Parenting misunderstandings: How many of these things have you done to trick your children?

You must have heard these words: \”Baby\’s hair will become thicker as it is shaved, pinching a newborn\’s nose will straighten it, rubbing alcohol on the body to cool the baby down.\” Have you ever done any of these things that trick your baby? Will the hair of babies with similar appearance become thicker as they are shaved? There are 100,000-150,000 hairs on the human scalp, and the number of hair follicles and the number, thickness, and color of hair are determined by genes early in the embryonic period. Whether you shave or cut, it will not affect the hair follicles. Some mothers feel that their children\’s hair becomes thicker and thicker every time after shaving, but this is actually just a visual error. The diameter of the hair root is larger than the hair end, so after shaving the hair, the new hair roots will feel harder and thicker. For babies under 1 week old, it is not recommended to shave their hair, just cut it short. Because shaving the head will bring the following harms to the child: ① The baby\’s scalp is very delicate, and improper operation can easily scratch the scalp, which may cause infection and inflammation; ② Hair has the function of maintaining body temperature, and babies without hair lack this layer of protection. It is easy to catch cold; ③Shaving will stimulate the baby\’s developing hair follicles, which is not conducive to hair growth; ④In fact, babies instinctively resist shaving. Forcibly shaving their heads will not only make the baby \”unhappy\”, but may also cause problems for older children. Inferiority and autistic psychology. Can pinching your nose make your nose straighter? From a scientific point of view, a child\’s appearance is mainly determined by genetic genes. At present, there is no definite scientific basis to prove that frequently pinching and lifting the bridge of the baby\’s nose can make the nose straighter. On the contrary, the baby\’s nasal mucosa is delicate, and pinching and lifting the nose too hard will damage the baby\’s nasal mucosa. Applying milk to your face will make your baby\’s skin whiter and more tender? Breast milk is rich in protein, fat and sugar, and these nutrients provide conditions for the growth and reproduction of bacteria. Moreover, the skin of newborns is delicate and highly permeable, which creates favorable conditions for bacteria to enter the body through the pores, which can easily cause folliculitis and even suppuration and infection of the skin around the hair follicles. If your baby really needs to apply something, it is recommended to choose a baby-specific moisturizer. Dietary breast milk is not nutritious and supplementary food should be added too early? Breast milk can meet all the needs of the baby within six months without any supplementary food. Adding complementary foods in advance will not only not help, but will also cause excessive kidney load on the child and damage the child\’s absorption of breast milk, which is counterproductive. The food for 1-3 months should be mainly breast milk and milk powder. At 4-6 months, the diet is still mainly breast milk (or formula milk), but you can start to add some complementary foods in an appropriate amount, such as single-flavored fruit and vegetable puree, first-stage infant rice cereal, rice cereal, milk paste, etc. to supplement calories. , protein, calcium, iron, fiber and vitamins A, B, C and other nutrients. It mainly provides liquid and puree food. 7-9 months is a critical period for the baby to learn to chew and swallow. Let the baby learn to eat high-quality vegetable porridge or rotten noodles, such as mixed flavors of various fruit and vegetable purees, meat purees, and various flavors of baby rice noodles. , tofu puree, lotus root starch, etc. to increase calories, animal protein, iron, zinc, vitamins A, B and other nutrients, and allow babies to develop eating habits that adapt to a variety of tastes. 10-12 months, this stageDuan can gradually establish a eating pattern of three meals a day, such as mixed flavors of various fruit and vegetable purees, baby rice noodles with various ingredients, meat puree, liver puree, thick porridge, rotten noodles, etc., to supplement heat energy and minerals. Substances, proteins, vitamins, fiber and other nutrients, and properly train the baby\’s chewing ability. Is it healthier to use purified water or mineral water to prepare milk powder? In fact, you can use tap water to boil and cool it to the appropriate temperature to make milk. Purified water has removed various macroelements and most of the trace elements. Long-term drinking will cause children to have insufficient intake of nutrients. Mineral water contains too many nutrients. Long-term drinking will cause children to have excessive intake of certain elements. Afraid of indigestion, do you keep giving your baby porridge? It is necessary to add appropriate complementary foods to the baby appropriately so as not to affect the development of the baby\’s digestive ability. Moreover, the lack of chewing and swallowing exercises in the mouth may affect the baby\’s oral development and facial muscle development. When adding complementary foods to your child, you can follow the principle of starting from a small amount to a large amount, from thin to thick, and from fine to coarse. You can gradually add rice noodles, porridge, fruits, vegetables, and meat to make the nutrition more balanced, and to gradually exercise the baby\’s chewing and digestion abilities. . Disease-related alcohol rubs the body to physically cool down the child? Alcohol bathing is not advisable. When a baby has a fever and a high temperature persists, the pores will open, making it easier to absorb the alcohol applied on the skin surface, and the baby\’s liver function is not fully developed. If the baby wipes for a long time and the area is large, it is easy to cause alcohol poisoning. If the alcohol concentration is too high, High levels will cause congestion and edema in the brain and meninges, causing mental excitement, irritability, nausea and vomiting, difficulty breathing and other alcohol poisoning symptoms. The correct way to deal with fever: When the temperature is above 39°C, antipyretics are generally the first choice. How to use ibuprofen: Recommended dosage: The recommended dosage of ibuprofen is 5-10 mg/kg/time, once every 6 hours, up to 4 times a day. The United States allows use by children ≥6 months old. How to use acetaminophen: WHO recommends the first choice antipyretic drug for infants and children over 3 months old when they have high fever. Recommended dose: The dose of acetaminophen is 10-15 mg/kg/time (total <600 mg), 4-6 h intervals, up to 4 times a day. Can drinking glucose water remove jaundice in babies? For infants with jaundice, it is necessary to increase the amount of feeding to increase the amount of defecation, thereby achieving the effect of reducing jaundice. Glucose only increases the glucose content in the blood to maintain the energy supply in the body within a certain range. It does not increase the amount of defecation, so it cannot reduce jaundice in newborns. It is still necessary to breastfeed more and bask in the sun more to allow the jaundice to metabolize on its own. In serious cases, timely medical treatment is required.