The so-called "medicated bath" is actually a way of health care in which various Chinese medicinal materials are added to water for soaking. Although baby medicated baths can use the characteristics of water to dissolve related drugs in water and have the effect of preventing and treating diseases, there are some details that babies must pay attention to during medicated baths due to various factors.
Benefits of Baby Medicated Baths
1. Reduce neonatal jaundice
Traditional Chinese medicine refers to neonatal jaundice as "fetal jaundice" or "fetal jaundice", and believes that it is mostly caused by damp-heat evil or weakness of the child's temper, which leads to prolonged jaundice. It can also be caused by the child's congenital deficiency, which leads to abnormal bile circulation and overflow.
Therefore, through the administration on the surface of the body, after absorption through the skin, mucous membranes, and sweat glands, and through the regulation of the meridian and blood vessels or the transmission of neural system information by different medicinal aromas, it can correct the disorder of visceral function and treat diseases.
2. Improve infant immunity
After a baby medicated bath, the content of certain immunoglobulins in the blood can be increased, enhancing the body's vitality and resistance to diseases.
Through physical and pharmacological effects, the therapeutic effect can be achieved in a relaxing bath, especially for wind-cold colds and coughs.
3. Improve skin problems
If a baby is given a medicated bath within three days after birth, medication that clears heat and detoxifies can be used. This can not only clean the dirt on the baby's skin, but also enhance blood circulation and promote metabolism to prevent skin diseases and various other diseases in the future. It can also moisturize the skin and make it delicate when the child grows up.
Types of Baby Medicated Baths
1. Fangfeng (Saposhnikoviae Radix)
When a baby has symptoms such as cold headache or itching from rubella, using a Fangfeng medicated bath can effectively help the baby relieve these symptoms. Babies who regularly use Fangfeng medicated baths also have good preventive and relief effects on skin diseases.
2. Jinyinhua (Lonicerae Flos)
Jinyinhua has the effects of relieving itching, clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling blood, and reducing swelling. It is especially effective for eczema, diaper rash, heat rash, milk scurf, mosquito bites, and prickly heat. It is mild and astringent, can relieve discomfort of the baby's skin, and enhance the health of the baby's skin. It can effectively purify and protect the skin, clear heat and detoxify, relieve itching, and alleviate discomfort of the baby's skin.
3. Aicao (Artemisiae Argyi Folium)
Traditional Chinese medicine records show that Aicao can dispel dampness and cold, promote meridian circulation, regulate qi and blood, and has many other effects such as antibacterial, antiviral, immune enhancement, and improvement of sensitive skin.
Regular use of Aicao medicated baths can effectively enhance physical fitness and improve immunity.
4. Gouteng (Uncariae Ramulus et Uncus)
Using Gouteng medicated baths can effectively help the baby eliminate toxins from the mother's body, clear heat, calm the liver, calm wind, promote sleep, improve sleep quality, promote growth and development, and enhance immunity.
Situations When Babies Should Not Take Baths
1. After vaccinations
After a baby receives vaccinations, there will be needle marks on the skin. Bathing the baby at this time can easily lead to infection of the needle marks.
2. Immediately after eating a full meal
If a baby is bathed immediately after eating a full meal, a large amount of blood will flow to the dilated epidermal blood vessels stimulated by hot water, reducing blood supply to the abdominal cavity, which is not conducive to digestion.
In addition, because the baby's stomach is in a dilated state after eating a full meal, bathing the baby immediately can easily cause the baby to vomit.
3. Before and after a severe cold or fever
When a baby has a severe cold, it is not suitable to bathe the baby before or after the fever. Although bathing the baby when they have a severe cold and fever seems to have a physical cooling effect, because the baby has poor resistance due to their young age, while cooling during bathing, cold air can also invade through the pores, which may worsen the condition.
4. When the skin is damaged
If a baby's skin is damaged, bathing the baby can easily cause the damaged skin to come into contact with water, resulting in unnecessary infections. The mother should wait for the baby's skin to heal before bathing the baby.
