Herbs for bathing newborns: how to choose?

It's no secret that nature is the best doctor. This is especially true for infants - because medicinal herbs are environmentally friendly, they contain only natural ingredients, without chemicals and fragrances. From time immemorial, our grandmothers used the gifts of nature in order to care for babies.

At the moment, it is not at all necessary to buy expensive advertised products for bathing the baby. You can use herbs, because they have a lot of positive effects - antiseptic, wound healing, soothing, while they are not allergens. The most important thing is to choose the right herbs for swimming. We will consider this question in this article.

When can I start?

It is immediately necessary to make a reservation that newborns very sensitively react absolutely to everything that surrounds them - even the most insignificant things can provoke an allergy. The parent's task is to eliminate itching and rashes. This is where healing herbs will help.

Immediately after giving birth, you need to bathe in boiled water with a very weak solution of potassium permanganate - until the umbilical cord heals. The doctor will surely tell you how to bathe the baby in the first days of his life - it is necessary to listen carefully to the advice of a specialist and follow them.

Once your baby is 2 weeks old, healing herbs can be added to the bathing water. If you wish, you can combine them, or use only one plant, the most important thing is to know exactly what result you want to achieve.

Important: Herbs are a great helper in the fight against prickly heat and diaper rash, which often appear in young children. Therefore, if you want to protect the baby’s delicate skin, this option will be ideal.

How to choose among variety?

As mentioned above, each healing herb has its own properties. Let's consider them in more detail:

1. If you want to achieve a calming effect so that your child sleeps well, then it is important to try to bathe him in herbs such as lavender, mint or oregano.
2. With dermatitis, it is worth trying to add St. John's wort broth to the baths.
3. An irritated epidermis will save a camomile or calendula.
4. Does the child suffer from colic? Add motherwort or bearberry, a few days later you will notice that the problem is gone.
5. If the child has skin problems - prickly heat, irritation, you can also try oak bark.
6. With severe allergic reactions, laurel is used.
7. If the child has muscle hypertonicity, in this case it is necessary to try hops, valerian, chamomile.
8. With hypotension, experts recommend the use of walnut leaves, oregano, a string, currant leaves.

How to brew?

In general, the cooking recipe is indicated on each package - so you will know exactly how much grass you need to put on a certain amount of water. We will talk about the most common option for the preparation of medicinal herbs.

The proportions are as follows:

• 0.5 boiling water;
• 3 tbsp herbs.

The resulting mixture is usually heated in a water bath - about 15 minutes, after which you need to let the solution brew, strain. Done! The resulting infusion can be added both when bathing the baby, and rinse the crumbs with the addition of a healing solution.

If you put in the refrigerator, then the tincture will be usable for about another week.

Interesting: If you do not have time to deal with decoctions, at the moment the pharmaceutical industry offers herbal extracts to the attention of the consumer.Only 1 cap is enough - and the baby bath is ready, no hassle.

Indications for the use of herbs

Parents need to decide whether the child really needs to arrange daily baths with the addition of herbs. Often it becomes that they do it out of a personal whim, or adults follow new-fangled trends - although the baby does not, in principle, need this at all.

If the child is absolutely healthy, nothing bothers him - in this case, you don’t need to swim in the herbs, just fill the bathtub with clean boiled water.

But indications for the use of herbs can be:

• skin diseases - urticaria, dermatitis, prickly heat;
• diseases of the nervous system - the baby often cries, is naughty, he has a bad dream;
• problems with the gastrointestinal tract - colic, frequent and profuse regurgitation;
• hypertonicity or muscle hypotension;
• frequent diseases due to weak immunity.

In such cases, it is worth picking herbs in order to facilitate the general condition of the baby.

Contraindications

In some cases, herbs do not need to be used at all, under any circumstances.

Consider the contraindications:

• individual intolerance;
• the period when the child is vaccinated;
• high body temperature;
• with wounds on the skin.

The healing qualities of herbs

In order to make it easier for parents to decide on the choice of a medicinal herb, a decoction of which they will add to the bath for bathing a child, consider the medicinal properties of each of them.

1. Chamomile. One of the most popular medicinal plants. A decoction of chamomile flowers has a disinfecting effect, it soothes and is an excellent antiseptic. Chamomile has the ability to eliminate irritation on the skin - for small children this is especially important. It is important for girls to bathe in a solution of chamomile, since it acts as a prophylactic against gynecological diseases.
2. A series of. Also a very popular plant, which is used if the child has skin diseases. Quickly eliminates rashes, helps eliminate inflammatory processes on the epidermis. It is noteworthy that experts recommend using a series of seborrhea. If there were skin diseases, but the parents managed to cure the baby from them, in this case, pediatricians recommend using baths with infusion of succession as a prophylactic - once a week. It is a hypoallergenic substance, soothes the baby's delicate skin. It can be used for sweating, diaper rash, even with diathesis, a series of significantly improves the condition of the skin.
3. Calendula. Marigold marigolds can be used both for dermatological problems and for colic. Contains essential oils, saponins, tannins - all of them have beneficial effects on the skin.
4. Nettle. It improves the condition of the body as a whole, while it has a healing, softening, antiseptic effect. You can use the bath with the addition of nettle infusion if the baby has various rashes.
5. Lavender. It has a unique and familiar to all aroma, while it has a lot of positive qualities. It is used as a sedative - if your baby is naughty, does not sleep well, then you should make a choice in favor of this herb. Pediatricians recommend baths and if the baby is often sick - as a complex therapy. The decoction of this plant can also be used if the child has very flaky skin. If your child is often naughty, he is irritable - try adding lavender broth to the baths, and after a week you will notice that the baby has become much calmer.
6. Melissa. It is recommended to use with excessive nervousness, bad and restless sleep. The smell of lemon balm is similar to the smell of mint - both types of this herb are useful to use as sedatives.
7. Valerian. If your baby is too active, it is difficult to put him to bed, while he often cries and is capricious - it is worth trying to add a broth of valerian to the bathtubs. Surely this herb is known to everyone as a sedative. So, it helps not only adults, but also children, while it is absolutely harmless.
8. Thyme. A plant that is often used for baths. Has the ability to establish sleep, also prescribed if the child has rickets. Recommended for overly nervous children.

Summing up, I would like to note that not all medicinal plants can be used. For example, children are not recommended to make a decoction for baths from broom, celandine, calamus, wormwood. Before proceeding to the procedures, it is necessary to consult a pediatrician and find out about the appropriateness of the procedures.

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