores close, the sympathetic nerves become excited, the visceral blood vessels contract, the gastrointestinal motility weakens, the resistance weakens, and various bacteria and molds grow and multiply in the air conditioner and the air is polluted, so the baby is very likely to get pneumonia.

3. Relying on air conditioning to reduce body temperature regulation function

Don't let your baby rely too much on air conditioning, because this will indeed reduce the child's body temperature regulation function and worsen the ability to adapt to the environment. Therefore, the most important thing for parents is to grasp the "degree". Parents can let their baby sweat appropriately as needed, but don't use air conditioning on the baby just because the weather is hot. In addition, staying in a closed space for a long time, the bacteria on the air-conditioning radiator will also affect the baby's health. Moreover, being isolated from the outside environment for a long time and suffering from sudden changes in temperature make it more likely to cause a "heat cold".