First-aid kit for newborn

The arrival of a newborn in your home should be thoroughly prepared. A first-aid kit for a newborn is perhaps the most necessary thing, and it must be collected first. It is not recommended to buy a ready-made first-aid kit, because in her, according to the observations of young parents, there are many unnecessary components, and a part, on the contrary, will have to be bought.

What should be the first-aid kit for the newborn? You can tell the composition of a pediatrician or girlfriends who have recently given birth to children and know what is necessarily useful and what should be "just in case". Listen to the recommendations of the doctor who leads the pregnancy.

- A first-aid kit for newborns should include cotton wool and cotton swabs. Vatu you will use to wash the eye, nose. It is better to buy wadded disks or balls, since they will not leave villi on the baby's body. Cotton buds can be with a limiter (for the ears, nose) and ordinary - for the treatment of pimples, scratches, umbilical wound.

- In the medicine cabinet must be antiseptic. First of all, manganese. It is better to take the powder, because by purchasing a ready-made solution, you can store it for no more than 10 days, and the crystals are easy to dissolve by yourself at the right time. To process the navel use a 2-5 percent solution. After cooking it is filtered through 10 gauze layers. A very weak solution of potassium permanganate is prepared in a separate pot and poured into a bath for bathing.

Another antiseptic is Chlorophyllipt. This green solution when applied to the wound does not cause burning. It is made on the basis of eucalyptus leaves. This tool is used to treat the navel until the wound is finally healed. "Chlorophyllipt" is used to treat small inflammations.

It is difficult to see a first-aid kit for a newborn without hydrogen peroxide. The 3% solution disinfects and is widely used for the treatment of the same umbilical wound, scratches. In the navel, the peroxide is digested with a clean pipette. The cotton wool is removed with excess liquid and old cloth, and then a solution of potassium permanganate is applied.

One can not help recalling that the post-Soviet space is very often treated with zebra or fucorcin. However, some people find that the zelenka forms a film, and because of this, the umbilical wound heals longer. In some countries, it is not customary to treat the navel before healing, it is simply cleaned with alcohol solution. In any case, the belly of the newborn must be kept clean, as often as possible and longer it should be ventilated. Until the wound healing, do not cover the navel with the nappy. You can use special diapers with a cut or tuck the usual.

- Your baby should have his own thermometer to measure body temperature. It is best to use a convenient digital thermometer. It is safe and shows the exact result.

- It will come in handy syringing №1, gas pipe №1. You need to buy a nasal aspirator. Be sure to consider the softness of the rubber.

"Two pipettes."

- Baby cream and powder - for skin care. You can alternate these funds, applying each for two to three days. Remember that you can not simultaneously use the cream and powder.

- Means for lowering body temperature, not containing aspirin. Medicinal form - liquid or candles.

- Eye drops, drops in case of a cold - from stuffy nose. Although the grandmother's method - to drop a little baby into the nose with a little breast milk, if it is incorporated - is really effective.

- Remedy for the control of colic should be in the medicine cabinet, because this disease does not bypass most children. Buy herbs - chamomile and fennel, dill seeds. Of these, you can easily prepare tea, which will help with pain in the tummy.

- Preparations that are used for disorders of stool, dysbiosis - Lineks, Dufalak, Plantex.

- If you do not have it yet - you need to buy a bandage, medical alcohol, a band-aid.

- Syringe dispenser for accurate dosing of the medicine.

Other drugs you can buy later, if necessary and in the event that they are appointed by a doctor. The first-aid kit should contain only high-quality preparations and reliable items.