Baby Care: Dealing with Dirt and your child!
Posted On September 20, 2010 at 6:13 pm in Baby Care Tips, baby clothes
Outside the summer in full swing, and hence the heat, sand, sweat and a lot of dust. I’m, like many mommy little children, “horrified” of only one species, in which the child is home from a walk.
Children do not stop, they run and jump, so sweat and dust and dirt instantly stick to the body, particularly evident dirty spots on the bends and folds of the skin: the back of the elbows, knees, under the neck. I do not know how you are doing, but we immediately after such festivities in the hot days, we head straight for the shower and washed it about 10 minutes, wash off the sweat and dirt.
But if suddenly the playground walking some dirty child, for example, visible dirt around his mouth, his hands dirty and feet, that such a child mummy from its clean, bright children of hand, yes, and even whispering among themselves, saying that in order for a child no one looks after .
Perhaps, behind that child care is not really the way we are accustomed, modern mommy 21 century, but those kids in most cases differ excellent health and suffer from colds in the order of magnitude smaller than our darling little fellow, with whom we have a speck of dust blows away.
Dirty hands and dirty children, children role of bacteria
So where is the truth? It may indeed be worth less to wash, rub their kids and do not run dry your hands kid who accidentally fell and muddy? After all, there is trend in medicine – mud therapy, are treated with mud – just mud, and not any other substance. There is a theory about the benefits of the mud, according to which the bacteria, which are in the mud, helping to stimulate immunity.
The mud getting into the baby’s mouth with dirty hands and dirty objects as said immunity: “Here there are some bacteria get used to it, mobilizes …” Thus, we can summarize: the mud within reasonable limits strengthens immunity, and also does not evolve allergies – a very common disease in recent years.
For example, westerners simply obsessed with cleanliness of the body. Men and women attending a shower several times a day, not only in the morning and evening. Each time, using large quantities of household chemicals (soap, shampoo, gels), we washed off beneficial bacteria from the surface of the body. Not surprisingly, about 40% of Americans suffer from allergies, we have the same percentage of Allergy yet hovers around 15%, but he constantly growing.
Like this prophecy. This does not mean that children do not need to wash and to comply with intimate hygiene, just around the need to adhere to the golden mean, and do not overdo it.