The birth went well and in time, the baby is in order, and all of a sudden a few days appear strange symptoms. Should I be concerned and how to react to the young mother?
A significant number of full-term newborns (about 3/4 of children) for 3-4 days after birth is going through hormonal crisis. In most cases, it will pass, and does not require treatment.
Do not be alarmed if you notice the baby strange symptoms: swollen testicles in boys, compacted nipples crumbs incomprehensible rash... Observe the condition of the baby.
What is the reason?
During pregnancy and childbirth in the body baby receives a large number of female hormones - estrogen. After the birth of their body begins to actively withdraw, and the result is a sharp jump indicators. Sometimes this process does not manifest externally, but many kids there are physical symptoms that are hard to miss.
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disease of the breast
Visually, the child swollen breasts (two centimeters), sometimes visible discharge, resembling colostrum.
This usually occurs at the end of the first week of life and crumbs can last 1-2 weeks. This is normal. If the baby shows no concern, do not worry. Special care breasts do not require.
Don'ts:
- massage the breasts;
- to put pressure on them, to provoke the discharge;
- lubricated by any means care.
Attention! Mastitis! It is extremely rare in a child may be a purulent mastitis. Discharge from the nipple become festering with bad smell, and the nipple itself swells and becomes inflamed.
Urgently to the doctor! Purulent mastitis without treatment can lead to loss of the breast. For girls it is fraught with aesthetic problems and difficulties with breastfeeding in the future.
Attention! Dates! If the child has breast in a slightly older age, also need to see a doctor. Swelling of the mammary glands in this case, it does not speak of a natural process, but about hormonal disorders, which should be dealt with seriously.
Genitals girls
In the same periods in girls may experience swelling of the genitals, and vaginal discharge: mucous or bloody. Experience is not necessary, it is the norm, the symptoms usually go for 3-4 days.
Attention! Care! It is important to carry out hygiene baby. Wash away her only in the direction from the vagina to the anus. During hygiene procedures need only remove discharge, which are visible from the outside. Do not need to completely clean the entire sex gap in order to avoid the risk of infection.
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The genitals of boys
In the first week after the birth of boys is sometimes observed swelling of the penis and scrotum.
Sometimes scrotum significantly increases in size and becomes elastic due to accumulation of fluid in the shell of one or both testicles. Condition usually resolves itself, does not require medical intervention or special care. It does not cause discomfort.
Attention! Dates! If the hydrocele testicular saved to 2-3 months of baby's life, or appears at a later date, you need to consult a doctor. Child examine pediatric urologist and, together with the pediatrician, who observes your child in the dynamics of birth, doctors take an optimal solution together.
Attention! Phimosis! Extremely rare boy may be born with such a strong narrowing of the foreskin that it interferes with urination, partially or completely. A newborn baby is likely to be restless, his penis may be swollen.
In the nursing home this feature usually notice right away, but if you give birth to your own, then you may need the help of a doctor, in order to distinguish this problem from the manifestations of hormonal crisis. In general, in most cases, the narrowing of the foreskin in newborn boys - a norm that by itself takes place in the first months of life.
Rash
Sometimes on the face baby rash. With hormonal crises linked two kinds of rashes.
- First - it milii, small white eruption
White head - a clogged sebaceous glands.
Milii usually appear and disappear in the first week of the crumbs of life.
Attention! Care! These acne can not be squeezed out and do not need to specifically handle any means. Simple hygiene kid would be sufficient.
- Second - acne newborn, red rash may appear on the fourth week
it is often considered allergic and put the breastfeeding mother on a rigid diet or even offer her to stop breastfeeding. However, the cause of the rash, in fact, appear to be their own adrenal hormones baby, the amount of which has not returned to normal. At this rash have special features, on the basis of which the doctor examines a child, it concludes that it is not an allergy, and "acne".
- Timing of hormonal eruption: the end of the first month of life remains. Later, during the second month, there are more "waves" podsypany, and only the third month process gradually subsides.
- Localization: face (first), neck, upper chest and back.
- View: small bright pink pimples (when allergies are red dry spots).
The doctor watched the kid in the dynamics and make recommendations for care. In most cases, it is a hormonal phenomenon also does not require treatment.
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