How to prevent heat stroke in the newborn

Newborn and infant temperature regulation function and less heat dissipation, especially for those newborns, parents work to do a good job heating or summer cooling purposes.
Newborns "approach to the prevention of heat stroke"

Dr. Tao said that many parents of newborns and infants and young children there to prevent heat stroke errors. For example, some parents worry that their children catch a cold in summer but also to the children wrapped in cotton wrapped. In fact, the newborn should be wrapped in the comfort-oriented and not too thick, to the child's hands and feet are not cold not hot as the standard. There are the parents of a child in order to avoid prickly heat, like the shaved head to the children. In fact, it may lead to the child's scalp completely exposed in the sun, easy to damage hair follicles. Therefore, the summer will be the child's hair cut, no need to shave.
"Children are a number of ways to prevent heat stroke." Dr. Tao said, one can take a bath or a cooling swim. Now, many places are professional baby pool to allow children to travel more than several times, is safe and can lower the temperature. The second is to moderate the use of air-conditioning or fan. Children to sleep in the bedroom air-conditioned before the open, such as when children go to bed, turn off the can. However, parents must not be air conditioning or fans of the wind direction at children, the best kept at room temperature about 26 ℃, in order to prevent drying, parents can also put a bowl of cold water in the house.
If it is found that the children appeared dripping sweat, temperature rise, pale red, hot and dry skin symptoms, parents should get the child to a cool well ventilated place, remove clothing, wet towels used to clean the child's body, or a cold water irrigation pillow bag children. Such as the child's body temperature down, it is necessary to remove these measures, so as to avoid overkill.