How much do you have to warm newborns?

Madrid, May 17.(Edizions) -

Unless medical indication, you must go for a walk with the newborn.It is good for him and also for parents from the first moment.Of course, we must not get it if the weather conditions prevent it, or in the central hours of the day, where there is very hot and it is summer.It is a matter of applying common sense.In these cases it is very important to use, yes, barriers against the sun, so that it does not give it directly, which is not good.So, to Mom and Baby Street!

One of the issues that most rounds the head of the parents, and often influenced by grandparents, is that it is necessary to warm more than normal to the little ones.To what extent is this true?

Pediatrics specializing and Master's Office in Neonatology for LaSpañola de Neonatology, Dr. José María Lloreda, clarifies to Infosalus that babies have the same cold and heat as us, on the occasion of the publication of their latest book 'Manual for first -time parents'(Arcopress).

"If you warm them up we can only have problems.Many babies are seen even with fever, irritable, desperate, for the excess of clothes they carry down the street, without the parents realizing.When they take them out of the cart they stop crying and blames the arms, when what happened to them is that they were cooking.Take it as you warm yourself, "he emphasizes.

Thus, he regrets that as a rule we usually warm our children in excess and warns that babies, except in their first hours of life, in which the temperature regulation can be compromised, have the same cold or heat as us.

"Today, babies that are born do not bathe at the moment, but are expected up to 7-8 hours, or the next day, so as not to produce temperature changes.But the baby, from 24-48 hours, is able to regulate the temperature just like an adult.Therefore, they should not be overwhelmed, "insists the neonatologist.

Now, it is known, according to Lloreda, that in the case of premature."It takes between one or two weeks to have a good thermoregulation, your skin is more immature, and does not make the same barrier function, so they are in incubators," he emphasizes.

Therefore, this expert recommends to shelter newborns a little more than the elderly, but only a little more.If we wear a shirt, they a t -shirt and a fine sweater.

"Newborns have difficulty sweating and waring them a lot produces fever.In the hospital we see many times very young children with a fever that, by taking away their clothes, this disappears.It is because they have no mechanisms to lower their temperature like us.In fact, some don't even sweat.That is why fever takes place, for non -infectious cause, especially because they are very warm, sometimes very wrapped, and as they are hot they have no escape and the temperature rises, "adds the pediatrician.

What about the hands and cold feet?

Here Lloreda also remembers that the hands and feet of newborns are always cold, even if they are well warmed."As much as she warms them, it is normal for them to remain cold, it is something that attracts the attention of the parents.You can't guide you for that to put your clothes continuously.Acras parts are always colder.In that area the circulation is different, "he emphasizes.

For example, it emphasizes that when making analytics to newborns, these are performed on the heel of the foot, for example the famous heel test, and for this the heel with their hands is heated, so that the blood is amost faithful reflex of the baby, since its circulation is slower ".