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Clothes of a Child

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

The clothing of the child shall have the same properties as that of infancy. It should help because of heat or such materials as not to irritate the skin, and so as not natural opportunity constriction.

With reference to the cause of heat, remember that too little clothing is often the best reason for the sudden attack of the active disease, and that children are exposed to thin clothing in a climate as variable as ours are frequent subjects of croup, and other dangerous affections of the air passages and lungs. On the other hand, we must not forget that too warm clothing is a source of disease, sometimes even the same diseases that come from exposure to cold, and often makes the image more sensitive to the feeling cold, especially cold air intakes in the lungs. Regulate the clothing, then, depending on the season, take the robe of the early winter, lay aside the end, because in spring and autumn that the vicissitudes of our climate are greatest, and congestive and inflammatory complaints the most frequent.

With regard to equipment, the skin at this age bear flannel next to it, and it is now not only good but necessary. It may be put out of advantage during the night, and cotton maybe substituted during the summer, the flannel being resumed early in the fall. If high fineness of the constitution, it is too irritating to the skin, fine fleecy hosiery are usually easily endured, and led many to the preservation of health.

It is extremely important that the child’s clothes should be designed so that restrictions should be placed on the movements of the body or limbs, nor injurious pressure on its size or the chest. All his muscles should have full freedom to act, their free exercise of promoting their growth and activity, and thus ensures the regularity and efficiency of the different functions of these muscles are subject.

The same considerations apply with equal force to the dress of the girl, and happily, during childhood, at least, no distinction is made in this case between the sexes. This is not the case, however, when the girl is about to emerge from this period of life, a system of dress is then adopted which has the most adverse effects on his health, and development of agency, employment is de rigueur, which impede the free and full action of the respiratory organs, being only one of many restrictions and injurious practices of it, in years, they are doomed to suffer seriously.

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Suitable Clothing For Babies

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Infants are very susceptible to cold,  an appropriate clothing of the body is essential to ensure the baby’s health. Unfortunately, an opinion is prevalent in society, that the tender child has naturally a great ability to generate heat and resistance to cold and this most popular error has arisen fatal consequences.

The power of generating heat in warm-blooded animals is at its minimum at birth, and increases successively to adult age, young animals. Instead of being warmer than adults, babies are usually a degree or two colder, and part of their bodies heat more easily, and this is a fact that can not be too well known. They show how absurd must be the folly of this system of “hardening” of the infant’s body constitution, which encourages parents to plunge the tender and delicate child into the cold bath at all seasons of the years, and freely expose it to cold currents of a cutting wind, to the east, with the lightest clothing.

The principles that should guide a parent in clothing her infant are as follows:

  1. The amount of clothing and equipment must be such as to preserve a sufficient proportion of body heat, thus governed by the season of the year, and the delicacy or strength of the child to the constitution. To do this, the parent must also guard against the practice of wrapping the child in innumerable folds of warm clothing and keeping  the infant in a very closed and warm room. Remember, nothing tends to decrease significantly the infant’s constitution that can  induce the disease, and make the skin very sensitive to the impression of cold.
  2. They must be arranged so as not to restrict the free movement of all parts of the body of the child, and so loose and easy to allow perspiration insensible to have an output, instead to be contained and absorbed by clothing and kept in contact with skin, until it gives rise to irritation.
  3. It must not irritate the delicate skin of children. In childhood, therefore, the flannel is a bit too rough, but it is desirable as the child grows, because it gives a slight stimulation of the skin, and maintains health.
  4. In its construction the dress should be as simple to quickly put on, since dressing is painful for the infant, causing it to cry, and , it can feel mentally irritating . Pins should be completely excluded, their use being hazardous through the negligence of nurses, and even through the ordinary movements of the child itself.
  5. Clothing must be changed every day. It is eminently conducive to the health that complete change of dress should be made every day. If this is not done, washing, in large measure, fail in its object, in particular by ensuring freedom from skin diseases.

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