Newborn skin is very delicate and soft. Each baby has different type of skin. Some have normal, some have oily, some have dry or sensitive skin. It’s little difficult to take care of dry or sensitive skin. Let’s see how to take care of dry skin in babies.
what is dry skin?
Dry skin looks flaky, rough patches on your child’s skin. Dry skin is not itchy, if dry skin becomes itchy or red then eczema has developed in the skin.
What makes your child’s skin dry?
There are many reason behind it –
1. Bathing too often and using regular or hard soap.
2. Weather can also effect your child’s skin. Low humidity might make skin dry.
3. Hard water, salt water and chlorine water.
How to take care –Use warm water for bath, instead of 15 minutes bath cut bathing time down to about 5 minutes. Use mild soap and always pat your baby skin don’t rub. Put moisturizer after bath and 2-3 time’s a day. If still it’s drying then use thicker cream Instead of lotion. Dry skin lacks moisture, offer your child plenty to drink.
lotion for dry skin –
1. Cetaphil baby daily lotion
2. Seamed baby lotion
3. Aveeno baby daily moisture lotion
4. Johnson’s baby lotion
5. Himalaya baby lotion
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