KEEPING YOUR BABY HEALTHY DURING INFANCY TO CHILDHOOD
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Cleanliness is important to the infant’s health. In the early stages the infant should be washed daily with warm water; and a bath every night, for the purpose of thoroughly cleaning the body, is highly necessary. In order, however, the water in the morning should be made tepid, while baby bathing in the evening should use water warm enough to give a comfort feeling.
If plunged into cold water, however, it should be less than a minute; for at this period, especially, the impression of cold continued for any considerable time depresses the vital energies, and starts to make the body temperature drop, and upon which its usefulness depends. With some children, indeed, there is such extreme delicacy and deficient reaction as to render the cold bath hazardous; no warm glow over the surface takes place when its use inevitably does harm: its effects, therefore, we must be really careful.
The surface of the skin should always be carefully and thoroughly rubbed dry with soft towel, indeed, the skin also takes advantages from massaging action of the mother. After a child experience a day full of activities which warm him/her body, should be washed with warm water, or when necessary, sponged with salt water from head to toe.. If the weather is very cold, the water can be made slightly tepid, but if his constitution will bear it, the water can be made cold throughout the year. We must also make bathing time a fun and enjoyable experience for children. If a child is of a delicate constitution, the cold bath during the summer is one of the best tonics that can be employed; and if living on the coast, sea-bathing will be a good alternative which offer the same benefit. The opinion that warm baths generally relax and weaken is misleading; for in this case, as in all cases when properly employed, they would give tone and vigour to the whole system; in fact, the tepid bath is to this child what the cold bath is to the more robust.
In conclusion: if the bath in any shape cannot be provided, then cold saltwater sponging must be used daily, and all the year round, so long as the effect follows its use; but when this is not the case, and this will generally occur, if the child is delicate and the weather cold, tepid vinegar and water, or tepid salt water, must be substituted.
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