The parents of any newborn have many questions regarding the correct hygiene of the baby. But if with boys everything is more or less clear, then with girls everything is not so simple. A little daughter needs a special approach. Moms and dads should know this in order to raise a healthy and happy girl who will not have problems with childbirth and women's health in the future.
What are we talking about?
Under the hygiene of girls, it is customary to understand a set of measures that are designed to preserve the health of the child. Without fail, these are daily washing, washing, taking baths, treating wrinkles on the body with baby cream or petroleum jelly, special care for the child's genitals.
With inadequate care in girls, the labia fusion occurs, from a very early age, inflammatory processes in the genital organs develop.
That is why the queues at the children's gynecologist's office in the polyclinic are not decreasing, and with the widespread use of diapers and sanitary napkins, they only grow.
Mothers began to rely more on diapers, use wet wipes to treat their daughter's butt and genitals. Hence - the growth of female diseases in girls.
The baby is supposed to be brought to the pediatric gynecologist at the age of 1 month for the first time. This is a routine examination designed to exclude the possibility of congenital malformations of the baby. You should not wait for this visit, but you should go immediately in cases where a newborn girl has purulent discharge from the vagina with an unpleasant, pungent or sour odor, if her nipples are very swollen, reddened, redness and swelling in the causal areas and thick white discharge from the genital organs, if the daughter began to behave restlessly during each urination. All these symptoms may indicate the presence of a disease, and here hygiene alone cannot solve anything, treatment will be required.
Komarovsky about caring for girls
There is nothing difficult in observing hygienic requirements in the process of caring for a girl, says Komarovsky. Of course, if you immediately find out a few fundamental rules:
- You need to wash the girl from birth after each trip to the toilet. Do not wipe with wet wipes, as is sometimes acceptable with little boys, namely, wash. In this case, the direction of movement of the adult's hand is from the pubis to the priest. In no case is it the other way around, otherwise you can bring bacteria from the feces and intestines into the vagina, which will cause an inflammatory process.
- You cannot wash the baby in a basin. This boy, by and large, does not care in what container he will wash his ass. The girl only needs running water for this hygiene procedure. Otherwise, pathogenic bacteria from the rectum or from small particles of feces can get onto the genitals with water and cause an inflammatory process.
- Before washing the little princess, an adult must first wash his own hands with baby soap. The goal is still the same - to prevent the penetration of foreign flora into the genital tract.
- But you should not use soap when washing, as it dries the delicate skin of the girl's external genitals. It will be enough to use baby soap for intimate places once a day, while taking a bath.
And here is a comment by Dr. Komarovsky on the hygiene of girls.
Doctor Komarovsky's advice
About cold and warm
The main rule that Evgeny Olegovich urges parents to remember is no hypothermia of the genitals. If the baby likes to run barefoot around the house or even on the street, there is nothing wrong with that, since the human legs are so arranged by nature that when in contact with the cold, only the vessels of the legs themselves narrow, the body's heat is not lost. However, if the daughter got into the habit of sitting down with her booty on the ground or something cool, this can cause a lot of problems in the future, as it is fraught with serious inflammatory processes in the reproductive organs (uterus, appendages, ovaries).
Make sure that the little girl never sits on a stone surface, on damp ground, cold sand. Let this become the norm from an early age.
In the same way, overheating of the intimate area is harmful.
About clothes
Girl's underwear should be white. Komarovsky warns that beautiful bright panties are primarily textile dyes, which can cause irritation and inflammation. The best fabrics are cotton and linen. The girl needs to change her underwear daily, and in case of strong discharge (small - this is the norm!) Panties are changed several times a day as they become dirty.
About care products
For the hygiene of intimate places, a girl of any age, from birth to adolescent puberty, Komarovsky advises using baby liquid soap intended for newborns. It has no dyes, perfume additives and a high Ph.
About cosmetics
If redness appears on the external genitals, you should not smear them with baby cream or other creams, says Komarovsky. After thoroughly washing, it is best to lubricate the problem areas with sterile olive or peach oil. But the doctor does not advise parents of girls to get involved in powders.
