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Recently, the weather has been hot and cold, or it is cold in the morning and evening, and it has become a headache to dress the baby.
So, how to dress the child, and how to judge the child's warmth and coldness, whether to add or subtract clothes? The scientific method is seen here.
The wrong way to dress: wrap your child in one dress after another; As soon as I felt that the child's hands and feet were cold, I was busy adding clothes.
Correct dressing method: scientific layering, that is, adding clothes to children in time according to different ages and different times of the day.
We can divide the child into three nodes according to the age of the child:
Newborns' thermoregulatory centers are not yet fully developed, so it is recommended to wear an extra piece of clothing or cover an extra blanket than adults; When you go out, wear a small cotton hat with an extra layer of blanket;
Babies under the age of 3 can wear as much as their parents, and it is best to refer to the thickness of the clothes of adults who are afraid of heat at home, because babies at this age are more active, but the body's heat dissipation system is not very well developed, and it is easy to sweat.
Children over the age of 3 can already express their feelings of warmth and cold, and parents should listen to them or let them choose their own clothing.
When going out, it is also recommended to "focus on the part and light on the whole body". That is, to "equip" the limbs more and less to turn the torso into a "mille-feuille cake". For example, if your hands are prone to cold, wear thick gloves that are windproof.
If you're still worried, you might as well prepare a vest for your child that is easy to put on and take off, take it off when you play sports, and put it on again when you rest.
Why is it bad to wear too many clothes? On the surface, it seems that wearing more clothes can avoid colds, but in fact, wearing more clothes and sweating is more likely to get sick, and it may also lead to heat cover syndrome and some ** diseases.
Although the disease is not a big problem, usually** is not cleaned in time after sweating (it is easy to catch a cold when taking a bath in winter), resulting in prickly heat, folliculitis, etc., but it is very tormenting, especially if it is more itchy, the child will scratch, and this scratch is easy to be infected and inflamed.
As mentioned earlier, when the body heat cannot be dissipated and the space wrapped in clothes becomes hotter and hotter, it is easy to lead to high fever and even shock.
The answer is: not exactly.
Because the temperature of the child's torso is closer to the real body temperature, the temperature of the hands and feet is usually lower than the temperature of the body because of the heat dissipation.
This is why when taking body temperature, the thermometer should be placed under the armpit, so that the measured temperature is more in line with the actual temperature of the body, rather than measuring the temperature of the palm.
In addition, a child's heart is smaller than that of an adult, the heart strength is weaker, and the capillary network at the ends of the limbs is not perfect, so the blood reaches the ends of the limbs itself less, so "cold hands and feet" is normal, not necessarily cold.
And children have their special "heating artifact": brown fat, which can consume energy and directly heat up. Especially for infants and young children, they have a higher content of "brown fat" in their bodies and are more "not afraid of cold".
So how does brown fat produce heat?
When the body's thermoreceptors sense the cold, they react by delivering more fatty acids to the brown fat for digestion. This is precisely the unique ability of brown fat: the energy produced by the oxidation of fatty acids is directly supplied to the body in the form of heat, which keeps the body warm.
In general, there is only white fat and beige fat among white fats. If white fat and beige fat are compared to small blankets covering the body, brown fat is a proper electric blanket; It can be seen how strong its thermal insulation ability is.
Full-term babies are born with brown fat that accounts for about 2 6% of their body weight, which is the period with the highest brown fat content in their lives. In other words, compared to adults, children have plenty of white fat to keep warm, and enough brown fat to heat up, and can cope well with the cold.
A simple way to tell if your child's body temperature changes is to touch the back of the neck or back.
Although it is normal for the hands and feet to be cooler than the torso, for many parents, there is always more worry than care, so you can use these methods to warm up your child's hands and feet.
One is a variety of physical ways to keep warm, such as gloves, your hot belly, and so on;
The second is proper exercise: sitting for a long time may lead to hypothermia in the body, and feel that "your feet are frozen like a stone that has been frozen for a long time", at this time you can stand up and exercise and take a walk.
As for foot soaking, it is not recommended to do so for a long time.
One is that the 0-3-year-old baby has no arch, and after the age of 3, the fat layer of the child's foot gradually fades, and the foot cartilage begins to form the arch. 4-6 years old is a critical period for the development of children's foot arches, but at this time, the foot arches are not fully developed and are in the immature stage.
At this stage, if the child soaks his feet with overheated water for a long time, it will be easy to make the plantar ligaments soften when heated, and gradually relax, which is very unfavorable to the normal development of the arch of the foot.
In fact, the perception of temperature between adults and children is very different, and the water temperature that adults feel appropriate may be very hot in children, and it is easy to burn children.
Of course, it is okay to warm up with hot water properly and soak it occasionally, but you must pay attention to the temperature and time.